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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Governor to propose GMO bill Wandering wolf gets pack status
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
By JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon Gov.
John Kitzhaber will propose
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istence among biotech, con-
ventional and organic crops.
Details of the proposal ha-
ven’t yet been disclosed and
the legislative language will
likely be amended before an
actual bill is introduced, said
Richard Whitman, the gover-
nor’s natural resources policy
director.
“The anticipation is there
will be more conversation
among stakeholders before
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man said.
A task force on genetically
GRANTS PASS — Or-
egon’s famous wandering
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cially the leader of his own
pack.
State and federal wild-
life agencies said Wednes-
day they have designated
OR-7, his mate and their
pups the Rogue Pack, for
their location in the Rogue
River drainage in the Cas-
cades east of Medford.
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ern Oregon and the ninth in
the state since wolves from
Idaho started swimming the
Snake River in the 1990s.
As a youngster, OR-7
left his pack in northeast-
ern Oregon in September
2011 in search of a mate.
He traveled thousands of
miles across Oregon and
back and forth into North-
-
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Gov. John Kitzhaber talks to the editorial staff at the
East Oregonian in June in Pendleton. Kitzhaber
“control area” authority over
biotech crops, said Maluski.
Currently, ODA can re-
strict where genetically en-
gineered crops are planted as
long as the USDA retains ju-
risdiction over them, but the
state agency believes it loses
that power once the crop is
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cials.
State legislation could
establish that ODA may still
create or retain “control ar-
eas” even after USDA lifts its
own restrictions on biotech
crops, said Maluski.
to have helped Kitzhaber de-
cide on a course of action.
In 2013, the Oregon legis-
lature pre-empted most local
governments from restricting
Kitzhaber’s urging.
The governor then ap-
pointed a task force to frame
the controversy over geneti-
inform lawmakers’ decisions
on possible statewide legisla-
tion.
The task force’s recently
completed report does not
make any policy recommen-
dations but lays out the points
of contention between critics
and proponents of genetical-
ly engineered crops.
However, its members
did agree that more clarity is
needed about the state’s role
in regulating GMOs and how
it diverges from federal au-
thority.
The main question now
is what measures Kitzhaber
or state lawmakers will put
forward to prevent unwant-
ed cross-pollination among
these crops or if farmers can
agree on a voluntary system
control areas could require
biotech farmers to maintain
“isolation distances” to mit-
igate the risk of cross-polli-
nation with non-GMOs, he
said.
“It’s going to be on a case-
by-case basis, as it should
be,” Maluski said.
Another concept involves
compensating organic and
conventional growers if their
crops are contaminated by
pollen from biotech plants,
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tive director of Oregon Tilth,
-
cy.
There should be a way
to compensate non-GMO
farmers for damages from
cross-pollination
that
wouldn’t require them to buy
insurance policies, he said.
Proponents of biotechnol-
ogy say farmers who grow
biotech, conventional and
organic crops can work out
their differences without in-
terference from the govern-
ment.
“Farmers have learned to
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lette Pyle, grass roots director
“All eyes are going to be
on the legislature and what
the governor is planning to
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ecutive director of Friends of
Family Farms, which wants
stronger biotech regulation.
“This task force marks the
beginning of the process, not
the end.”
One subject of debate
will probably be the Oregon
Department of Agriculture’s
for Oregonians for Food and
Shelter, an agribusiness in-
dustry group.
between cherry growers and
wheat farmers over drift from
2,4-D herbicides threatened
to spur legislation or erupt
into litigation, but neighbors
were ultimately able to re-
solve the issue through com-
munication, Pyle said.
The potential for biotech
varieties to pollinate organic
crops isn’t actually a problem
under USDA organic rules,
which regulate farm practic-
es but don’t set up standards
for genetic purity, she said.
“The organic folks have
put themselves in that market
PORTLAND (AP) —
A lawsuit claims the Ore-
gon Lottery misleads vid-
eo poker players to think
they’ll do better if they
let the machines play the
cards.
Plaintiff Justin Curzi
told Oregon Public Broad-
casting he noticed the issue
when using the “auto-hold”
feature. It chooses what
cards to keep or discard in
advertise their product any
way they want, but they’ve
got to accept responsibility.”
Bills that would increase
government oversight of bio-
tech crops would actually im-
card draw poker.
Curzi said the machines
didn’t always make the
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ple, he said, the machine
would hold cards most
likely to give him a straight
when other available cards
would have given him a
crop choices for farmers, said
Greg Loberg, manager of the
West Coast Beet Seed Co.
“It sounds threatening,”
he said. “There will be win-
ners and losers in a situation
where government interven-
tion occurs through legisla-
tion.”
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that the auto-hold function
produced worse odds but
did nothing to change the
games or warn players.
“The lottery knows how
the players perceive the
auto-hold, and the lottery
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mative to address that per-
ception,” he told The Ore-
gonian newspaper.
Using lottery docu-
ments, Zollinger said he
calculated that the lower
odds cost players $134 mil-
lion in lower credits over
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more packs produced pups
that survived through the
end of the year. The earliest
a proposal could go before
the Oregon Fish and Wild-
life Commission is April,
said spokeswoman Mi-
chelle Dennehy. Delisting
would not mean an end to
protections for wolves, but
would give ranchers more
options for dealing with
wolves that attack live-
stock.
OR-7 has continued to
stay out of trouble as far as
livestock are concerned.
Oregon’s management
plan calls for protections to
continue for the Rogue Pack
until there are four packs in
western Oregon producing
pups for three years run-
ning. Federal Endangered
Species Act protection also
remains in force in western
Oregon and California.
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clined comment, which is
common for state agencies
facing litigation. The lot-
tery’s website warns play-
ers they may not do as well
relying on the machine:
“Auto-hold strategies vary
by game, based on the par-
ticular features of a game
and do not necessarily re-
sult in theoretical payouts.”
Curzi’s attorney, Jay
Zollinger, says the notice is
too obscure, and documents
he obtained through a pub-
lic records request show the
lottery knows through re-
search that players believe
the machine will use the
best strategy.
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nomah County claims lot-
higher payout.
measures for biotech, con-
ventional and organic crops
would be preferable to those
mandated by regulators, he
said.
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ers in Oregon’s Willamette
Valley are already able
to reduce the chances of
cross-pollination among re-
lated crops through a volun-
tary mapping system, Loberg
said.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
ing a mate last winter in the
southern Cascades on the
Rogue River-Siskiyou Na-
tional Forest.
The GPS collar that
tracked his travels is still
working, but biologists
hope to replace it this
spring.
Efforts to trap OR-7, his
mate or one of the pups to
put a tracking collar on
them were not successful
last fall, said U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service biologist
John Stephenson. They
hope to have better luck this
May, when the pack dens
up for more pups.
Even if the GPS track-
ing collar fails, a separate
unit on the collar that emits
a radio signal that can be
tracked by a directional
antenna should continue
working, Stephenson said.
Oregon could consider
lifting state Endangered
Species Act protections for
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