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Regional conference looks at wildlife, land use issues By Shelley Stone Of The Print Clackamas Community College will be the location for the Pacific Northwest Con ference on “Wildlife in the Ur ban Environment,” which is to be held May 4, 5 and 6. The conference is spon sored by 21 cooperating organizations, two of which include the College and the John Inskeep Environmental Learning Center (ELC) which is located on the College cam pus. The conference is the first in the Northwest and is design ed to provide for planners, resource managers, park and recreation staff, members of the business community, educators, land use specialists and the general public a forum to address issues which have an impact upon wildlife and wildlife habitat in Northwest urban environments. Jerry Herrmann, ELC director and co-chairman of the conference, insists there is no fund raising aspect to the conference at all. He said this is the first-ever conference of its kind in the Pacific Nor thwest, although there was a similar one in Maine held five years ago. Keynote speakers at the conference will be Dr. John Kusler from the National Wildlife Law Institute in Washington, D.C., Dr.. Robert Michael Pyle and Dr. Fredrick D. Shepard. Pyle is a founder of the Xerces Society and is the author of two books: the “Audobon Society Field Guide to North American But terflies” and “Watching Washington Butterflies.” He is currently a writer and teaches at Grays Harbor Col lege in Washington state. Shepard has taught “Bioaesthetics” in Cyprus and Turkey. He has served as Ex ecutive Secretary of the Board of Governors of the American Board Schools in Turkey, and has been an instructor of biology at Aleppo College in Syria, and a teaching assistant in entomology at Harvard University. In addition to the three speakers mentioned above, 40 other speakers will be par ticipating at the conference, which is expected to draw at least 200 people from Eugene to Seattle. The agenda for the con ference is as follows: On Fri day there will be interaction among agencies, organizations and individuals responsible for the utilization, acquisition, management and planning of urban wildlife habitats. Educators and the general public will be acquainted on Saturday with issues that have an impact on urban wildlife. The public will also learn how they can become effectively in volved in planning for wildlife, and what businesses and other groups can do to promote conservation and careful development of urban wildlife habitats. On Sunday a series of field trips will provide the op portunity to visit some of Oregon’s most important wildlife areas. These trips will include the Willamette River Study Cruise and the Urban Wildlife Resources Tours. The resources tours will include the Johnson Creek tour, the Fan- no Creek and Washington Oregon, and Washington; to County wetlands tour, the share success stories between Hedges Creek Marsh tour and economic development- and the Urban Streams Enhance conservation interests; to set the stage for an ongoing series ment Techniques tour. of mini-conferences on critical Expected outcomes from arban land use issues, urban the conference are as follows: wetlands, urban streams, park to develop an urban wildlife management and wildlife resource directory of in management; and to share in terested planners, wildlife formation regarding conserva specialists and citizens; to pro tion opportunities (tax incen mote an exchange of urban tives, easements and planning wildlife issues throughout strategies). The total cost of the con ference is $30, which includes programs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (except for the river cruise), a Friday dinner, and Friday and Saturday lun ches. The dinner on Friday will feature wild plant salads, game hens, wild rice stuffing, and hazel nut and filbert desserts. For more information about the conference, the ELC has pamphlets available. Plymouth automobiles abound on campus for contest By Shelley Ball Of The Print They will be stationed bn the walkway outside Clackamas Community Col lege’s Community Center tomorrow morning. All ten of them. Ten brand new Plymouth automobiles. What sounds like a major case of illegal parking is ac tually the setting for the Oregon Plymouth AAA Trou- ble Shooting Contest, which is being held at the College this year. The event will last from 9 a.m. to noon on May 3, and will feature 20 of the state’s best high school automotive repair students competing to see who can find and repair the deliberately placed “bugs” in the cars.” Each of the cars will have between five and eight defec tive parts that will have been Club members honored; low funds ruin recognition By Heather Wright marketing event, and Gheno placed third in economics. As a team, York and Ghenb plac Tim York and John ed second in business decision Gheno from Clackamas Com making. “I learned something that munity College’s Phi Beta Lambda qualified for the Na I’ll never find in any tional Leadership Conference. book—self-worth. I really However, due to lack of didn’t care that I won an funds these students will not award because I learned what be able to participate at na self-satisfaction is,” Gheno tionals, Vice President of said. “Presently there are six PBL, Tim York, said. On April 12-14, Gheno, members in our PBL chapter. York and Tom Jones com PBL is a national business peted in the PBL State Leader chapter. It’s directly for stu ship Conference at the Wilson dents involved with business courses,” York said. ville Holiday Inn. Mel Hostager is the ad The competition included team and individual events in visor of PBL, and the officers accounting, business data pro are: President, Don Beck; Vice cessing, marketing, economics President, Tim York; Trea and business decision making. surer, Tom Jones and Secre York placed third in the tary, Jodi Stahlnecker. Of The Print Wednesday, May 2, 1984 secretly placed in them before the contest starts. All of the cars will have the same pro blems, and the students who can find and repair all of the “bugs” in their car in the shortest amount of time wiU win. While time is an impor tant element in the competi tion, College Assistant Dean of Agriculture and Industrial Division George Warren said the key factor to winning is for the students to have all of the defective parts repaired when the cars are examined by the judges. “The emphasis they (Chrysler/AAA) place on this is excellence,” he said. Warren also said that while 60 percent of the students’ contest points will come from the hands-on event, the other 40 percent will come from a written exam that each of the students had to take and pass in order to par ticipate in the competition. This written exam is made up of 50 questions and covers the entire automobile. A max imum of four students will have taken the test in one high school, with the two top scorers participating in the trouble shooting contest. This year will be the first that the trouble shooting con test has been held since the Chrysler Corporation went in to a financial bind during 1979-80. Warren said now that Chrysler is “back on track again as a manufacturer of U.S. automobiles,” it can af ford to hold the competition once more. This year’s competition will also be the first where AAA will be co-sponsoring with Chrysler. When asked what he thought about having the contest at the College, Warren said he was proud. “Out of 15 community col leges, they (Chrysler/AAA) chose the College. I’m honored.” Warren also said holding the competition on campus will help to promote the Col lege’s automotive depart ment. “We’ll (College) get top notch students to come on campus; 20 of the top notch kids (from the state) will be here,” he said. In addition to two students representing the Owen Sabin Occupational Skills Center, two students from each of the following high schools will be competing in the contest: Canby Union, Hidden Valley, Newport, Philomath, Benson, David Douglas, Columbia, Vale Union and South Albany. Students will be com peting in teams of two, with two students to a car.. There will be first, second’and third place finishes in the trouble shooting contest, and the first of the top three teams will adv- nce to a national hands-on competition in June, which will be held at the Arlington Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Although Warren said the chances of getting an automotive job through the contests are very high,he said it has been his experience over the years that there have been more jobs available than takers. “Most of the kids are so sharp, they’re already working elsewhere,” he said. But despite this, Warren said he thinks the automotive contest can be a valuable ex perience for auto-mechanics students. “This is a test being con ducted by the industry, and even if they (students) don’t go into mechanics, that degree of excellence carries over into whatever they choose to do. It (contest) helps you set a per formance level,” he said. Judges for the trouble shooting contest will consist of College auto-mechanic students and instructors, to technicians and industrial maintenance workers from the Portland branch of the Chrysler Corporation and the AAA, as well as the Oregon Department of Education. Although only the first- place finishing team will have the honor of advancing to the national competition, Warren said that all participants, in cluding the judges, will receive certificates for being involved in the contest. Page 3