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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.
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weeks to enroll in private
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on Thursday.
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92,000 have already en-
rolled.
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doned the Cover Oregon por-
tal and switched to Health-
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through Cover Oregon have
to re-enroll via the federal
site.
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egonians who qualify for
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who purchase it directly from
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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
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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
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the Oregon countryside.
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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
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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.
The land also has a curi-
ous history.
Dick Noble was raised on
a farm.
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SUNDAY
Periods of clouds
and sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
Cloudy, a shower
in the p.m.
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43° 33°
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TUESDAY
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Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
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43° 39°
52° 39°
50° 37°
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33°
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28°
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29°
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Feb 11
New
Feb 18
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tonight.
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campus library at Oregon
State University.
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learned about the video
Tuesday, but it apparently
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semester and posted on the
Web.
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State Police investigated
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Democrat.
The issue is who
calculates the worth of
utility companies for tax
purposes, the state or
county assessors.
About 600 companies
in Oregon are centrally
assessed, by the state
Department of Revenue.
Those include airlines,
railroads and pipeline
owners. The state agency’s
assessments are higher
because it takes into
account intangibles such as
a company’s brand.
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pleasant. Mainly clear tonight.
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— Oregon lawmakers
are moving quickly to
deal with a property-
tax question blamed for
blocking major projects
planned by Google and
Apple.
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Portland area and an
expansion of a data center
in central Oregon.
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is a top priority in the
legislative session that
begins next week, said Sen.
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year raised the possibility
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central Oregon computer-
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Facebook and Amazon,
and may have led Google
to pass over Portland in
its most recent plans for
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decision threw this all into
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a problem,” said Hass, a
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 81° in Zapata, Texas
Low -27° in Berlin, N.H.
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