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NW Ag Show returns to state fairgrounds
Show location
At a glance
Jackman-Long Building and Columbia
and Cascade halls at the Oregon State
Fairgrounds & Expo Center
2330 17th Street N.E., Salem, Ore. 97301
What: The Northwest Ag
Show
Show dates
Wed., Jan. 16, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Thurs., Jan. 17, 9 a.m.- 7 p.m.
Fri., Jan. 18, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Where: Oregon State Fair-
grounds and Expo Center,
2330 17th St. NE, Salem,
Ore.
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• Phone: (800) 882-6789
• Email: events@eomediagroup.com/
• Online: northwestagshow.com/
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When: Wednesday, Jan. 16,
through Friday, Jan. 18
Admission
Prices reflect $2 off our regular admission
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Sales & Simplicity by Hayden Homes.
Adults: $3
Seniors: $1
Children (12 & under): Free
Friday: Free admission
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SALEM — The North-
west Ag Show returns to the
Oregon State Fair and Expo-
sition Center on Jan. 16-18.
It is the fi rst time in more
than 45 years that the show
is being held in Salem —
and a fi rst for Capital Press
and its parent company,
the EO Media Group. The
newspaper is producing this
year’s show.
The 2019 edition of the
Northwest Ag Show will
feature Oregon’s major
farm-equipment
retailers
and a whole slate of new
activities, ranging from sem-
inars and presentations to a
career expo.
In addition, the show will
serve as the signature event
and launch of the fi rst-ever
Salem Ag Week, a week-
long celebration of agricul-
ture in the heart of the Wil-
lamette Valley.
“This has been a learn-
ing experience for us,” Joe
Beach, editor and publisher
of the Capital Press, said.
“The people at the (Ore-
gon State) Fair have been an
immense help in setting up
this fi rst show.”
In addition to the Ag
Show, Salem Ag Week
2019 Northwest
Ag Show moves
to Salem
17th Street N.E.
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activities include:
• Oregon Aglink’s annual
meeting, which will be Jan.
17 in the fairgrounds’ Cas-
cade Hall.
• Oregon Agriculture in
the Classroom’s fi rst ever
Agricultural Career Expo,
which will be Jan. 18, also in
Cascade Hall.
• The Salem Area Cham-
ber of Commerce’s SAIF
Agri-Business
Banquet,
which will be Jan. 18 at the
Salem Convention Center,
200 Commercial St. S.E.
• The Oregon Dairy Prin-
cess-Ambassador program’s
coronation on Jan. 19. It will
also be at the Salem Con-
vention Center.
More than 110 vendors,
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Thursday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Friday
Jackman-Long Hall at the Oregon State Fair and
Exposition Center is one of several building that will
house Northwest Ag Show exhibitors, seminars and
presentations.
ranging from large-scale
farm-equipment
dealers
to insurance and fi nancial
companies, vineyard sup-
ply companies and others
will showcase their goods
and services in two halls, the
Jackman-Long Building and
adjacent Columbia Hall, and
on the grounds at the Fair
and Exposition Center.
Seminars on topics such
as farm fi nancing, estate
planning, worker safety,
employment law, water
rights and drone technol-
ogy will take place in Cas-
cade Hall on Jan. 16-17. Par-
ticipating organizations said
they were excited to be part
of the launch of Salem Ag
Week and to partner with the
Northwest Ag Show.
“We are looking forward
to where our members are
able to come to the annual
meeting and also enjoy
everything the Northwest Ag
Show has to offer,” said Mal-
lory Phelan, executive direc-
tor of Oregon Aglink, which
moved its annual meeting
from Woodburn to Salem to
be part of the proceedings.
Capital Press moved the
show from Portland, where
it was held from the early
1970s through 2016, primar-
ily because of traffi c issues,
a decision that has elicited
widespread support from
vendors and others associ-
ated with the show.
“We have received really
Admission: $3, $1 for
seniors. Children under
12 are free. On Friday, the
admission is free for all
attendees.
Website: www.northwe-
stagshow.com
good response,” said Michael
Keith, marketing manager
for the EO Media Group
and the Northwest Ag Show
director. “I think people are
excited that we are having it
in Salem, just because it is
easier to get into and out of
the venue.”
Also, Keith said, with
Marion County being the
No. 1 agricultural county in
Oregon, “It just makes sense
to have the show here in
Salem.”
Wolf attacks continue to frustrate SW Oregon rancher
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
The start of the new year
was like déjà vu for cat-
tle rancher Ted Birdseye in
southwest Oregon.
Birdseye, who runs the
Mill-Mar Ranch in rural
Jackson County, awoke on
Jan. 1 to fi nd an injured,
5-month-old calf about 200
yards from his house, with 2
feet of intestine sticking out
of its backside. Wildlife offi -
cials arrived later in the day
to investigate, and later con-
fi rmed the calf was attacked
by wolves from the Rogue
pack. It was almost a year ago
to the day that Birdseye lost
his fi rst animal to the Rogue
pack, a 250-pound calf par-
tially eaten in a fenced pas-
ture on the property. The
Courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
OR-7 trots past a trail camera carrying what a wildlife
biologist said is an elk leg in the Southern Oregon
Cascades, April 14, 2017. Oregon’s famous wandering
wolf formed the Rogue pack in 2014 and is responsible
for a recent spate of livestock attacks in Jackson and
Klamath counties.
wolves returned again the
following week, killing and
eating two more calves down
to the rib cage and spinal
column.
All told, wolves killed
at least fi ve calves and one
guard dog, a Tibetan Mas-
tiff, at the ranch in 2018. The
pack was also blamed for kill-
ing four calves in neighbor-
ing Klamath County in Octo-
ber, and at least one heifer at
another ranch northeast of
Medford, Ore., in November.
“It’s just been the same old
story,” Birdseye said during a
recent interview. “It’s not a
good situation.”
The Rogue pack was
started by OR-7, the famous
“wandering wolf” that trav-
eled from northeast Oregon
to California before fi nding a
mate in the southern Oregon
Cascades. As of 2017, the
pack was estimated to have
seven members, including
two new pups that survived
to the end of the year.
For Birdseye, living
alongside the wolves has
forced him to get creative
protecting his small herd of
cattle, while causing plenty
of sleepless nights.
When the wolves howl at
night, Birdseye said it puts
him on edge. Despite lining
the perimeter of the ranch
with fl adry — lines of rope
mounted along the top of a
fence with nylon fl ags that
fl ap in the wind to scare off
predators — and hanging
automatic fl ashing lights, the
pack continues to prey on his
livestock. Biologists with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice have even camped over-
night at the ranch to haze
wolves when they approach.
“I don’t really know what
Wolf: It’s time to move on to the next step
Continued from Page 1
Rodger Huffman, who
ranches near Catherine
Creek in Union County, said
the “chronic depredation”
standard of two confi rmed
kills in nine months is a win
for the livestock commu-
nity. He was also pleased
the agency will continue to
make GPS collars a priority
to help ranchers know when
wolves are around their
pastures.
“I appreciate where we’re
at with a lot of these pieces,”
Huffman said.
Jim Akenson, conserva-
tion director for the Oregon
Hunters Association, said at
some point the state needs
to look at specifi c wolf man-
agement zones with hard
population caps to protect
deer and elk herds, but for
now he is comfortable mov-
ing forward with the pro-
posed plan revisions.
“It’s time to move on to
the next step,” Akenson said.
Environmental groups,
however, claim the Wolf
Plan is now weaker than it
was before they started, with
ODFW cowing to industry
demands and racing to kill
wolves in response to live-
stock depredation.
Amaroq Weiss, West
Coast wolf advocate for the
Center for Biological Diver-
sity, said the mediation pro-
cess “failed miserably,
because wildlife managers
wouldn’t listen to the most
recent science or Oregon res-
idents who say we need to
stop killing wolves.”
“We’ve tried for years to
come to an agreement, but
the state won’t fi x its broken,
outdated approach to wolf
management,” Weiss said.
ODFW is supposed to
update the Wolf Plan every
fi ve years to refl ect the wolf
population and distribution
statewide. According to the
most recent annual report in
2017, Oregon has at least 124
known wolves, and the min-
imum population has risen
every year since 2009.
The latest Wolf Plan
review began in 2015. The
Fish and Wildlife Com-
mission was set to adopt a
revised plan in April 2018,
but after hearing from oppo-
nents on both sides of the
issue, they postponed voting
and ordered ODFW to try
and build more compromise.
That is when the agency
hired Deb Nudelman, a pro-
fessional mediator with the
fi rm Kearns & West in Port-
land, and convened the work
group to begin negotiations.
At one point, it appeared
they were on the verge of a
breakthrough, discussing a
framework for ranch-specifi c
wolf deterrence plans empha-
sizing non-lethal deterrence.
Hurn said it was a good idea
in theory, but would have
required the agency to hire
more than 20 new full-time
staff across the state, costing
more than $3 million.
“That’s a big request,”
Hurn said.
In her proposed budget,
Gov. Kate Brown does set
aside roughly $1.2 million to
help implement the updated
Wolf Plan. The money would
go toward hiring fi ve new
full-time employees, who
would help with wolf surveys,
collaring and assisting ranch-
ers with non-lethal deterrents.
Environmental
groups
the answer is,” Birdseye
said. “There may be a place
for wolves, like Yellowstone
(Park), but they sure don’t
belong in my backyard, eat-
ing my property.”
Unlike the majority of the
state’s wolf population in
Eastern Oregon, the species
is still federally protected
under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act west of highways
395, 78 and 95. That limits
options for management to
strictly non-lethal tools.
Birdseye said he has
worked with staff and volun-
teers from wolf conservation
and advocacy groups, includ-
ing Defenders of Wildlife, a
nonprofi t organization that
has helped to clean up animal
carcasses and maintain fl adry
at the ranch.
Suzanne Stone, senior
Northwest representative for
the group, said it was a carcass
that initially lured the Rogue
pack out of the woods and
down to the ranch last year.
“Wolves are scavengers,
and they can smell dead
livestock from miles away,
which for them is like ringing
the dinner bell,” Stone said.
Looking forward, Stone
said they will consider try-
ing other wolf deterrents at
the ranch, including infl at-
able “tube men” powered by
electrical fans. The product
is normally used to advertise
outside stores and businesses
in cities.
While it may be “outside
the box” for predator con-
trol, Stone said at least one
rancher in northeast Oregon
has had success with tube
men keeping wolves away
that had previously preyed on
his llamas.
“There’s
really
cre-
ative, effective ways to pre-
vent these kinds of livestock
attacks, but you have to be
proactive and you have to
able to implement the right
one for the right situation,”
Stone said. “That is what
we’re trying to fi gure out
now.”
Grass Expertise.
sharply criticized other parts
of the plan, such as lower-
ing the proposed defi nition
of “chronic depredation” in
Eastern Oregon from three
conformed attacks over 12
months to two attacks in nine
months. Once that condition
is met, ODFW can consider
killing wolves from these
packs, as it did with the Pine
Creek pack in Baker County
in 2018.
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