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Friday, June 26, 2020 CapitalPress.com 5 Judge in Seattle to rule on wolf removal USDA pays $2.9 billion in aid to farmers, mostly in Midwest By SIERRA DAWN MCCLAIN Capital Press In the three weeks since USDA opened applications for its $16 billion farm aid program, the department has disbursed $2.9 billion in direct payments to more than 220,000 farmers nationwide whose businesses were dis- rupted by COVID-19. As of June 15, USDA’s weekly report shows the agency has approved $129 million in payments to Cal- ifornia producers, $52 mil- lion to Idaho producers, $27 million to Washington pro- ducers and $23 million to Oregon producers. The program, known as the Coronavirus Food Assis- tance Program, or CFAP, is handled by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency offices nationwide. “We’re very appreciative for aid to farmers through this tough time,” said Shelby Myers, economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation. Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press Dairy cows in Cloverdale, Ore. Farmers across the nation have received $2.9 billion so far in direct federal aid for COVID-19, but many farms are still in need of help. By far, the biggest chunk of aid is flowing to the Mid- west. Outpacing their coun- terparts in every other state, Iowa farmers have received around $314 million, fol- lowed by Nebraska produc- ers at $207 million, and Illi- nois, Kansas and Minnesota each with more than $150 million. Agricultural experts say Midwest farms are likely receiving more aid for a few reasons. First, measured by popu- lation, many Midwest states have more farms. Accord- ing to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, for example, Oregon has around 37,000 farms, while Iowa has more than 87,000 farms. This difference in the number of operations trans- lated into more applicants from Midwest states. Cali- fornia and Idaho had a little over 2,000 applicants each; Oregon and Washington had By DON JENKINS Capital Press around 1,000 each. In contrast, more than 30,300 Iowa producers have applied. Agricultural finance experts say fewer applica- tions from Western farmers may also have to do with less USDA infrastructure in the region. Washington state, for example, has 25 Farm Ser- vice Agency offices where farmers can apply for aid, while Iowa has more than 40. A third reason is that many West Coast crops, such as apples, several types of wheat, nursery stock and numerous specialty crops were excluded from the orig- inal aid package, so many Western farmers were ineli- gible to apply. Even among Western states, some farmers have expressed concern that cer- tain states have received more aid than others. For example, California and Idaho have similar numbers of applicants, but Idaho pro- ducers have received less than half as much aid. WDFW to target Togo wolf pack By DON JENKINS Capital Press Washington Fish and Wildlife plans to kill as many as two wolves in a pack that has a history of attacking cattle in the Ket- tle River range in northeast Washington. The Togo pack, which has four adult members, injured a calf, the depart- ment confirmed June 6. It was the first attack of the year by the pack, but the sev- enth in the last 10 months. The department’s protocol calls for considering lethal removal after four attacks in 10 months. Fish and Wildlife Direc- tor Kelly Susewind autho- rized lethal control June 19. The department was to start the operation Tuesday. One wolf in the pack is wearing a radio-tracking collar placed on it by the Colville tribe. Fish and Wildlife said the rancher whose calf was WDFW A wolf in the Togo pack in Ferry County in northeast Washington. The pack has attacked another calf. injured has tried to prevent the attacks. Range-riders have watched the cattle reg- ularly. Twice, a range-rider camping near the herd hazed wolves at night by yell- ing, shining a spotlight and shooting into the air. The department said kill- ing the wolves would not harm the state’s goal of hav- ing wolves spread through- out the state. Most of Wash- ington’s wolves are now concentrated in northeast Washington, particularly in Ferry and Stevens counties. By waiting until Tuesday to start the lethal-removal operation, Fish and Wild- life fulfills a pledge it gave a Thurston County judge in 2018. The delay gives wolf advocates time to seek an emergency court order stop- ping the operation. The Center for Biolog- ical Diversity, which has sought such an order in pre- vious cases, issued a state- ment, saying the depart- ment was rushing to lethal removal. The organization, however, did not plan to seek a restraining order, an attorney for the group said Monday. In a previously sched- uled hearing, wolf advocates were due to argue in King County Superior Court on Monday that Fish and Wild- life’s lethal-removal proto- col for wolves was imple- mented without enough public comment or environ- mental study. Fish and Wildlife killed one Togo wolf in 2018 because of the pack’s attacks on cattle. Susewind reautho- rized lethal control last sum- mer, but no wolves were removed. A judge in Seattle said Monday he may rule within two weeks on whether the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife can continue shooting wolves to protect livestock. King County Superior Court Judge John McHale presided over a 3 1/2-hour video conference on the legality of lethal control in the eastern one-third of Washington, where wolves are not federally protected. Claire Loebs Davis, an attorney for wolf advo- cates, asked the judge to bar Fish and Wildlife from killing wolves until the department studies the environmental conse- quences and firms up its rationale. Fish and Wildlife’s lawyer, Amy Dona, asked McHale to reject what she called an invitation to micromanage wolf recov- ery. The department needs lethal control to foster tol- erance in northeast Wash- ington, she said. “It’s full of wolves.” Wolf advocates and environmental groups are challenging Fish and Wild- life’s killing of wolves on several fronts. Monday’s court hearing was the most extensive yet on whether the department should sus- pend the practice and con- duct a public review that could take years. King County residents John Huskinson and Gene- vieve Jaquez-Schumacher, and Tim Coleman, direc- tor of the Kettle Range Conservation Group, filed the lawsuit last August to prevent Fish and Wildlife from removing the OPT wolf pack in Ferry County. McHale issued a tempo- rary restraining order, but it was a few hours after the department had eliminated the pack. The hearing Monday was on the broader issue of whether Fish and Wild- life has skirted the State Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Pro- cedure Act. At the end of the hearing, McHale asked both sides to submit their desired conclusions. He said he hoped to rule within a week after that. Fish and Wildlife argues it doesn’t have to do an environmen- tal review before remov- ing dangerous wildlife, including wolves. Dona said the department con- cluded shooting the OPT pack was the only way to stop chronic attacks on cattle. “We were beyond chronic. We were in poten- tial hyper-chronic mode,” she said. The cattle were grazing in the Colville National Forest and belonged to the Diamond M Ranch — identified in court as “Pro- ducer X.” Fish and Wild- life also culled packs on the same grazing allotment the previous three years. Loebs Davis said the department was refusing to recognize a brutal cycle and reconsider its approach to wolf management. She argued the ranch took minimal steps to pre- vent the attacks, a claim Dona disputed. The depart- ment determined putting more riders on the allot- ment wouldn’t stop the depredations, Dona said. “Range-riding is not a silver bullet. They’re not everywhere. They’re not cattle baby-sitters,” she said. Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susew- ind decides when to use lethal control, guided by what the department calls a non-binding “protocol.” Wolf advocates argue the protocol amounts to a pro- gram that should have been subjected to public vetting, like other govern- ment actions. The protocol calls for Susewind to consider lethal removal after three depre- dations in 30 days or four in 10 months. It’s not a firm line. The department says it considers whether the attacks can be curbed with- out shooting wolves. Susewind on Friday authorized the killing of up to two wolves in the Togo pack in Ferry County. 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