4 CapitalPress.com Friday, December 24, 2021 WDFW warns solar USDA undersecretary visits with Oregon farmers reeling from disasters farm could be lights out for sage grouse By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press WOODBURN, Ore. — Help is coming for Oregon farmers and ranchers who suffered through multiple natural disasters in 2021. Robert Bonnie, USDA undersecretary for farm production and conser- vation, paid a visit to the state with U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., on Dec. 13 for a pair of roundtable meetings — one in Wood- burn and one in Salem — to discuss new funding approved for disaster relief, as well as drought and wild- fire mitigation. The meetings coincided with a special legislative session where Oregon law- makers passed a $100 mil- lion drought relief package that includes $40 million in forgivable loans to keep farmers afloat while they wait for federal aid. Bonnie said the USDA will begin rolling out disas- ter assistance in 2022. Con- gress approved $10 billion in September for the agency to expand its Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Plus Program, or WHIP+, which for the first time will cover crop losses due to extreme heat. “Our hope is to move this winter on invest- ments,” Bonnie told the roundtable in Woodburn. “We want to move quickly, and the agency has been moving quickly. ... There’s work you have to do to train S273512-1 LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 87 Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be sold, for cash to the highest bidder, on 12/27/2021. The sale will be held at 10:00am by COPART OF WASHINGTON INC 2885 NATIONAL WAY WOODBURN, OR 2014 FORD MUSTANG 2DR VIN = 1ZVBP8AMXE5310295 Amount due on lien $1535.00 Reputed owner(s) DAMON M LOMAS OREGON STATE CREDIT UNION If built, a 2,390-acre solar farm on Badger Mountain in north-central Washing- ton could finish off the state’s greater sage grouse popula- tion, the Department of Fish and Wildlife warns. The mountain, near East Wenatchee and about 100 miles east of Seattle, is in Douglas County, the grouse’s “last stronghold” in the state, according to Fish and Wild- life regional director Brock Hoenes. In a letter this month to the Energy Facility Site Evalua- tion Council, Hoenes wrote that a solar farm on the moun- tain would be a significant risk to the grouse’s survival. Although Aurora Solar LLC’s solar panels would cover mostly unirrigated farmland, the sage grouse rely on wheat fields, as well as shrub-steppe, Hoenes stated. “The mosaic of habitats, including dryland wheat, are utilized by all stages of sage grouse for rearing, foraging, migration and movement,” he wrote. An Aurora Solar spokes- man responded Monday in an email. “We are in the early stages of working with EFSEC and the WDFW to determine how best to go about resolving WDFW con- cerns,” he said. Aurora Solar applied to EFSEC in October after being blocked by a Douglas County ordinance that bans solar proj- ects within 7 miles of habitat for any state protected species. Although not federally listed, greater sage grouse are a state endangered species. The imperiled bird poses an obsta- cle for building solar farms east of the Cascades. Gov. Jay Inslee’s latest bud- get proposal includes more money for Fish and Wildlife to reconcile solar farms and sage grouse recovery. Fish and Wildlife counted 699 greater sage grouse in the state this year. Douglas County has the only self-sus- taining population. The company said in a pre- sentation to EFSEC that Bad- ger Mountain is ideal for a solar farm. It’s flat and sunny and 87% of the proposed proj- ect area is farmland. The company surveyed the area in May and reported seeing no sage grouse or sage grouse droppings. Hoenes said the survey was inadequate. There is longstanding evidence that sage grouse occupy the pla- teau, he said. Last spring, after wild- fires burned other sage grouse habitat in the county, 29 male sage grouse were seen on Badger Mountain. Accounting for females, Badger Mountain likely had about 75 grouse, Hoenes said. The only greater sage grouse known in Washington outside Douglas County are 24 males in Yakima County and three males in Franklin County. Hoenes recommended the solar farm be moved or undergo a more thorough environmental review to con- sider options, including not building the solar farm. Aurora says it has lined up leases with five property own- ers and is negotiating with the state Department of Natural Resources to lease land now leased for wheat farming. If EFSEC approves the project, its recommendation will go to Inslee for a final decision. The governor has made climate change a focus of his administration, spur- ring renewable energy pro- posals east of the Cascades. Aurora Solar is owned by Avangrid Renewables, which is part of the Iber- dola Group, a Spanish com- pany that describes itself as a global leader in renewable energy. By DON JENKINS Capital Press George Plaven/Capital Press Kyle Fessler, center, who oversees greenhouse production for Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas, leads a morning tour for U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, left, and Robert Bon- nie, USDA undersecretary for farm production and conservation. your employees on how these dollars are going to go out. That’s already been happening.” The morning started with a tour of Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas, a large operation with more than 200 employees and 225 acres in production. Kyle Fessler, who over- sees greenhouse production for the family farm, said Mother Nature posed seri- ous challenges this year. It started with a major ice storm that hit the Willamette Valley in February, causing their outdoor-grown nurs- ery stock to fold over like candy canes. Then came a historic heat wave in late June, with temperatures reach- ing well above 100 degrees for several days straight and scorching ornamental plants. “A lot of it was rework- ing the plants to get them to salability,” Fessler said. $50 million worth of dam- age to the Oregon nursery industry, and wiped out 50% of the state’s black- berries and raspberries. Heavy ice that blanketed the Willamette Valley also wreaked havoc on older hazelnut orchards, snap- ping branches and in some cases splitting whole trees to the trunk. Yet these kinds of spe- cialty crops are often left out of relief programs in the Farm Bill, which is written more for commod- ity crops like corn and soybeans. Mary Anne Cooper, vice president of pub- lic policy for the Oregon Farm Bureau, told Bon- nie she received calls from dozens of farmers who don’t qualify for USDA programs. Each time, there seems to be a different and unique reason. “It starts to feel a little bit challenging,” Cooper said. “Is there something that will overall make the programs more workable for specialty crops?” Bonnie said those lon- ger discussions will take place as Congress writes a new farm bill. In the mean- time, he said the USDA is working to make its pro- grams as flexible as possi- Specialty crops State and farm lead- ers met with Bonnie and Schrader following the tour, urging the federal gov- ernment to provide greater assistance in the face of mounting disasters. The summer “heat dome” caused an estimated ble for all producers. “We’re happy to look at flexibilities we can do now,” he said. “If there are particularly challenging issues, we’re more than happy to engage on that as well.” The Oregon Depart- ment of Agriculture will administer the state’s $40 million disaster loan pro- gram, covering crop dam- age that occurred in 2021. Loans will be forgiven if producers do not qualify for federal assistance. Schrader, who rep- resents part of the agricul- ture-rich Willamette Val- ley, said he is determined to close these gaps in cov- erage in the next farm bill. “We’re going to have to write these disaster mit- igation titles to actually reflect the fact that, maybe you didn’t lose the whole tree, but you lost a ton of branches and your hazel- nut production is down 30%. Maybe you didn’t lose all your blueberries — the vines are still alive — but the crop has been destroyed by 80% because of the excessive heat that’s out there,” Schrader said. “A lot of these things aren’t recognized in the disaster programs right now.” LEGAL PURSUANT TO ORS CHAPTER 87 Notice is hereby given that the following vehicle will be sold, for cash to the highest bidder, on 01/03/2022. 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