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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017
State approves wolf kills in Umatilla County
Oregon may
allow ranchers
to kill threats
‘It’s important that we
address and limit wolf-
livestock problems while
also ensuring a healthy
wolf population.’
By ANDREW THEEN
The Oregonian
For the third time this
month, wildlife offi cials said
they would kill wolves in
northeast Oregon in response
to attacks on livestock.
A rancher in Umatilla
County had asked the state
Department of Fish and Wild-
life to eradicate the Meacham
Pack, but state offi cials said
Thursday they would allow
no more than two animals to
be killed. The pack had seven
members as of December.
For the fi rst time, Oregon
is considering allowing ranch-
ers to kill the wolves under a
“limited duration wolf kill per-
mit,” rather than rely on state
offi cials.
In a statement, agency
director Curt Melcher said
there’s been an increase in
the number of cattle and
other livestock killed, “which
is not surprising due to the
increasing population (of
wolves.)”
ODFW director Curt Melcher
Submitted Photo
Oregon has authorized wolf kills to deter attacks on livestock.
“While it’s disheartening
for some people to see ODFW
killing wolves,” Melcher said,
“our agency is called to man-
age wildlife in a manner con-
sistent with other land uses,
and to protect the social and
economic interests of all Ore-
gonians while it conserves
gray wolves.”
“It’s important that we
address and limit wolf-live-
stock problems while also
ensuring a healthy wolf pop-
ulation,” he continued.
Advocates slammed the
decision Thursday as the lat-
est disappointment from the
agency.
“It certainly looks like
Oregon is trying to become
Idaho when it comes to wolf
management,” said Sean Ste-
vens, executive director of the
EVERETT, Wash. —
U.S. House Speaker Paul
Ryan toured the Boeing
plant in Everett, answered
workers’ questions on a vari-
ety of matters and pitched
the Republican plan to cut
taxes for corporations.
The
Daily
Herald
reported Ryan on Thurs-
day saw the 767, 777 and
787 production lines before
sitting down with Boe-
ing CEO Dennis Muilen-
berg for a 45-minute town
hall attended by about 80
employees.
Ryan said reducing the
tax rate for businesses and
simplifying the tax code for
individuals will spur eco-
nomic growth.
State lawmakers agreed
in 2003 to reduce the busi-
ness and occupation tax rate
paid by Boeing and the com-
pany will save about $8 bil-
lion by 2040. But Boeing
cut 6,344 jobs in 2016 and
is down roughly 4,000 in
2017. Democratic lawmak-
ers and aerospace workers
have tried, without success,
to require that Boeing sus-
tain a minimum number of
jobs in the state if it wants to
keep the lower tax rate.
Kujala hired by Chamber of Commerce
The Daily Astorian
Former Warrenton Mayor
Mark Kujala has been hired
by the Astoria-Warrenton
Area Chamber of Commerce
as membership director.
A Warrenton resident,
Kujala is the owner of Ski-
panon Brand Seafoods. He
was a member of the War-
renton City Commission for
12
years,
fi ve of them
as mayor.
He is mar-
ried to Alana
Kujala, the
c h a m b e r ’s
Mark Kujala former event
coordinator.
Jim Servino, the former
membership director, and his
wife, Carol, are moving to
Texas to be closer to the cou-
ple’s grandchildren.
“We thank Jim for his
service to our community
and wish them the best of
luck in their relocation,” a
release from the c hamber
said.
The chamber will bid
farewell to Servino at a
chamber networking break-
fast on Tuesday.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
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Pleasant with sunshine
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Sunny and pleasant
Clouds giving way to
some sun
By CASSANDRA
PROFITA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
PRINEVILLE — Patrick
Lair with the U.S. Forest Ser-
vice drove into the Ochoco
National Forest to see how
things looked after hosting
thousands of eclipse visitors.
He drove the same road
on Wednesday that more than
30,000 people took to get into
the massive Symbiosis Festi-
val on Big Summit Prairie —
a patch of private land in the
middle of the national forest.
“At one point, we had
bumper-to-bumper traffi c from
the prairie out past Prineville,”
he said. “I’m kind of amazed
not to see more trash on the
sides of the road.”
With all the festivalgoers —
plus additional eclipse visitors
looking to camp in the path of
totality — offi cials worried
about people trampling veg-
etation and driving off-road
through the forest. With dry
conditions and late-summer
heat, they were especially wor-
ried about people accidentally
starting wildfi res.
Anticipating up to a million
eclipse visitors statewide, pub-
lic land managers prepared for
the worst. Now, as they survey
the damage, they’re fi nding
many of their fears of environ-
mental destruction never came
to pass.
The road into the Ochocos
is littered with some dis-
carded bottles, the occasional
strand of toilet paper and sev-
eral abandoned vehicles. But
considering how many peo-
ple traveled through here, Lair
said, it’s looking really good.
“I think we all were expect-
ing the worst, and when it
didn’t happen we all were
pleasantly surprised,” Lair
said. “Not that there aren’t
impacts - there will certainly
be trash to pick up.”
gun during an argument with
a family member.
Assault
• At 7:55 p.m. Wednes-
day, Theresa Odette, 42, of
Seaside, was arrested by the
Seaside Police Department at
Quatat Park and charged with
assaulting a public safety
offi cer, interfering with a
police offi cer and resisting
arrest. She allegedly caused
a small injury to an offi cer as
they attempted to take her to
non-criminal detox.
• At 11:13 p.m. Wednes-
day, Imelda Cantu Bradshaw,
46, of Seaside, was arrested
by the Seaside Police Depart-
ment on the 1100 block of S.
Downing Street and charged
with second-degree assault
and physical harassment.
She allegedly bit her boy-
friend and hit him with a
fl ashlight.
ON THE RECORD
Disorderly conduct
• At 4:13 p.m. Wednes-
day, Randall Shumaker, 59,
of Seaside, was arrested by
the Seaside Police Depart-
ment on the 700 block of S.
Holladay Drive and charged
with disorderly conduct,
unlawful possession of a
weapon with intent to use,
menacing, harassment and
reckless endangerment. He
allegedly pulled out a shot-
PUBLIC MEETINGS
FRIDAY
Skipanon Water Control District, noon, Pacifi c
Grange, 90475 U.S. Highway 101, Warrenton.
ALMANAC
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Salem
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Newport
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Sunset tonight ........................... 8:07 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:29 a.m.
Moonrise today ......................... 10:45 a.m.
Moonset today ......................... 10:21 p.m.
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New
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contributions may be made
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DEATH
Aug. 24, 2017
USTBY, Ellen Frances,
70, of Astoria, died in Astoria.
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LOTTERIES
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mor-
tuary in Astoria is in charge of
the arrangements.
OREGON
Thursday’s Pick 4:
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4 p.m.: 8-3-7-0
7 p.m.: 7-9-7-3
10 p.m.: 1-9-8-9
WASHINGTON
Thursday’s Daily Game: 1-2-8
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UNDER THE SKY
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MEMORIAL
Sunday, Aug. 27
SANDERSON, Robert —
Memorial service from 1 to 4
p.m. at the Warrenton Com-
munity Center, 170 S.W. Third
St., in Warrenton. Memorial
La Grande
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Roseburg
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Precipitation
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Year to date .................................... 50.05"
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Aug 29
MONDAY
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
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Normal high/low ........................... 69°/53°
Record high ............................ 86° in 1964
Record low ............................. 45° in 1992
First
The landowner moved cat-
tle from the pasture, had a
horseback rider surveying the
land “fi ve days per week” to
track the wolves, and removed
carcasses from the fi eld
immediately after they were
discovered.
“Unfortunately, this year
their increasing preventative
efforts have not been success-
ful in limiting wolf depre-
dation,” Roblyn Brown, the
Department of Fish and Wild-
life’s acting wolf coordinator,
said in a statement.
“We believe lethal control
is warranted in this situation
but this action will only be in
place as long as cattle are still
at risk. We will use incremen-
tal removal and lethal control
activities will be stopped as
soon as the cattle are removed
from the pasture.”
Eclipse viewers did little damage to
Oregon’s public lands, say offi cials
House Speaker Ryan touts
lower taxes in Boeing visit
Associated Press
nonprofi t Oregon Wild, “and
that’s a bad thing.”
Idaho has a more robust
wolf population than Oregon
but also has legalized hunt-
ing. The animal was removed
from Oregon’s endangered
species list relatively recently
— in 2015 — in the northeast-
ern areas of the state, like Wal-
lowa and Umatilla counties.
Stevens said the three wolf
kills in August occurred as the
state’s own annual report noted
the population was stagnant —
at roughly 112 animals — in
2016. Oregon also has an out-
dated plan for managing the
animal, Stevens said, and he
believes Gov. Kate Brown has
been “a little bit asleep at the
wheel” in addressing issues at
the fi sh and wildlife agency.
“I don’t think that’s a direc-
tion that the broad majority of
Oregonians want the agency to
be going in,” Stevens said of
the decision to kill wolves. “I
think we can coexist.”
The state said it approved
the kill order after four live-
stock deaths were confi rmed
in August and after the private
landowner in Umatilla County
made consistent and “substan-
tial” efforts to avoid confl ict
with the wolves.
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