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Friday, July 15, 2022
Wildlife commission nixes
wolf rule sought by Inslee
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Union Pacific Railroad Co.
A Union Pacific train. The Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency that regu-
lates transportation, has ordered Union Pacific Railroad Co. to improve its service to
Foster Farms’ chicken farms in California.
Union Pacific ordered to improve rail
service to Foster Farms’ operations
By SIERRA DAWN McCLAIN
Capital Press
The Surface Transporta-
tion Board, a federal agency
that regulates transportation,
has ordered Union Pacific
Railroad Co. to improve its
service to Foster Farms, a
major chicken grower and
manufacturer.
The board’s order came
after complaints from the
poultry company that Union
Pacific wasn’t delivering
feed on schedule to the com-
pany’s chicken farms in
California.
Foster Farms told the
board in a letter on June
15 that since February it
has faced challenges get-
ting the animal feed it needs
— primarily corn meal —
from the Midwest to Foster
Farms’ facilities in Traver
and Turlock, Calif.
Foster Farms wrote in
the letter that its Califor-
nia facilities rely on “huge
quantities of corn” that must
be delivered by rail each
week to feed chickens. The
company says that in the
past, Union Pacific deliv-
ered the feed “with reason-
able regularity,” but since
February it has failed to do
so. Foster Farms said it has
recently seen a “substantial,
measurable deterioration of
rail service.”
UP’s service failures,
wrote the poultry company,
“have resulted in numer-
ous instances where Fos-
ter Farms has suspended
its production and distribu-
tion of feed for tens of thou-
sands of dairy cattle and tens
of millions of chickens and
turkeys, which consume
corn meal supplied by Fos-
ter Farms.”
As a result, the company
said, “millions of chickens
will be killed and other live-
stock will suffer because of
UP’s service failures.”
Foster Farms wrote that
it has also incurred “consid-
erable costs” attempting to
find alternative means and
transportation modes to ship
corn to its facilities.
Foster Farms asked the
board to order UP to prior-
itize the movement of 100-
car unit trains of corn to Fos-
ter Farms’ facilities.
On June 17, the board
agreed to Foster Farms’
request, issuing an emer-
gency service order that
requires UP to perform on
its service commitments and
prioritize corn shipments
to Foster Farms’ facilities.
The board wrote that an
emergency order was “war-
ranted” while the agency
investigates the underly-
ing issues and reviews the
remainder of Foster Farms’
petition.
Under the emergency
order, the service improve-
ments include prioritizing
the assignment of crews to
Foster Farms’ unit trains at
loading points, prioritizing
Foster Farms’ unit trains on
the UP system and assigning
and retaining sufficient loco-
motives to Foster Farms’
trains so that there’s enough
locomotive power to make
the long-distance trips from
the Midwest to California.
On June 28, Foster Farms
requested that the board con-
tinuing monitoring UP for at
least the initial 30-day emer-
gency period.
July 1, the board granted
this request and agreed to
continue monitoring the
situation.
Foster Farms did not
immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Union Pacific Railroad
Co. did respond but declined
to comment on details.
“I appreciate (the Capi-
tal Press) reaching out, but
we are in our quiet period
before our (second quar-
ter) earnings announcement
and cannot comment,” said
Robynn Tysver, spokes-
woman for Union Pacific.
WSDA proposes Japanese beetle quarantine
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Nursery
plants
and
hop bines will have to be
checked or treated for Jap-
anese beetles before leav-
ing a 49-square-mile area
in Central Washington
under a quarantine pro-
posed by the state Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
The
quarantine
responds to the state’s
first-ever infestation of
Japanese beetles, a pest
that damages more than
300 ornamental plants and
agricultural crops.
The quarantine will
affect nurseries, hop grow-
ers, landscapers, construc-
tion companies and other
businesses in and around
Grandview in Yakima
County.
The department trapped
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A Japanese beetle clings
to a plant in Yakima Coun-
ty, Wash.
thousands of beetles there
last year and this spring
began what it expects will
be a multi-year campaign
to eradicate the beetles
with an insecticide.
In addition to applying
chemicals, the department
has drawn up rules for
moving out of the quaran-
tined area soil, plants and
yard waste that could har-
bor beetles.
Some 59 businesses
will be affected, including
seven hop producers, the
department estimates.
The department has
described various treat-
ment options for vegeta-
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tion and the top 8 inches
of soil, such as heating the
material to 140 degrees for
one hour.
Agriculture department
spokeswoman
Amber
Betts said Wednesday the
department and city of
Grandview are setting up a
site for residents and busi-
nesses to drop off regu-
lated material.
The area includes 4,838
acres of hops. The depart-
ment proposes to trap for
beetles in hop fields. If
beetles are found, hop
bines must be treated with
a pesticide before leaving
the area.
Other regulated items
include non-commercial
compost, un-shucked corn,
cut flowers and sod.
The department said it
did not identify any corn
or flower producers that
would be affected by the
quarantine.
The department ini-
tially proposed regulating
manure, corn silage, and
all compost and soil. The
department narrowed the
quarantine’s scope after
surveying businesses.
Regulating those items
would cost businesses a
lot of money, according
to the department, which
said it excluded every-
thing with a relatively low
risk of spreading Japanese
beetles.
The department will
take comments on the pro-
posed quarantine until
Aug. 2. Comments can be
emailed to wsdarulescom-
ments@agr.wa.gov.
The department ten-
tatively plans to adopt
the quarantine Aug. 9.
It would take effect one
month later.
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The Washington Fish
and Wildlife Commission
on July 8 voted down a rule
specifying what ranchers
must do to protect livestock
before the state will resort to
shooting wolves.
The 5-4 vote ended a pro-
cess that began nearly two
years ago with Gov. Jay Ins-
lee, prodded by the Center
for Biological Diversity and
other groups, ordering the
department to write a rule.
The groups alleged that
Fish and Wildlife relied too
much on lethal control and
too little on non-lethal mea-
sures. The governor echoed
those concerns.
Some
commissioners
supported a rule. A majority,
however, voted to retain the
current informal policy that
gives the department leeway
in setting expectations for
ranchers.
Fish and Wildlife Direc-
tor Kelly Susewind said
the department — with or
without a rule — will con-
tinue working with ranch-
ers to improve nonlethal
safeguards.
“We have a bunch of
staff, brilliant staff, working
on that every day,” he said.
“We will always look for
better ways of doing it.”
Inslee could order up a
rule proposal, but he could
not dictate its content or
whether the commission
would pass one.
“Though the commis-
sion did not adopt the rule,
several
commissioners
noted the need for additional
work,” a governor’s spokes-
woman, Jaime Smith, said in
an email.
“The governor will dis-
cuss possible approaches
for that work when he meets
with (Susewind) later this
month,” she said.
Complying with Inslee’s
order, Fish and Wildlife staff
proposed to merely cod-
ify its current protocol. The
department’s Wolf Advisory
Group developed the proto-
col in 2017 and it has held up
well in court.
In defending killing
wolves, Fish and Wild-
IDFG
A gray wolf
life
law-
yers have
relied on
the depart-
ment’s
author-
ity to con-
Gov. Jay
trol danger-
Inslee
ous wildlife,
rather than
its application of a rule.
Commissioner
Lorna
Smith said she wants a rule,
but one stricter than the cur-
rent protocol.
“I believe it does way too
little to achieve the goals of
reducing livestock losses
and reducing the need to kill
wolves,” she said.
Smith and Commission-
ers Melanie Rowland, Tim
Ragen and John Lehmkuhl
voted against the motion
to not adopt a rule. Inslee
appointed all four after he
requested a rule.
Commissioners
Molly
Linville, Kim Thorburn, Bar-
bara Baker, Jim Anderson
and Don McIsaac voted for
the motion.
All five were on the
commission in 2020 when
it unanimously rejected a
rule-writing petition from
environmental groups, who
then appealed to Inslee.
The environmental groups
said they did not support kill-
ing wolves to protect live-
stock. They advocated new
requirements, such as elec-
tronically tracking cattle and
limiting the number of times
Fish and Wildlife could shoot
wolves on public lands.
Center for Biological
Diversity attorney Sophia
Ressler criticized the com-
mission’s decision, saying in
a statement it was devastating
to see the state fail to require
nonlethal deterrents.
Fish
and
Wildlife
reports spending 80% of its
wolf-management budget on
nonlethal approaches, such
as range-riders, lights and
alarms.
In recent cases, the depart-
ment has demanded “daily
or near daily” range-rid-
ing before resorting to lethal
control.
At times, ranchers have
been frustrated by changing
expectations.
Susewind said the ability
to learn and adjust to chang-
ing conditions was a strength
of the department’s current
protocol.
“We will continue to
evolve,” Susewind said.
“We will always work on
improved methods.”
Since 2012, Fish and
Wildlife has killed 38 wolves
to stop attacks on livestock.
Tribal hunters have harvested
52 wolves.
Fish and Wildlife says it
hasn’t shot enough wolves to
stop packs from expanding.
Washington wolf pop-
ulation has averaged 25%
growth annually since 2008.
The department said there
were at least 206 wolves in
the state at the end of 2021.
In an environmental
impact statement released
this month, the department
said it disagreed with wolf
advocates who say that more
regulation is needed to ensure
recovery.
WDFW: Removing wolves
works, won’t harm recovery
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Killing wolves curbs
attacks on cattle, but does
not imperil wolf recov-
ery, according to a Wash-
ington Department of Fish
and Wildlife environmental
impact statement.
The report drew on
the department’s experi-
ence and dozens of stud-
ies of wolves in the West.
Concerns that lethal con-
trol prevents recovery are
unfounded, the department
concluded.
The impact statement
was finished in anticipation
that the Fish and Wildlife
Commission will vote July
8 on a rule formalizing what
ranchers must do to prevent
conflicts with wolves.
Gov. Jay Inslee ordered
the rule at the urging of
environmental groups. The
governor called the annual
culling of packs in northeast
Washington unacceptable.
Although the department
proposed a rule as directed,
the report says more reg-
ulation is not needed for
wolves to thrive.
“Washington has some
of the lowest levels of wolf-
caused depredations and
subsequent wolf remov-
als anywhere in the nation
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under current management
practices,” according to the
report.
If the department con-
cludes non-lethal measures
aren’t enough, it will shoot
one or two wolves, hoping
predations stop. The rule
proposed by the staff would
codify the current practice.
Wolf advocates say the
state needs a more restric-
tive and enforceable rule
that binds the department
and ranchers to a slate of
non-lethal measures.
The nine-member com-
mission has the freedom
to amend or vote down the
proposal.
Several
commission-
ers have said a rule would
interfere with ranchers and
wildlife managers working
together, while others say
the rule is too weak and not
what wolf advocates want.
In the environmen-
tal impact statement, the
department warns that rais-
ing the threshold for remov-
ing wolves might backfire.
The department cites
research that found shoot-
ing a wolf within seven
days of a predation can keep
conflicts from escalating to
the point that stopping the
attacks takes killing the
whole pack.
“Thus, quick action in
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attempting lethal removal
is critical in ensuring that
lethal removal, if imple-
mented, is as effective as
possible,” according to
the environmental impact
statement.
Including two wolves in
June, Fish and Wildlife has
removed 38 wolves since
2012. Tribal hunters have
taken 52 wolves. Mean-
while, the population has
averaged 25% growth a
year.
The department and
Colville tribe counted 206
wolves in 2021. The depart-
ment says it’s a minimum
count and that there are
probably more wolves.
Fish and Wildlife says
northeast
Washington,
especially in the Colville
National Forest, has seen
the most consistent wolf
population growth in the
state.
The department took aim
at claims that the wolf pop-
ulation in the national for-
est has been “decimated” by
the agency killing wolves
to protect cattle on federal
grazing allotments.
“In fact, the opposite is
true,” states the department.
The national forest had 87
wolves in 17 packs in 2021.
In 2009, it had six wolves in
one pack.
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