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NEWS BRIEFS
LIGHTEN UP
If there is anything absurd left to say about
contraception, some Catholic bishop will say it.
BY R A FA E L A L DAV E
MORE HUMANE
ANIMAL TRAPS?
Deer, raccoons and even pet dogs have suffered and died
in traps set for predators in Oregon, and conservation and
animal rights groups want that to change. According to
Brooks Fahy, the executive director of Eugene-based
Predator Defense, “Oregon is behind other states on a lot of
issues, and the current regulations on trapping show very
little concern for the non-consumptive use of wildlife.”
The laws governing the placement and usage of
wildlife traps in Oregon lag behind other Western states
and need to be changed, according to a petition to the
Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission from the Humane
Society of the United States, Predator Defense, the Oregon
Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society of
Portland and Eugene’s Cascadia Wildlands.
The petition was inspired by recent incidents including
traps set at OSU’s sheep farm that caught a fawn, a raccoon
and family pets. And the petitioners say that according to
information from the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife in the past two and a half months at least six dogs
were caught in traps and snares in central Oregon. One
Oregon family’s dog died after being caught in a Conibear
trap set by the USDA’s Wildlife Services, Fahy says.
According to the petition, the goals of the proposed
changes are to “help protect members of the public who
recreate on public lands,” and to “reduce unnecessary
animal suffering and the trapping of non-target wildlife.”
The traps are set to catch and kill predators.
The proposed amendments to Oregon’s trapping laws
require that all traps be checked at least every 24 hours — as
it stands now, traps are permitted to go un-inspected for
anywhere between 48 hours and 30 days, depending on the
target species, leaving animals to suffer and die. Furthermore,
trappers would have to attach tags to their traps with their
names and telephone numbers and refrain from setting them
anywhere on public land that is within 100 feet of trails and
other public recreation areas. Trappers would be required to
post clearly visible warning signs within a five-foot radius
of their traps and snares on public lands.
Fahy says, “This petition only getting to the tip of the
iceberg of inhumane hunting and trapping, but we are part
of a movement that is going in the right direction.”
— Caitlin McKimmy
dodging the bullet by not spraying atrazine or 2,4-D in the
Triangle Lake region.”
Owen says that normally those chemicals are among
the many sprayed on the private timber-producing forests
owned by companies including Weyerhaeuser around
Triangle Lake in the Coast Range “and they are going to
spray it all over Oregon this spring, just not in the test area.
He adds, “They will still spray about 14 other herbicides
in our region, just not the two that are being tested for.”
According to Owen, the reason that atrazine and 2,4-D
were chosen by both Barr in the testing commissioned by
the Triangle Lake residents and by the current state study
to test for is because they are the only two that can be
discovered in urine samples “by virtue of the fact that the
body creates metabolites in reaction to them, and those
metabolites stick around for awhile.”
On March 21, Owen and other Triangle Lake area
residents will bring their toxic concerns to a PARC (Oregon
Pesticide Analytical and Response Center) meeting. One of
the concerns, he says, is the influence the group Oregonians
for Food and Shelter has on PARC and the lack of
investigation into the pesticide applications that resulted in
PESTICIDE SPRAY STUDY
PROBLEMS
For years the rural residents of Triangle Lake have been
trying to stop poisonous pesticide sprays from contaminating
their houses, farms and bodies. After a study by Dana Barr
of Emory University found pesticides in the urine of 44
people in the area, it seemed like the concerns and health
issues of the Pitchfork Rebellion and other Triangle Lake
groups would be at last be taken seriously.
But now a new study involving the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control, the
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and
the state of Oregon has hit a snag.
According to Pitchfork Rebel Day Owen the
investigative team has canceled their attempt to do spring
urine sampling because the industry is “intentionally
LANE AREA SPRAY SCHEDULE
Lorane area: Fruit Growers Supply, (541) 345-
0996, plans to hire Oregon Forest Management
Services to ground spray using Foresters and Garlon
XRT with MSO on 33 acres in Township 20S, Range
04W Section 7 in the Lorane area. Concerns include
proximity to King Estate Winery, Lorane Elementary
School and Hawley Creek, home to threatened
turtles. See ODF notice 2012-781-00174.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers: 342-8332, www.for-
estlanddwellers.org
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