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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
Washington hemp pioneer has crop, but needs market
Industry
already at a
crossroads
By DON JENKINS
EO Media Group
An entrepreneur at the fore-
front of establishing hemp in
Washington state says that he
has harvested his fi rst crop but
doesn’t know what he’ll do
with it, underlining the unpre-
dictable future for sober can-
nabis in the state.
Cory Sharp said he fi g-
ures he can store for a couple
of years an estimated 70,000
to 80,000 pounds of hemp
grain. He said he’s trying to
line up fi nancing for a plant
to make hemp-seed oil, sold
Don Jenkins/EO Media Group
Washington state hemp en-
trepreneur Cory Sharp said
that his hemp crop has
been harvested, but he’s
still looking for a market.
as a nutritional supplement.
“It’ll take millions to do
it right,” he said. “It’s a lot of
capital, and there are a lot of
hurdles.”
Sharp, owner of Hemp-
Logic, oversaw last spring the
fi rst planting of hemp under
rules set down by the Wash-
ington State Department of
Agriculture. The rules care-
fully followed federal limits on
cultivating hemp plants, which
remain a federally controlled
substance, even in states with
legal recreational marijuana.
The grain harvested in
Grant County by Sharp are
viable seeds, so they can’t
cross state lines. They must be
processed in Washington.
“We’re out of harvest
and trying to fi nd homes for
things,” Sharp said. “We have
to fi nd a market before we do
anything.”
The state licenses hemp
growers and processors, mon-
itors the seed supply and
inspects farms. So far, the state
has issued six hemp licenses,
including one to a Washing-
ton State University researcher
and two to Indian tribes.
Meanwhile, other states, such
as Oregon, Colorado, Ken-
tucky and Tennessee, have
each licensed dozens of hemp
farmers or processors.
The Washington State
Department of Agriculture
says about 180 acres of hemp
were planted this year. Once
launched this year, the pro-
gram was to be sustained by
fees. But the fees have raised
approximately $8,100, while
the department has spent
$146,000 on the program. The
department says it’s not fea-
sible to expect fees to sup-
port the program and will
ask lawmakers to appropri-
ate $287,000 from the general
fund to continue it.
Sharp and hemp consultant
Joy Beckerman said high fees
are a problem and so are the
restrictions.
Beckerman said she has
a long list of proposals for
changing the state’s program.
“It’s at a crossroads,” she
said. “We need to remove some
of these barriers. … We need
more seeds in the ground.”
One of Beckerman’s pro-
posals is to make sure a mar-
ijuana grow can’t push aside a
hemp farm. Under a state rule,
hemp can’t be grown within 4
miles of marijuana. If a mari-
juana grow moves in the area,
the hemp farm must go.
“I, unfortunately, have to
tell people, ‘Beware, don’t go
buy a farm,’” Beckerman said.
Although Congress autho-
rized state-supervised hemp
cultivation and marketing in
the 2014 Farm Bill, the crop
still faces regulatory uncer-
tainty. Oregon U.S. Sens.
Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
and three other senators sent
a letter to U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral Jeff Sessions in June say-
ing they were concerned that
people involved in hemp pro-
grams are being denied bank-
ing services.
“This next year is going to
be interesting,” Sharp said.
“I don’t have a rosy picture
for you,” he said. “Being a pio-
neer is never easy.”
Federal wildlife agency says wolf was shot, offers reward
by Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife.
The wolf’s carcass was
discovered in April and taken
to a federal lab in Ashland
for a necropsy. The results
were not announced until
Wednesday . The animal had
one or more gunshot wounds,
according to U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service . It’s not clear
when the wolf was shot.
A year earlier, on Oct. 6,
2016, an Oregon wolf des-
ignated OR-28 was found
By ERIC MORTENSON
EO Media Group
State and federal wildlife
offi cials are investigating the
death of a second wolf dis-
covered in the Fremont-Wen-
ema National Forest of s outh-
ern Oregon in the past year.
The U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service offered a $5,000
reward for information lead-
ing to the arrest of the per-
son responsible for shooting a
gray wolf designated OR-33
dead in the national forest.
That carcass also was exam-
ined at the Ashland lab, but
the cause of death hasn’t been
announced. Brent Lawrence,
Fish and Wildlife Service
spokesman, said the case is
still open. The federal agency
and Oregon State Police are
jointly investigating.
The wolf deaths are not
necessarily related. State
Department of Fish and Wild-
life spokeswoman Michelle
Dennehy said the sites where
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Leo Kenneth Leard Jr., 88, was born Dec. the American Legion Post 99, where he was a
18, 1928, to Leo (Pop Leard) and Ina (Van commander from 1975 to 1976.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Millie;
Camp) Leard in Astoria, Oregon. Leo grew up
in Seaside and graduated from Seaside High two daughters, Viki McDonald of Kelso, Wash-
ington, and Kathi Winslow
School in 1948.
of Vancouver, Washing-
He enlisted in the
ton; and a son, Keith, of
Marine Corps after high
Elkh orn, Nebraska. He has
school. He worked as an
several grandchildren and
instructor for plane sim-
great-grandchildren, and
ulators and in mainte-
a niece and a nephew. He
nance at his duty stations
was preceded in death by a
throughout the U.S. He
daughter, Sherri Schlappi,
retired from the Marines
and a sister, Phyllis Card.
as a master gunnery ser-
A private military
geant in 1969, and moved
Leo Leard Jr.
graveside service will be
his family back to Seaside.
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017,
He worked for Colum-
bia Oil for several years, and decided to buy at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.
We would like to thank Hospice for all
Service Oil with his brother-in-law, Frank Brad-
ford, and his friend, Hank. Years later, he sold the special care that was given to d ad. A spe-
the business and went back to work for the mil- cial thank you to his nurse, Mia, and his case-
worker, Lindsey, from Hospice, and the won-
itary civil service in Fort Lewis, Washington.
Leo was very active in his community. He derful staff at Highlander Place. You all are
belonged to the Elks Lodge in Seaside and to truly our angels.
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Coast Guard hoisted two
women off a rock near Hug
Point State Park Thursday
evening after they beca me
ment. An MH-60 Jayhawk
crew from Air Station Astoria
arrived around 6:30 p.m. and
deployed a rescue swimmer.
The women were hoisted and
taken to emergency medical
services in Cannon Beach.
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tracking collar, but it quit
transmitting in August 2016,
according to the state .
OR-28 was a 3-year old
female that was collared in
June 2014 and dispersed
from the Mount Emily pack
in November 2015. Within a
month, tracking collar data
showed it had traveled more
than 450 miles and was in the
Silver Lake area in s outh c en-
tral Oregon. The wolf paired
up with a male, OR-3, and
had at least one pup.
Coast Guard hoists beachgoers stranded by tide
La Grande
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Ontario
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Klamath Falls
21/58
Four Harl Butte Pack wolves
have been shot since August
and the state recently autho-
rized killing four more. One
Meacham Pack wolf was shot
before lethal authorization
expired.
The two wolves found
dead both dispersed from
n ortheast Oregon.
OR-33, a male estimated
to be 4-years-old, left the
Imnaha Pack in November
2015 and was not known to
be part of a pack. It wore a
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Portland
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Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.51"
Month to date ................................... 1.23"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.64"
Year to date .................................... 54.44"
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Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 58°/47°
Normal high/low ........................... 62°/45°
Record high ............................ 79° in 1939
Record low ............................. 34° in 1981
New
TUESDAY
the wolves were found are
“geographically far apart.”
Still, conservation groups
and wolf activists have long
warned that wolf poach-
ing is going on, and ques-
tion whether the state is doing
enough to protect them.
The news about OR-33 also
comes on the heels of Oregon
authorizing “lethal control”
on the Harl Butte and Mea-
cham wolf packs in n orth-
east Oregon for repeated live-
stock attacks this summer.
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