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A3 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2019 HEALTH NOTIFICATION! Farmers, hunters spar over elk damage bills Are You Hard of Hearing? House bill covers Clatsop County By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Legislation aimed at reducing crop damage from elk has pitted Oregon agri- culture groups against hunt- ing organizations that say the proposals will allow for irresponsible killing. The state House and Sen- ate are considering bills under which the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife would issue tags with more fl exible rules for killing elk that consume hay, trample fi elds and damage fences. Proponents of House Bill 3227 and Senate Bill 301 argue that existing tools for managing elk damage have proven to be insuffi cient as populations of the ungulates have increased. “It’s like someone com- ing into your living room every month and say- ing, ‘Give me 25% of your income,’” said state Rep. Greg Barreto, R-Cove, chief sponsor of HB 3227. The specifi cs of each pro- posal are different, but both would call for damage tags to be issued to “persons” rather than “landowners,” which hunting organizations claim will greatly expand the fi eld of people who qual- ify to kill elk. “This bill will allow for the senseless killing of elk during times when elk are most vulnerable,” said Fred Walasavage, board mem- ber of the Oregon Hunters Association. HB 3227 would create an excessive elk damage pilot program for areas in Lin- coln, Tillamook, Clatsop, Union, Morrow, Wallowa and Umatilla counties. The Department of Fish Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Oregon farmers and hunters disagree about two bills aimed at reducing elk damage by changing tag requirements. and Wildlife would sell pilot program tags to people who complain of excessive elk damage, which would include not only landowners but also people who lease property or shareholders of an entity that rents or owns property. The tags would apply only to antlerless elk but there would be no limit on the number of tags per per- son or a minimum acreage requirement to participate in the pilot program. The original version of HB 3227 would allow the use of artifi cial lights to spot elk at night but a proposed amendment would remove that provision. Under SB 301, the Department of Fish and Wildlife would be directed to consider elk overpop- ulation when issuing tags under an existing landowner damage tag program. The bill would also allow such tags to be used by “per- sons” rather than strictly by “landowners.” Two other bills intro- duced in the Senate that dealt with elk damage have died in committee because they weren’t scheduled for a work session by Friday’s legislative deadline. Supporters of the surviv- ing bills argue that current laws and programs intended to help landowners are insuf- fi cient to keep pace with the damage caused by elk. “Hazing runs elk to your neighbors, fencing slows them down,” said Dan Leuthold, a farmer in Tilla- mook County. Elk damage is a serious threat to the fi nancial stabil- ity of Oregon farmers and could lead to the conver- sion of land to “ranchettes” if agriculture isn’t profi table, said Mark Owens, an alfalfa grower and Harney County commissioner. “It’s preservation. It’s not a hunting bill,” Owens said of HB 3227. Representatives of the Oregon Hunters Associ- ation, the Rocky Moun- tain Elk Foundation and the Oregon Bow Hunters told lawmakers the proposals went too far in relaxing tag restrictions. Members of a hunting club, for example, could lease a small parcel under HB 3227 and make the case for receiving limitless pilot program tags, said Paul Donheffner, a board mem- ber of the Oregon Hunters Association. 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