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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2017
Rule easing public lands transfer
concerns hunters, outdoor groups
Fear of losing
access to land
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — A change
in U.S. House rules making it
easier to transfer millions of
acres of federal public lands
to states is worrying hunters
and other outdoor enthusiasts
across the West who fear los-
ing access.
Lawmakers earlier this
month passed a rule eliminat-
ing a significant budget hurdle
and written so broadly that it
includes national parks.
President-elect
Donald
Trump’s pick for Interior secre-
tary, Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan
Zinke, voted for the rule change
as did many other Republi-
cans. The Senate would have to
weigh in on public land trans-
fers as well.
“Anybody who uses them
for any kind of outdoor activ-
ity — snowmobiling, moun-
tain biking, hunters, all that
— they’re very alarmed by all
this,” said Boise State Univer-
sity professor and public lands
policy expert John Freemuth.
“The loss of access that this
could lead to.”
The rule passed by the
House defines federal land
that could be given to states as
“any land owned by the United
States, including the surface
estate, the subsurface estate, or
any improvements thereon.”
About a million square
miles of public land is managed
by the federal government,
mostly in 12 Western states,
according to the Congressional
Research Service. Some state
AP Photo/Don Ryan
A pronghorn antelope doe
keeps watch as two fawns
peer out from tall grass in
southeastern Oregon.
lawmakers in recent years have
made failed efforts to wrest
control of those lands, mainly
to reduce obstacles to accessing
resources such as timber, natu-
ral gas and oil, Freemuth noted.
Private interests
Lawmakers have the
authority to transfer those lands
to states. Outdoor recreation-
ists fear states would then sell
the land to private entities that
would end public access.
Zinke, whose confirma-
tion hearing to become Inte-
rior secretary is today, has a
track record of opposing pub-
lic land transfers. Last sum-
mer, he resigned as a delegate
to the Republican National
Convention, which favors such
transfers.
“The congressman has
never voted to sell or transfer
federal lands and he maintains
his position against the sale
or transfer of federal lands,”
Heather Swift, a Zinke spokes-
woman, said in an email.
Whit Fosburgh, CEO of the
Theodore Roosevelt Conserva-
tion Partnership, which works
to guarantee places to hunt
and fish, said he’s inclined to
excuse Zinke on his House vote
favoring transfers because of
No Owyhee Canyonlands
monument, says Merkley
his record being “very solid on
these public lands issues.”
Still, Fosburgh was irked
that the House approved a rule
that he said essentially allows
federal public land to be given
away as if it had no value.
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson,
R-Idaho, also voted for the rule
easing transfers. But Simpson
was also the driver of a 2015
bill that created three wilder-
ness areas in Idaho after he
got ranchers, recreationists and
environmental groups to back
the plan after a 15-year effort.
Monument
designation has
been shelved
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley
says he does not believe Pres-
ident Obama will designate
the Owyhee Canyonlands as
a national monument before
leaving office on Friday.
Merkley said Interior Sec-
retary Sally Jewel told him
a monument designation for
the eastern Oregon lands has
been shelved.
Obama has taken a
series of monument actions
in recent months, includ-
ing expansion of the Cas-
cade-Siskiyou National Mon-
ument in southern Oregon.
The fate of the 2.5 mil-
lion-acre region along the
Idaho border has been the
subject of heated controversy
for more than a year. Several
environmental groups and
the Keen footwear company
have campaigned for the
monument designation, say-
ing it’s needed to protect the
rugged landscape.
Monument concerns
The possibility that Presi-
dent Obama would designate a
much larger area as a national
monument is widely believed
to have led to the bill passed by
the House and Senate.
“There is no disputing Con-
gressman Simpson is a sup-
porter of public lands,” Nikki
Wallace, a spokeswoman for
Simpson, said in an email.
Freemuth noted that even
with a rule change, land trans-
fers would face significant
challenges.
“Whatever Zinke says early
will affect those attempts,”
Freemuth said.
He and Fosburgh fear that
federal land turned over to
states would be too expensive
to manage, particularly when it
comes to fighting wildfires.
Freemuth believes states
would sell land to private enti-
ties. Fosburgh was equally dis-
missive, saying transfers would
eventually lead to private own-
ers and no public access.
“You get rid of public lands,
you end hunting and fishing
in this country as we know it
today,” Fosburgh said.
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
A Clatskanie man has been
arrested and charged with the
online sexual corruption of
at least one girl in Clatsop
County.
Theron Joseph Manley,
18, was arrested Friday at the
Pacific County Courthouse in
South Bend, Washington, and
charged with three counts of
online sexual corruption and
two counts of attempted use
of a child in a
sexual display.
The Clat-
sop
County
Sheriff ’s
Office
had
been investi-
Theron
gating Man-
Joseph
ley since Octo-
Manley
ber, soon after
the
crimes
allegedly began. A mother of
a local teenager found evi-
dence on Facebook that her
daughter had been in contact
with Manley. The 14-year-
old girl allegedly received
requests for nude images. On
at least one occasion, Manley
met the girl in Warrenton for
the purpose of sexual activity,
according to a press release.
Manley also arranged to
meet at least three other girls
between the ages of 13 and
15 in Seaside and Warren-
ton, Detective Ryan Hum-
phrey said. He also allegedly
arranged to deliver marijuana
to several local teenagers.
Clatsop County depu-
ties arrested Manley at the
courthouse on Friday, where
he was attending a separate
court case. As the investiga-
tion unfolds, evidence may
point to more victims, Hum-
hprey said.
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a p a r t of
Owyhee monument proposal
“ripe for consideration.”
Merkley said Jewell
made this clear in talks with
both him and U.S. Sen. Ron
Wyden, D-Oregon.
“The secretary was very
clear in the conversations
that both Senator Wyden
and I had that they were not
prepared to act,” Merkley
said.
“So it was set aside,” he
added, “and I have a feeling
it will be set aside for quite
a while.”
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That’s generated strong
opposition from local ranch-
ers and by Malheur County
residents — where the can-
yonlands are located — in
an advisory vote.
Merkley, D-Oregon, has
said he didn’t necessarily
oppose a national monu-
ment, but that it should only
be undertaken after local
concerns were addressed.
In a telephone interview
Friday, Merkley noted that
never happened and that
Jewell did not consider the
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A sign posted in Jordan Valley opposes the Owyhee
Canyonlands National Monument in Malheur County.
Jordan Valley is nearly surrounded by the proposed
monument.
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