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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015
Deal will add 10,000 acres to wildlife area
Used by sheep,
steelhead
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife is moving ahead
with a deal that will more
than double the size of a
wildlife area where the pub-
lic can hike, hunt and fish on
the Lower Deschutes River.
The agency has worked
with the Trust for Public
Land over the last two-and-
a-half years to acquire the
former ranch, which will
cost $3 million. Private
groups partnered with the
state to raise the money.
Lawmakers gave their
support to the plan before
they went home in July,
and the Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Commission voted
Courtesy of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is close to a
deal to acquire a more than 10,000-acre ranch on the Lower
Deschutes River, including Oak Creek Canyon pictured here.
unanimously to acquire the
land at a meeting Friday.
The proposal will add more
than 10,000 acres to an ex-
isting 8,500-acre wildlife
area on the river.
The parcel is the only pri-
vate land along the Deschutes
River that is “heavily used
by bighorn sheep” and two
streams on the property are
spawning grounds for steel-
head, according to the Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife.
In July, the Legislature ap-
proved the use of $1.3 million
from the U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service to help purchase
the land, as part of House
Bill 5006. Other money for
the acquisition comes from
more than $1 million in miti-
gation fees that utilities paid
to the state, $225,000 from
the Trust for Public Land, a
$135,000 Oregon Parks and
Recreation Department grant
and donations from two wild
sheep groups. The state will
not use hunting and fishing
license fees on the purchase,
according to a Department
of Fish and Wildlife docu-
ment.
Unique habitats
Jeremy Thompson, a dis-
trict wildlife biologist for the
agency in The Dalles, said the
property is important “because
of the unique habitats in the
Deschutes and the ability to tie
together a large landscape of
public ground in the canyon.”
“Being able to have the
entire Oak Creek drainage,
and have the ability to try to
manage ¿ sheries habitat in
that, will be exciting for us,”
Thompson said, referring to
one of the steelhead spawning
grounds.
The existing Lower De-
schutes River wildlife area is
a popular location for people
to view bighorn sheep, and
it’s also a good place for bird
watching with habitat for
raptors, migratory songbirds
and game birds, according to
the agency. Thompson said
the Department of Fish and
Wildlife will also continue
to allow livestock grazing
on the property as a manage-
ment tool.
The Department of Fish
and Wildlife already owns or
manages 20 wildlife or rec-
reation areas across the state,
with a total of more than
200,000 acres.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Tab for DAS employee inquiry hits $25,000
involvement of Oregon Depart-
ment of Justice lawyers. Matt
Shelby, a spokesman for the De-
partment of Administrative Ser-
vices which manages the data
center, said the agency brought
in Department of Justice law-
yers to provide a third-party re-
view of the situation.
“In this particular case, our
(human resources) folks felt it
was best to go through DOJ on
this one,” Shelby said.
A spokeswoman for the
Oregon Department of Justice
said the agency did not have
any comment on when lawyers
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon’s ad-
ministrative agency has spent
approximately $25,000 since
February on a human resources
investigation of two top manag-
ers at the state data center.
Michael Rodgers, the acting
director of the data center, and
Technical Engineering Manager
Marshall Wells were placed on
paid administrative leave days
after then-Gov. John Kitzhaber
resigned in February .
Much of the cost is due to the
will complete the investigation.
Michael Jordan, the state’s
chief operating of¿ cer and di-
rector of the Department of
Administrative Services at the
time, told The Oregonian that
Rodgers and Wells were placed
on leave during an internal in-
vestigation into a dispute over
how to handle computers and
phones used by the Kitzhaber
administration. Rodgers has
since admitted in an interview
with Willamette Week that he
leaked approximately 6,000 of
Kitzhaber’s emails to the news-
paper.
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Minn., to her parents, Earl and Alma (Carl- as numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. She
son) Walker. She attended Warrenton Schools. was preceded in death by her husbands; son,
She married Edwin Brown, with
Jerry Brown; brothers, Orville, Rob-
whom she raised her ¿ ve children
ert, Jack and Jerry Walker; and her
sister, Shirley Shelton (Walker).
in Gearhart, Ore. She later married
JoAnn spent her last few years in
twice more, Donald Forrester and
Ilwaco, Wash., close to family and
Herbert (Ed) Berg. She spent the
friends. She was always interested in
majority of her life on the North
what others were doing, had a fond
Oregon and Southwest Washington
memory of the past while enjoying
coast.
the present, and was known for her
JoAnn worked for many years at
love of family and her many friends.
Public Market, later Thriftway gro-
Her passion was her yard and
cery store, in Seaside, Ore. She and
JoAnn
gardens, with begonias as her favor-
Ed Berg also owned and operated
Walker
ite. She was an avid collector, but it
Faraway Farms in Seaside.
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JoAnn is survived by her daugh-
ter, Sally Brown (Joy Martin); sons, Steve (Val- where she would be found, knees in the dirt
erie), Scott (Debbie) and Jeff (Gloria) Brown; and a smile on her face.
As per her request, there will be no formal
two grandchildren, Brenda and Adam Brown;
and the light of her life, great-grandson Jered service, but rather the encouragement to enjoy
Rovario. Surviving brothers include Darald your family, friends and À owers.
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MARIN-FONTANILLA, Maureen and
Eduardo, of Warrenton, a boy Christopher
Marin-Fontanilla, born at Columbia Me-
morial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents
are Gavino and Teresa Marin of Warren-
ton and Ador and Al Beutler of Naselle,
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“If we’ve got multiple staff
from all those agencies going
to the U.S. attorneys and say-
ing, ‘What’s the best way for
you to receive this information,’
that doesn’t make for a good
ef¿ cient process,” Shelby said.
However, he added that “U.S.
a ttorneys can contact anybody
they want, and have throughout
this process. They don’t need to
tell us who they’re talking to ,
and the people they talk to don’t
need to tell us. There’s nothing
we can do on that front to pro-
hibit anyone from speaking with
the U.S. attorneys.”
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JoAnn Helen Walker
Pendleton
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cess, according to a text message
to Rodgers that became part of a
state police investigation. Jordan
asked Oregon State Police to in-
vestigate the leak of Kitzhaber’s
emails, and the police ultimately
concluded that Rodgers had re-
leased the records.
“I may have crossed a line
by directly contacting the U.S.
attorney,” Wells wrote in the
Feb. 19 text message. “I gather
only Michael Jordan and high
up folks have been involved in
conversations.”
Shelby said employees at
the Department of Administra-
tive Services were supposed to
coordinate their response to the
federal subpoena through the
Oregon Department of Justice.
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Shelby said Rodgers and
Wells “were put on leave pend-
ing the outcome of an investi-
gation into their response to a
federal subpoena.”
The U.S. Justice Depart-
ment served the Department
of Administrative Services on
Feb. 13 with a broad subpoena
for records related to Hayes and
Kitzhaber.
“Back when they were put
on leave, we were in the mid-
dle of responding to that feder-
al subpoena and were trying to
do it in the most ef¿ cient and
responsible way,” Shelby said.
“Actions they were taking were
making that more dif¿ cult.”
Wells contacted a U.S. attor-
ney at some point in that pro-
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