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4 CapitalPress.com Friday, December 28, 2018 Voluntary plans to preserve farming in place By DON JENKINS Capital Press Voluntary guidelines for protecting wetlands, wild- life habitat and other envi- ronmentally sensitive ground are now in place in the 27 Washington counties that opted into what’s billed as an incentive-based, farm- friendly option to the Growth Management Act. The State Conserva- tion Commission recently approved the last of the work plans submitted by coun- ties. The plans are an alterna- tive to county ordinances that could have imposed large, uniform vege- tation buffers between farms and water. Farmers can partici- pate, or not, by conferring John Stuhlmiller with conserva- tion districts. Wa s h i n g - ton Farm Bureau CEO John Stuhlmiller said he hopes they will. “This has the potential to provide a very long-last- ing benefit to ag, while pro- tecting the environment,” he said. “It could change the landscape forever.” The Voluntary Steward- ship Program has been about a dozen years in the making. It stems from the conflict that arose between agriculture and the 1990 GMA’s command that counties protect sensitive environmental areas. Counties were required to adopt rules to comply with the law, and farmers in some counties faced losing the use of large chunks of their prop- erty to mandatory setbacks from water. The Legislature in 2007 put a moratorium on new county restrictions and let farm groups, environmen- tal organizations, counties and Native American tribes try to work out their differ- ences. The talks led to law- makers in 2011 giving coun- ties the option of developing plans that seek to maintain or enhance agriculture, wet- lands and habitat in their cur- rent condition. Twelve coun- ties, despite urging from the Farm Bureau, opted to not participate. The plans were years in the making. Instead of what farm groups deride as “big, dumb buffers,” the stewardship pro- gram relies on farmers work- ing with conservation districts to protect watersheds. The State Conservation WSDA to spray 1,700 acres for gypsy moths By DON JENKINS Capital Press WSDA European gypsy moth larvae feed on trees and shrubs. The state Department of Agriculture will spray a pesticide to kill newly hatched caterpillars. Lake, just east of Interstate 5 and north of Seattle, was motivated by the capture of a single Asian gypsy moth. Asian gypsy moths are potentially more dangerous. They feed more readily on evergreen trees and have a greater range. 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At WSU, O’Rourke set up a USDA-sponsored China study group that included economists from the U.S., Canada and Europe. It’s now an official interest group within the American Applied Economic Associ- ation, the national body for agricultural economists. As a private consultant, O’Rourke issued special studies on China in 2002, 2004 and 2013 and studied the Chinese produce distri- bution system for Produce Marketing Association. When the Washington apple industry was excited about full varietal access to China in 2015, O’Ro- urke warned China was “extremely unreliable” and might not be the panacea it appeared for apples, citrus, nuts, hay, beef and a host of other commodities. Those commodities hurt by current tariffs, includ- ing apples and cherries, can expect little to no relief for the next two years as Pres- ident Donald Trump holds firm and China simply waits for his presidency to end, whether that’s two or six years, O’Rourke, who turned 80 Dec. 15, said. China might say some positive things or begin to buy soybeans again, as it is now when it needs them, but it says one thing and does another, he said. The U.S. was too lax for years regarding Chi- na’s unfair trading practices and intellectual theft, O’Ro- urke said. It only embold- ened China to get away with more, he said. 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The department plans to spray 699 acres at Mar- tha Lake in Snohomish County, 270 acres on Union Hill-Novelty Hill in King County and 299 acres in Gilberton and 438 acres in Crosby in Kitsap County. European gypsy moths were trapped last summer for the third year in a year in Gilberton and Crosby, and for the second straight year in Union Hill-Novelty Hill, east of Redmond. The spraying at Martha this summer, an Asian gypsy moth had not been found in Washington since 2015. “It’s the standard response to Asian gypsy moths — to spray for even one,” department spokes- woman Karla Salp said. If the department needed another reason, the capture of a European gypsy moth nearby provided one. Salp said the department is con- cerned about cross-breed- ing between the Asian and European strains. The department in 2016 found one gypsy moth that had cross-bred, she said. Gypsy moth caterpil- lars feed on hundreds of trees and shrubs, including Christmas trees and nurs- ery plants. They lay eggs on hard surfaces, including personal belongings that are unwittingly transported across the country. Gypsy moths are established in many East- ern and Midwest states, but have not settled in the West. Gypsy moths were first detected in Washington in 1974. Since then, the agri- culture department has trapped for moths in the summer to detect out- breaks and sprayed in the spring as caterpillars emerge. In all, the department this year snared the one Asian gypsy moth and 51 European gypsy moths in 10 counties, all west of the Cascades. The spraying will occur over populated and forested areas. The department said it will host open houses in the areas to answer questions from the public. The department expects to spend $620,000 on the operation. The state will get three-quar- ters of the money from the USDA. The department trapped nine European gypsy moths in Gil- berton, six on Union Hill-Novelty Hill and four in Crosby. Commission has presented a two-year, $9.9 million bud- get proposal to implement and monitor the plans. “The real exciting part is these plans are truly non-regulatory,” Stuhlmiller said. “No farm can be forced to do anything.” The voluntary program does not change other laws. If conditions degrade in a watershed, a county can ask state and federal agencies to crack down, according to state law. The program, however, assures farmers that main- taining the environmental conditions that existed on The U.S. and Euro- pean estab- lishments were “terri- fied” when T r u m p Desmond stood up to O’Rourke China but has gradu- ally become more support- ive, realizing the magnitude of China’s transgressions, O’Rourke said. “Trump made the com- ment we didn’t start a trade war. China has been running one for 30 years,” he said. China’s militarization to control the international trade route of the South China Sea worries Japan and other neighbors that believe China is getting too strong and threatening, he said. China’s Belt and Road Initiative to increase its con- nectivity, investment and trading into Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe worries the West and Chi- na’s use of its Huawei tele- communications equipment and technology to spy on other countries “has brought people to support Trump and realize it’s not all about tar- iffs but who controls the world,” O’Rourke said. “People are putting all of these things together and saying China has to be slowed in some way, but no one knows what the next action should be. We can kick them out of the WTO (World Trade Organization), but it might not have any impact,” he said. Ironically, more Demo- crats may side with Trump on China than Republicans, O’Rourke said. “Repub- licans want free trade and Democrats now want to tie trade to the environment, social welfare and gender equality,” he said. “U.S. Apple Associa- tion has been very critical of Trump’s policies and been among the loudest com- modity groups saying, ‘We didn’t ask for these tariffs and don’t want them.’ It’s a short-term view,” O’Rourke said. Soybeans have been hit harder but are more sup- portive and wheat has been patient, but such groups could flip very fast, he said. “We don’t have the polit- ical unity to put up with the pain for long-term gain,” he said. “The odds are politi- cally, we won’t have stay- ing power. As long as the communists control China what the government says happens. 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