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on-street, sculptured bike corrals in car
parking and unused space downtown in
front of businesses that approve them. Bike
corrals are planned for Morning Glory
Cafe (450 Willamette St.), Cornucopia
(207 East 5th Ave.) and the Kiva Grocery
Store (125 West 11th Ave.).
LCC instructor Lee Imonen’s Art 117
class is working on designs for the artistic
bike corrals. The city said last month that
it will display the bike parking art for
public comment in the Atrium lobby in
January and will continue the display in
the downtown library in February. A
committee including members from the
city’s Public Art Committee and Bicycle
Pedestrian Advisory Committee will
review public comments and pick the
winning designs in March. The corrals will
be fabricated by an LCC class and installed
in the spring, according to the city.
The city also plans to replace parking
meters with area pay machines and install
bike corrals on 13th Avenue near the UO.
— Alan Pittman
THE BEAR
NECESSITIES
The science on bears marches on, but it
looks like updates to Oregon’s management
plan for the predators will move much
more slowly. More than 12 years after its
1998 due date, the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has suspended
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its requirement that it update its
management plan for black bears every
five years. The conservation group Big
Wildlife sent the ODFW its final notice of
intent to sue over the agency’s failure to
update its black bear management plan in
a timely manner last week. The suit now
has no grounds because the ODFW has
suspended its own regulation.
Rick Hargrave, a spokesman for the
ODFW, says the rule was suspended
because the bear plan revision was so long
overdue that it was a “moot point.”
Hargrave says, “Litigation would bog
down the process to begin revision.”
According to Hargrave, the next black
bear plan probably won’t include the
requirement that it update its plan
according to a predetermined schedule.
“The legislative session could impose a
review but there likely won’t be a
requirement inside the bear plan,”
Hargrave said.
“It’s just bare, bare [bear?] minimum to
require the agency to comply with its own
laws; there’s nothing political about that,”
Big Wildlife Director Spencer Lennard
says. Lennard says that not including an
update deadline will cause harm to bears in
the future. “I have no trust in this agency,
and I don’t think that most Oregonians
looking at this debacle will have much
more,” he says.
The ODFW has announced its intention
to update its plan by the end of the year.
The black bear plan outlines ODFW’s
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