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‘Goat yoga’ legislation
draws support, skepticism
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Therapy and exercise classes involv-
ing livestock could be permitted in Ore-
gon’s exclusive farm use zones under a
bill that’s drawn skepticism from agri-
culture and farmland protection groups.
Proponents of “goat yoga” are urg-
ing lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 559,
which would include livestock in a land
use provision under which counties can
already allow horse-related “exercise,
therapeutic and counseling activities” in
EFU zones.
“This is a business and a cultural
activity that is about as Oregon as things
get,” said Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis,
the bill’s chief sponsor.
Livestock already inhabit EFU zones,
so they wouldn’t create conflicts in agri-
cultural areas, and the number of visi-
tors involved in such activities is natu-
rally self-limiting, Gelser said. Large
crowds of people wouldn’t be attending
goat yoga classes at all hours of the day
and night, for example.
A “glitch” in existing land use law has
caused county governments to object to
goat yoga in EFU zones because it’s
not considered “equine therapy,” which
was permitted in such areas under a bill
passed in 2018, she said.
Expanding this provision to include
livestock would boost goat yoga,
“a great vision that brought people
together, helped people engage with
livestock and connect with each other,”
Gelser said.
Lainey Dyer, who began holding
goat yoga sessions in 2016, said the idea
quickly went “viral” with more than
2,000 people signing up for a waiting
list to attend the classes.
However, Dyer said she hasn’t been
able to host goat yoga at her own farm,
first in Linn County and then in Ben-
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tle scary for them to open Pandora’s
box.”
The Oregon Farm Bureau and the
farmland preservation group 1,000
Friends of Oregon draw a distinction
between the existing equine therapy
provision and the change proposed in
SB 559.
Horseback riding is already allowed
in EFU zones, so the provision approved
in 2018 simply allowed counseling to
occur on-site in a way that’s “inciden-
tal and subordinate” to the agricultural
use, according to submitted testimony
from the organizations.
“Here, in contrast, the underlying
business is yoga,” the letter said.
The groups have urged lawmak-
ers against approving the bill because
the presence of livestock doesn’t ren-
der non-farm uses “compatible with
neighboring agricultural practices”
or the statewide goal of preserving
farmland.
The
agency
wasn’t
required to study burying a
section of the power line and
it sufficiently evaluated the
implications of grazing while
examining the route’s effects
on vegetation, said Krys-
tal-Rose Perez, attorney for
the BLM.
“The EIS is not organized
in the way plaintiffs want,
but it’s up to BLM’s dis-
cretion how to disclose that
information,” she said.
Similarly, the agency
doesn’t have to arrive at the
conclusions preferred by the
opponents, Perez said. “I
don’t think there’s any ques-
tion NEPA does not mandate
particular results.”
Beth Ginsberg, an attor-
ney for Idaho Power, said
that both the Obama and
Trump administrations have
recognized the transmission
line as a critical connection
between the electrical grids
of the Pacific West and Inter-
mountain West.
“The importance of a
project like this cannot be
overstated,” Ginsberg said.
“No shortcuts were taken.
Every I was dotted, every T
was crossed.”
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ton County, because the animals aren’t
used for producing wool, milk or meat
so the sessions aren’t considered “rais-
ing livestock.”
Dyer said she initially began bring-
ing goats to other properties where such
events could be held, which proved too
expensive, forcing her to change her
business model to “logistical and mar-
keting support” for goat yoga classes.
The restriction has reduced reve-
nues, tourism and employment in Ore-
gon farms and decreased opportunities
for people suffering from mental health
problems or undergoing chemotherapy
treatments, said Sean Scorvo, a sup-
porter of SB 559.
County governments have been
leery of adopting a broader interpreta-
tion of the “equine therapy” provision,
fearing people will use it to subvert
EFU protections, he said.
“The primary concern is this is a
slippery slope,” Scorvo said. “It’s a lit-
that would run through that
area. It deprived residents
of La Grande and Union
County of the right to weigh
in on disproportionately
adverse effects,” said David
Becker, attorney for the coa-
lition, during Feb. 22 oral
arguments.
The coalition also argues
that BLM didn’t properly
evaluate the transmission
line’s “synergistic” effects
with livestock grazing, which
the group argues will have
cumulative impacts on the
sage grouse in the region.
The BLM and Idaho
Power, the utility company
that would construct the proj-
ect, are defending an inade-
quate NEPA analysis of the
transmission line’s effects,
Becker said. “They really are
trying to piece together and
point the court in 25 differ-
ent directions and say, ‘We
deserve deference.’”
The BLM countered that
its preferred route was a per-
missible “logical outgrowth”
of alternatives examined
in a draft environmental
impact statement, or EIS, and
doesn’t require a supplemen-
tal NEPA study.
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
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Opponents of a 300-mile
transmission line in East-
ern Oregon claim the U.S.
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment’s approval of the route
across its property violated
federal laws.
The Stop B2H Coali-
tion — which is challenging
the high-voltage power line
between Boardman, Ore.,
and the Hemingway substa-
tion in Idaho — is asking
a federal judge to overturn
BLM’s permission for the
project.
Among the transmission
line’s critics, the agricul-
ture industry has raised con-
cerns about the project taking
prime farmland out of pro-
duction and impeding farm
practices.
The agency didn’t comply
with the National Environ-
mental Policy Act by select-
ing a preferred route and a
variant in 2017 that were dif-
ferent than what it had ana-
lyzed in a draft environmen-
tal study, according to the
coalition.
The newly chosen route is
problematic because it’s only
a half-mile from La Grande,
runs across an intact por-
tion of the Oregon Trail, and
passes near ecologically sen-
sitive areas, critics say.
“The public had no way to
anticipate the two new routes
WSU Extension
A bill in Oregon proposes allowing “livestock therapy,” such as goat yoga,
in exclusive farm use zones.
Court arguments heard over transmission line
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
— The Biden administra-
tion will delay a contro-
versial rollback of criti-
cal habitat protections for
the northern spotted owl
in Oregon, Washington
and Northern California in
order to review the findings,
a spokesman for the Inte-
rior Department confirmed
Monday.
On Jan. 15, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
under former Interior Secre-
tary David Bernhardt pub-
lished a final rule reducing
the owl’s critical habitat by
nearly 3.5 million acres.
The rule was supposed to
go into effect on March 16.
Instead, the Interior Depart-
ment spokesman said that
date will be pushed back
to April 15 pending further
review.
“Robust critical habi-
tat protections are essential
to ensuring the survival of
the northern spotted owl,”
the spokesman said in an
emailed statement. “The
Trump
administration’s
arbitrary and sweeping
reduction of protected areas
was conducted without pub-
lic input or scientific basis.”
The northern spotted
owl was listed as threatened
under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act in 1990, triggering
protections in Northwest
old-growth forests where
the birds nest.
Initially, the Fish and
Wildlife Service set aside
6.9 million acres of critical
habitat for the spotted owl
in 1992. That was lowered
to 5.3 million acres in 2008
and increased to 9.5 million
acres under a new recovery
plan for the species in 2012.
A group of plaintiffs
led by the American For-
est Resource Council chal-
lenged the expanded pro-
tections in court, and in
2018, the Fish and Wild-
life Service agreed to reex-
amine critical habitat for
the spotted owl as part of a
settlement.
At first, the feds pro-
posed a 205,000-acre reduc-
tion across 15 Western Ore-
gon counties. But then, just
days before leaving office
in mid-January, the Trump
administration approved a
reduction of nearly 3.5 mil-
lion acres — about one-
third of the designated crit-
ical habitat.
The reduction now
spans 21 counties in Ore-
gon, 14 in Washington and
10 in California.
About 1.4 million of
those acres are part of the
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment’s Oregon and Cal-
ifornia Revested Lands,
also known as the O&C
lands, which according to
the AFRC were meant to
be managed for sustain-
able timber production.
The previous habi-
tat designation also did
not differentiate between
what is actually spotted
owl habitat versus poten-
tial habitat, the group has
argued.
A spokesman for the
AFRC declined to com-
ment on the Biden admin-
istration’s review of the
final rule.
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