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14 CapitalPress.com November 10, 2017 Dairy/Livestock Groups sue Forest Service over winter grazing of sheep By CAROL RYAN DUMAS Capital Press Western Watersheds Proj- ect and WildEarth Guardians are challenging a U.S. Forest Service decision to allow fall and winter grazing of domes- tic sheep in the Caribou-Tar- ghee National Forest. The groups claim the grazing would expose a small population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep to diseases carried by domestic sheep that would likely extir- pate the wild herd. The lawsuit — filed by Ad- vocates for the West in U.S. District Court in Idaho — tar- gets authorization of grazing on the Snakey Canyon and Kelly Canyon allotments west of Dubois in eastern Idaho. The allotments are permit- ted to the U.S. Sheep Exper- iment Station, a century-old research facility that grazes sheep owned by the Universi- ty of Idaho. Part of its mission is to improve the sustainabil- ity of rangeland ecosystems. The sheep station is au- thorized to graze 1,200 dry ewes on the Snakey allotment from Nov. 6 through Jan. 2 and 1,000 dry ewes on the Kelly allotment from Nov. 20 through Jan. 3. The groups have also filed a motion for a temporary re- straining order to halt the grazing. They are asking the court to order the Forest Service to close the allotments until the agency completes an as- sessment, initiated in 2015, to determine the environmental impacts of grazing in the area. At issue is the possible transmission of a pathogen that causes pneumonic die- offs within bighorn popula- tions. The lawsuit cites court precedent acknowledging the high risk of disease transmis- sion and the ordered or ap- proved closures of numerous sheep allotments in Idaho. One case resulted in the closure of 70 percent of the Payette National Forest to do- mestic sheep grazing, follow- ing a court-ordered analysis under the National Environ- mental Protection Act. That analysis determined that best management practices are not sufficient to prevent contact and disease transmission. The groups contend autho- rizing domestic sheep graz- 1-800-882-6789 • www.capitalpress.com 1400 Broadway St. NE Salem, OR 97301 P.O. Box 2048 Salem, OR 97308 101 Legal Notices Associated Press File Bighorn sheep run along a steep mountainside. Two environmental groups have filed suit to stop the grazing of domestic sheep on two allotments in Eastern Idaho. ing before the Forest Service completes its environmental analysis of the Snakey and Kelly allotments violates NEPA. The agency is required by NEPA to “look before they leap” due to the concern of disease transmission, said Scott Lake, Idaho director for the Western Watersheds Proj- ect. It only takes one incident of contact to wipe out an en- tire herd because bighorn have no natural immunity to the pathogen. They didn’t evolve with it, and it’s not en- demic in the herd, he said. “Given the size of this herd, it won’t take much to reduce the population to the level extinction is imminent,” he said. The population in question stood at 36 in 2016 and has been as small as 13 in recent years. It only takes losing a few individuals to get to the point where the herd can’t re- populate itself, he said. The Forest Service deemed the risk of disease transmis- sion unacceptable in its deci- sion on the Payette. The envi- ronmental groups are hoping the judge is going to recog- nize the unacceptable risk and potential for irreparable harm to the eastern Idaho herd, he said. “We have science on our side and some precedent, too,” he said. Both the precedent and the science behind it are question- able, said Cindy Siddoway, an industry leader, who with her husband runs a sixth-genera- tion sheep operation of 10,000 breeding stock in the area. The best science and best modeling available weren’t used in the Payette decision, and the Forest Service ac- knowledged it did not consult with everyone, she said. The Forest Service ap- pointed an advisory commit- tee, which didn’t include the livestock industry, to evalu- ate the risk of disease trans- mission. And the evaluation didn’t include studies, such as those from USDA Agricultur- al Research Service, conclud- ing disease transmission was unknown, she said. District Judge Lynn Win- mill ordered the committee’s report not be used in making decisions and found the For- est Service in contempt of court for failing to abide by that order. “We really don’t have the final science on this,” Siddo- way said. It’s not black and white, she said, adding that there are bighorn die-offs in places without domestic sheep. The sheep industry believes there are other factors involved that trigger die-offs, such as stress, genes, immunity levels and bighorn carriers. Disease transmission has occurred in research where bighorn interact with penned domestic sheep in a staged setting, but that’s not neces- sarily what would happen in the wild, she said. “Just keeping them (do- mestic sheep) away is not go- ing to solve the problem. We need to know what the trig- gers are … why some die and some don’t,” she said. 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The barrels also finished at $1.7150, up a penny on the week, 14 1/2-cents below a year ago, but 2 1/2-cents above their Oct. 2 perch. The blocks dropped 2 1/4-cents Monday and plunged 6 cents Tuesday, to $1.6325, as traders studied the GDT. The barrels were un- changed Monday but rolled a penny and a half lower Tues- day, to $1.70, 6 3/4-cents atop the blocks. Dairy Market News re- ports that cheese demand has ebbed slightly for some Mid- west cheesemakers. Western cheese production is steady, supplies are substantial, but not causing major concern. International sales are good and manufacturers hope that will help reduce inventories. Cash butter fell to $2.2225 last Thursday but closed Friday at $2.2325, down 7 cents on the week and 34 cents above a year ago. The butter slipped three-quarters Monday and lost a penny and a half Dairy Markets Lee Mielke Tuesday, slipping to $2.21, lowest price since May 10, 2017. Cream continues to be available for Central butter producers and is finding its way to upper Midwestern churns from across the na- tion. Contacts suggest weak- ening European butter mar- kets are bringing U.S. prices down. Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at 72 cents per pound, down 3 cents on the week and 12 3/4-cents below a year ago. The powder inched up three-quarters Monday but fell a penny and a half Tuesday, to 71 1/4-cents per pound, lowest spot price since April 12, 2016. GDT drops 3.5 percent Tuesday’s Global Dairy Trade auction saw its weight- ed average for products of- fered drop 3.5 percent, fol- lowing a 1.0 percent decline Oct. 17 and a 2.4 percent de- scent Oct. 3. Whole milk powder led the declines, down 5.5 per- cent, following a 0.5 per- cent loss Oct. 17. Butter was down 3.6 percent following a 2.5 percent dip in the last event. Cheddar was off 2.8 percent, after inching 0.1 percent lower last time. 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GDT Cheddar cheese equat- ed to $1.8146 per pound U.S. and compares to Tues- day’s CME block Cheddar at $1.6325. GDT skim milk powder averaged 82.48 cents per pound and whole milk powder averaged $1.2937. CME Grade A nonfat dry milk price closed Tuesday at 71 1/4-cents per pound. Benchmark up 33 cents The nation’s October benchmark Class III milk price climbed to $16.69 per hundredweight, up 33 cents from September and $1.87 above October 2016. It is the highest Class III since Febru- ary 2017 and equates to $1.44 per gallon, up from $1.27 a year ago. The 10 month Class III average is at $16.19, up from $14.42 a year ago and compares to $15.98 in 2015. The November Class III futures contract was trad- ing late Tuesday morning at $16.45 and December was at $15.45, with nothing above $16 until September 2018. The October Class IV price is $14.85, down $1.01 from September but $1.19 above a year ago, and the lowest Class IV since May 2017. 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