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Focusing on breast cancer AWARENESS, awareness, EDUCATION education and throughout October FOCUSING ON BREAST CANCER AND prevention PREVENTION THROUGHOUT OCTOBER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018 VOLUME 91, NUMBER 41 WWW.CAPITALPRESS.COM $2.00 THE AUCTIONEER’S CHANT Kade Rogge trades rodeo arena for auction ring By CAROL RYAN DUMAS Capital Press URLEY, Idaho — An auctioneer’s mesmerizing chant is like a song that gets stuck in the brain and never stops playing. At least that’s the case for Kade Rogge, a 30-year-old auctioneer from southern Idaho. He says he used to drive his wife crazy, endlessly chanting around the house and in the truck. “It’s ridiculous … it never stops,” Rogge said. But it’s a compulsion that has sharpened his edge and earned him the title of Northwest Auction- eer Champion last year. He has also twice qualified to compete for the Livestock Marketing Association’s World Auctioneer Championship, the Super Bowl of the auc- tion world. He didn’t make it to the finals when he competed in 2016 or get past the lat- est qualifying competition held Oct. 1 in Kansas City, Mo., but he thinks he’s get- Carol Ryan Dumas/Capital Press ting closer. Hereford steers wait for their turn in “Obviously, I’m disappoint- the auction ring at Burley Livestock ed. I really had set high goals. Auction in Burley, Idaho, on Oct. 3. But in a way, I needed it. I’m really ready to work hard this year and do better next year,” he said. The level of talent at the competition gave him a good idea of how he needs to step up his game, and he’s eager to see his scores and the judges’ notes to home in on the particulars. B “Building your chant is a lot of putting things in and throwing things out.” Turn to ROGGE, Page 11 Kade Rogge, an auctioneer from southern Idaho Livestock Marketing Association Kade Rogge of Rupert, Idaho, com- petes in a regional qualifying event for the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 1. Competing sites vie for Willamette intermodal facility Supporters of Brooks, Millersburg locations submit final proposals Capital Press Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press File 5 22 By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Kevin Mannix, director of the Oregon Port of Willamette, supports the development of an intermodal facility to switch containers from trucks to rail in Brooks, Ore. The Oregon Department of Transportation is reviewing two proposals for the facility. Area in detail Though the locations are less than 30 miles apart, supporters of compet- ing sites for a Willamette Valley inter- modal facility claim stark differences between the two. Containers of agricultural goods would be unloaded from trucks at the Oregon facility, then loaded onto trains bound for major shipping ports along Washington’s Puget Sound. Lawmakers approved funding for the project in 2017 with the intent of having trucks hauling containers avoid Portland traffic snarls on their way to port. The choice between two Oregon towns — Brooks and Millersburg — will now be up to the state’s transpor- tation regulators, who must decide which site will receive up to $25 mil- lion in taxpayer dollars. Proponents of each location recent- ly submitted their final proposals to the Oregon Department of Transportation, which has about four months to pass on its findings to the Oregon Transportation Commission, which oversees the agen- cy and will make the ultimate choice. Selecting which project to fund will involve a multi-step process, with ODOT, the Business Oregon economic development agency and a third-party reviewer all submitting recommenda- tions to the commission, which doesn’t face a decision deadline. “It’s a look whether it’s going to be sustainable, operatable over the long term,” said Erik Havig, planning man- ager at ODOT, noting that the applicants may be asked to supply additional data. “It’s possible one gets it, or nei- ther one,” he said. The Oregon Port of Willamette, which proposed the facility be built on undeveloped farmland in Brooks, argues that its closer proximity to Port- land is an advantage because the site is more likely to draw import containers bound for the metropolitan area. Wherever it’s located, the facility will need to attract imports to make empty containers available to exporters, who otherwise may have to bear the cost of repositioning empties from elsewhere. Ocean carriers own the containers and often have policies against releas- ing them to intermodal facilities farther than 200 miles inland, said Kevin Man- nix, the Oregon Port of Willamette’s ex- ecutive director. ORE. Brooks Salem 22 223 Stayton 226 Albany 34 34 Corvallis Lebanon 5 20 99E N Turn to INTERMODAL, Page 11 99W 228 Alan Kenaga/Capital Press Oregon to craft new proposal for managing wolves Goal is fewer dead cows, fewer dead predators By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press George Plaven/Capital Press Derek Broman, state carnivore biologist for the Oregon Depart- ment of Fish & Wildlife, leads a presentation during Tuesday’s wolf plan stakeholders meeting in Salem. A new framework for managing wolves that repeat- edly prey on livestock may have the support of both Or- egon ranchers and conserva- tion groups, if the state can find enough money to pay for it. The idea came as groups sat down for the second time with a mediator on Tuesday as part of the Oregon Depart- ment of Fish & Wildlife’s ef- fort to update the state’s Wolf Conservation and Manage- ment Plan. Participants include the Oregon Cattlemen’s Associ- ation, Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Hunters Association and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, along with Or- egon Wild, Cascadia Wild- lands, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity. The facilitated meetings are designed to find common ground within the contentious wolf plan. Tuesday’s session revealed a possible breakthrough in how ranchers can peaceful- ly coexist with wolves on the landscape while minimizing attacks on livestock. Though short on specifics, the strat- egy generally calls for more site-specific wolf protections with an upfront focus on non-lethal deterrents, such as hiring range riders or stringing fladry along fences to haze the predators. Under the proposal, a wildlife biologist would meet with individual ranchers to discuss which non-lethal tools would be most effective given their location and geography. ODFW already has conflict de- terrence plans where wolves are known to be active, but these new agreements would make it even clearer what a rancher ought to be doing to best protect their animals. If wolves continue to at- tack livestock and meet the state’s definition of “chronic depredation,” then ranchers who follow the rules can re- quest killing wolves to stop the damage, which is allowed in Phase III of the wolf plan in Eastern Oregon. Wolves remain a federally protect- ed species west of highways 395, 78 and 95. Todd Nash, a Wallowa County commissioner and member of the Oregon Cat- tlemen’s Association, said the proposal would provide much-needed clarity and di- rections for ranchers to fol- low when it comes to dealing with problem wolves. “There should be no dis- pute whether you did enough non-lethal,” Nash said. Turn to WOLVES, Page 11
