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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Friday, January 30, 2015 Deadline looms for health insurance AP photo by Don Ryan Cover Oregon Executive Director Aaron Patnode, left, is joined by Oregon Insurance Commissioner Laura Cali at a news conference Thursday in Portland. Feb. 15 is the deadline for Oregonians to get private health insurance. PORTLAND (AP) — Or- egonians have just two more weeks to enroll in private health insurance this year, VWDWH RI¿FLDOV UHPLQGHG WKH public at a press conference on Thursday. The deadline is Feb. 15 for buying new coverage or switching carriers or plans, and for qualifying for health insurance tax credits via the federal marketplace portal, HealthCare.gov. More than 92,000 have already en- rolled. Because the state aban- doned the Cover Oregon por- tal and switched to Health- Care.gov, all Oregonians who bought 2014 coverage through Cover Oregon have to re-enroll via the federal site. Previously uninsured Or- egonians who qualify for federal tax subsidies must also use the federal portal to enroll. The deadline applies both to people who buy coverage on HealthCare.gov and those who purchase it directly from carriers. If someone isn’t Where the rhino once roamed new homes for the animals a few years back, and are now down to about a dozen remaining geriatric animals. Most of them are functionally extinct in the wild. The lifetime believers in conservation wanted their land to remain protected when they died, so they con- tacted The Nature Conser- vancy. The agency closed on a $1.5 million purchase in Oc- tober, using money from the Willamette Wildlife Mitiga- tion Program, a fund created WRIXO¿OOWKH%RQQHYLOOH3RZ- Photo courtesy of Nancy Noble er Administration’s obliga- The 470-acre former endangered and exotic animal tion to pay for wildlife con- sanctuary near Willamina was home to 250 animals at servation and restoration in its height, including rhinoceros, giraffes, bongos and the Willamette basin. multiple types of antelopes. Preserving the land pro- While owning livestock “We started on a small tects it from development in ceased to make sense when scale, not thinking it would an area where large tracts are the now 78-year-old former expand to the extent it did,” regularly converted into vine- yards or parceled off for other lawyer went vegetarian back said Nancy Noble, 68. in the 1980s, he still enjoyed The operation outgrew the uses. “I would have hated to see raising animals. So, Dick and Noble’s 50-acre property in his wife, Nancy, began dab- Scholls, so they bought a de- WKHSODFHGLYLGHGXSLQWR¿YH bling in rarer species. funct cattle spread near Willa- acre plots or something like “Initially, it was miniature mina. To protect the animals that,” Nancy Noble said. Noble Oaks is among the donkeys, special sheep and from poachers and other dan- llamas,” Dick Noble said. gers, the sanctuary’s location last spots where the white oak savanna and upland prairie “Then we decided we want- was kept secret. ed to do something that was At one point, the Nobles that once dominated the Wil- useful from a conservation had 250 animals, including lamette Valley continue to standpoint.” more than 20 species of an- thrive. Hundreds of plant and animal species are associated The pair joined the Asso- telope. ciation of Zoos & Aquariums “The idea was to maintain with this dwindling habitat. Work to restore the land and their property became a captive groups of animals breeding farm for the agen- that are threatened or endan- has already begun, but it will cy’s species survival pro- gered so at some point they be years before the public gram. They began taking in might be reintroduced into gets much access to Noble endangered antelope, plus their native habitat,” Dick Oaks. Under the deal, animals rhinoceros, giraffes, red pan- Noble said. das and other species you’d 7ZHQW\¿YH \HDUV ODWHU still remaining at Noble Oaks EHVKRFNHGWR¿QGZDQGHULQJ the Nobles are ready to down- will be allowed to stay there the Oregon countryside. VL]H 7KH\ EHJDQ ¿QGLQJ until the end of their lives. By KELLY HOUSE The Oregonian WILLAMINA — In rural Polk County, conservation- ists plan to shelter Oregon’s streaked horned lark and northern red-legged frog on land where rhinoceros and giraffes once roamed. The Nature Conservancy recently completed purchase of a 470-acre plot near Wil- lamina west of Salem that for nearly two decades served as a sanctuary for rare and en- dangered exotic animals. The sanctuary is all but closed, but African antelope still roam the pastures along- side a mother elk and other native animals that have be- gun to repopulate the land. So-called Noble Oaks Pre- serve isn’t a particularly large grab for the conservancy, but Dan Bell, the group’s Willa- mette Basin Conservation Di- rector, says its location near two other tracts of protected land in the increasingly de- veloped Willamette Valley makes it an important one. “In the valley, something RI WKDW VL]H LV YHU\ VLJQL¿- cant,” Bell said. He calls it a “habitat an- chor” for the area’s wildlife, granting them an uninter- rupted corridor between two adjacent conservation lands, and in close proximity to the Yamhill Oaks Preserve and Basket Slough National Wildlife Refuge. 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