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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016
Oregon bills seek to ratify wolf delisting
Striking a balance
Environmentalists
challenging
decision in court
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Two Oregon law-
makers plan to introduce bills that
would ratify the decision by state
wildlife of¿ cials to delist wolves as
an endangered species.
The proposals, which will be con-
sidered during the upcoming legisla-
tive session in February, are planned
by state Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena,
and Rep. Greg Barreto, R-Cove, in
reaction to a lawsuit ¿ led by envi-
ronmental groups.
In November , the Oregon Fish
and Wildlife Commission voted to
delist the wolves under the state’s
version of the Endangered Species
Act after several criteria for their re-
covery had been met.
Under a management plan for
wolves ¿ rst created in 2005, the spe-
cies could be delisted after having
established four breeding pairs for
three years and no longer facing a
substantial risk of extinction in a sig-
ni¿ cant portion of its range, among
other criteria.
Wolves were delisted by the fed-
eral government in the easternmost
portion of the state, but remain pro-
tected in the rest. Oregon wildlife
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
OR-3, a three-year-old male wolf from the Imnaha pack, is shown in
this image captured from video taken by a Department of Fish and
Wildlife employee on May 10, 2011, in Wallowa County . Two Oregon
lawmakers plan to introduce bills that would ratify the decision by
state wildlife officials to delist wolves as an endangered species.
of¿ cials have the jurisdiction over
those wolves under the state Endan-
gered Species Act .
However, Oregon Wild, Cascadia
Wildlands and the Center for Bio-
logical Diversity recently challenged
the state’s delisting decision in court,
arguing the decision unlawfully
ignored the best available science
about wolf recovery.
The bills, which will be intro-
duced in the House and Senate, will
provide the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife — which is over-
seen by the commission — more am-
munition in defending itself in court,
Barreto said.
“We’re shoring up what the
commission has already decided,”
he said during a hearing last week
before the House Committee on
Agriculture and Natural Resourc-
es.
Oregon has 81 documented
wolves, but the actual population is
likely in the range of 100 to 120 ani-
mals and a delisting is necessary for
the Department of Fish and Wildlife
to eventually manage the species,
said Hansell.
Such management could involve
hunting to keep populations in check.
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A free workshop for parents and caregiv-
ers of children ages 5 to 10, “Positive Disci-
pline Tips & Strategies,” is being presented
from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Astor
Elementary School, 3550 Franklin Ave.
The workshop provides skills and tools
to use to increase children’s cooperation,
ease hassles and reduce misbehavior with-
out having to raise your voice, threaten or
spank. Participants will learn how to use
natural and logical consequences, encour-
Time
5:41 a.m.
6:42 p.m.
model of its building at 1111
Exchange St. The Astoria Se-
nior Center is moving back to
the Exchange Street location .
For information, contact
Mary Parker at 503-861-5370.
Low
2.9 ft.
-0.7 ft.
Fronts
age independence, build healthy self-es-
teem and use developmental and age appro-
priate techniques.
Free child care is being offered, and light
refreshments will be served. Those who are
using the child care service should arrive by
6:10 p.m. The program begins at 6:30 p.m.
This workshop is offered by Northwest
Parenting in partnership with Astor Ele-
mentary School to enhance skills and tools
for parents.
For information, contact Teresa Crouter
at 503-325-8673, ext. 2.
Trollers Association holds annual meeting
The Daily Astorian
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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ter at the Yacht Club is Friday.
This temporary bus service
was being provided because
the s enior c enter had tempo-
rarily been located at the Yacht
Club building during the re-
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‘Dangerous precedent’
The proposed bills would set a
dangerous precedent of the L egis-
lature inserting itself into delisting
decisions on a species-by-species
basis, said Quinn Read, Northwest
representative of the Defenders of
Wildlife environmental group.
“We’re concerned by initiatives
that would circumvent the (wolf)
plan,” she said.
Scott Beckstead, state director for
the Humane Society of the United
States, an animal rights group, said
he’s worried about the possibility of
trophy hunting of wolves in Oregon.
Hunters in Idaho, where such
hunting is allowed, have demonstrat-
ed a “cruelty and depravity” in kill-
ing wolves that wouldn’t be tolerated
by the public in Oregon, he said.
“It’s certainly something I don’t
want to see in Oregon, and I worry
about us heading down that path,”
Beckstead said.
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Free parenting workshop planned
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In the past year, wolves have only
been con¿ rmed to have killed four
cows, while the state has more than
1.3 billion cattle, he said. The cattle
industry generat ed more than $1 bil-
lion in revenues, making it Oregon’s
top agricultural sector.
“The industry’s growth has
not been stymied by the arrival of
wolves,” Stevens said.
Astoria Yacht Club bus
route closure announced
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Ranchers in Oregon have abided
by restrictions on wolf management
for the past 10 years, so now that
the criteria for delisting have been
met, the state government should up-
hold the wolf plan’s credibility, said
Rocky Dallum, political advocate for
the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association.
“The goal was to strike a bal-
ance between reestablishing wolves
in Oregon and meeting the needs of
those producers,” he said.
During the decade that the plan has
been in place, ranchers have felt a great
deal of “heartburn” as state wildlife of-
¿ cials have refused to remove wolves
that repeatedly prey on livestock, said
Todd Nash, a rancher and chairman of
the association’s wolf committee.
The wolf plan should be followed
as planned rather than allowing the
courts to take over the process, he
said. “I want to bring some sanity to
this and let the scientists and wildlife
managers manage, instead of some
conservation groups and a judge.”
Environmental groups oppose the
proposed legislation, claiming that it will
unnecessarily interfere with the authority
of the Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Oregon has fewer than 90 wolves,
but the state could sustain up to
1,400 of them, said Sean Stevens,
executive director of Oregon Wild.
Currently, the species occupies
only 12 percent of its potential habi-
tat, he said. “The status of wolves in
Oregon is still tenuous.”
WESTPORT, Wash. —
The Washington Trollers As-
sociation , an association of
over 100 commercial ¿ shing
family businesses that use the
hook and line method of har-
vesting prime salmon off of
the Washington c oast, is hold-
ing its budget board meeting
at 9 a.m., and annual meeting
at 12:30 p.m., Saturday at Mc-
Causland Hall, 1020 W. Ocean
Ave., Westport, next to the
Westport Maritime Museum.
A working lunch is being
provided by WE¿ sh.
ble litigation, Cannon Beach
Fire Station, 188 Sunset Blvd.
Seaside Transportation
Advisory Committee, 6
p.m., City Hall, 989 Broad-
way.
Cannon Beach Design
Review Board, 6 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
MONDAY
Jewell School Board, 6
p.m., Jewell School library,
83874 Oregon Highway 103.
Seaside City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Hospital for a tibia fracture
on his left leg. The pedestrian
was in the marked crosswalk
when he was struck. The driv-
er, Rosalio Garcia, 49, of As-
toria, was cited for failure to
stop for a pedestrian.
DUII arrest
• At 5:57 p.m. Tuesday,
Warrenton Police arrested Ter-
ry Lee Godden, 45, of Coos
Bay, for driving under the in-
À uence of intoxicants at the
intersection of U.S. Highway
101 and Alternate U.S. High-
way 101. Godden’s blood al-
cohol was measured at 0.18
percent, according to police.
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Seaside Tree Board, 4
p.m., City Hall, 989 Broad-
way.
Cannon Beach Fire Dis-
trict Board, 5 p.m., execu-
tive session, to consult with
legal counsel regarding possi-
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Pedestrian struck
• At 11:48 a.m. Jan. 11,
Astoria Police responded to
a vehicle versus pedestrian
crash on Marine Drive and
Eighth Street. A 20-year-old
Astoria man was struck by a
GMC SUV and transported by
Medix to Columbia Memorial
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