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3DJH$ NORTHWEST East Oregonian Saturday, March 14, 2015 %LOOZRXOGHQG(OOLRW6WDWH)RUHVWORJJLQJ terim executive director of Cas- cadia Wildlands. Logging of the Elliott and Environmental groups hope other state trust lands historically a bill in the Oregon Legislature generated revenue for Oregon’s will permanently end logging of Common Schools Fund, which the Elliott State Forest and rule provides approximately 1 percent of revenue in the state education out a sale to private investors. Legislation introduced earli- budget and is managed by the er this month would establish a State Land Board. The arrange- system to protect state trust land ment generated more controversy such as the Elliott State Forest, and less revenue in recent years, E\ DOORZLQJ RI¿FLDOV WR WUDQVIHU after lawsuits related to federal- the land to a state agency that will ly protected species in the forest caused the state to reduced tim- manage it for conservation. Rep. Tobias Read, D-Beaver- ber harvests. Oregon lost $3 million on the ton is the chief sponsor of House Bill 3474 to create a trust lands (OOLRWW6WDWH)RUHVWLQ¿VFDO\HDU transfer commission similar to a 2013 and nearly $392,000 in system in Washington. It was in- 2014, because management costs troduced March 2 and is current- exceeded revenue. The prompted ly at the House Committee on the state to auction off three par- Rural Communities, Land Use, cels of land in the forest in 2014, and Water. Sen. Arnie Roblan, before the State Land Board D-Coos Bay, was drafting similar decided to halt any additional legislation and the legislators are auctions. Members of the board — then Gov. John Kitzhaber, now coordinating on the issue. Protecting the Elliott State then-Secretary of State Kate Forest would be a big win for Brown and State Treasurer Ted Wheeler — said in December conservationists. “It’s really been a primary they wanted to sell the Elliott conservation campaign for us for State Forest to another govern- 10 years,” said Josh Laughlin, in- ment agency or public-private partnership. Other options still under consideration would main- tain the forest’s revenue-generat- ing relationship with the school fund, if the state can identify a plan to balance logging with hab- itat conservation for protected ¿VKDQGELUGV(PSOR\HHVDWWKH Department of State Lands are currently developing a process to solicit new ownership proposals for the 84,000 acres in the Elliott forest tied to the state schools fund. The agency is scheduled report on their progress at a June meeting of the State Land Board. The State Land Board was vague about the type of pub- lic-private partnership that could apply to purchase the Elliott State )RUHVWEXWDFRQVXOWLQJ¿UPWLHG to the Kitzhaber administration was already working on just such a proposal. Tom Tuchmann, a contractor advising Kitzhaber on IRUHVWU\DQGFRQVHUYDWLRQ¿QDQFH SROLF\ UHYHDOHG LQ D FRQÀLFW RI interest disclosure that his con- VXOWLQJ ¿UP 86 )RUHVW &DSLWDO LLC, was working with a group of equity investors and other en- tities on a proposal. The idea that the forest could By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau BRIEFLY :68RI¿FLDOVUHVSRQGWR IUDWHUQLW\UDFLDOLQFLGHQW be sold to an entity that would continue logging caused concern among environmental groups, and raised the stakes for them to work on legislation that would provide another option. “(Tuchmann) was promoting an approach we weren’t support- ing at all,” Laughlin said. “You’re basically just moving the conun- drum from the common school fund to equity investors.” Read’s bill would allow the State Land Board and a new Trust Lands Transfer Commis- sion to move any trust land such as the Elliott State Forest into dif- ferent public ownership, such as the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and it would set up a fund to compensate public schools for lost logging revenue. An open question is where the state would get the money to fund transfers of trust land, since it is required to reimburse the Common Schools Fund for the fair market value of the land. Read’s bill would allow lawmak- ers to appropriate money to the fund, and it could also accept gifts, grants, bequests and donat- ed property. PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — About 100 people met with Washington State University president Elson Floyd this week to discuss a February incident when a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity allegedly made a racial slur against a group of young black women. The incident sparked some racial tension on the Pullman campus. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reported that at a meeting on Thursday, Floyd apologized on behalf of the university. But he says he cannot immediately shut down the fraternity or remove university recognition without a formal process. Floyd says the fraternity member involved in the verbal exchange was terminated immediately from Phi Delta Theta by its members. Black Student Union President Cristina Medina says she is worried the investigation is moving too slowly. &RXJDUVLJKWLQJUHSRUWHG LQ%DNHU&LW\ BAKER CITY (AP) — Baker City Police are looking for a big cat. The Baker City Herald reports that a resident saw a cougar Friday morning in the southwestern corner of the city. Police received several reports of sightings in late February. Subsequent searches, including ones with tracking KRXQGVIDLOHGWR¿QGDFRXJDU Early bloom in Rogue Valley too early for many bees harder job than dividing them in holding yards. “I would never tell a pear grow- er, ‘No, I can’t bring you bees.’ If MEDFORD — Warm weather they need them, we make sure we has triggered a Rogue Valley fruit get them, even if it means more tree bloom that has come too early work for us,” he said. for many bees. Without commercial bee polli- Wild bee populations die back nation, pear crop yields could fall in winter, and many newly hatched by 70 to 90 percent. Almond trees EHHV DUHQ¶W ROG HQRXJK \HW WR À\ are even more dependent on com- about gathering nectar and pol- mercial bee pollination, Jacob said. len, said Sarah Red-Laird, founder In the Rogue Valley, wild and executive director of the Ash- bees and hobby beekeepers keep land-based Bee Girl organization, non-commercial bee hive numbers which promotes honeybee conser- high enough to allow for some or- vation and educates beekeepers. chard pollination, he said. “Bees just aren’t quite ready to This year, Red-Laird said, capitalize on this bloom,” she said. many wild bees are out of sync Meanwhile, many commer- with the blooms. cial beekeepers have their insects AP Photo/The Medford Mail Tribune, Bob Pennell About half of wild bees natu- in California pollinating almond expert Sarah Red-Laird looks at early flower and orchard rally die off during winter. They trees, which usually bloom early. Bee bloom on Thursday, March 12, 2015 in Medford. begin rebuilding their numbers in Southern Oregon orchardists, in- cluding pear growers, are scram- almond orchards and bring them ally Jacob takes them to holding the spring, she said. yards and splits the colonies apart “Wild bees don’t overwinter in bling for commercially kept bees back for Rogue Valley orchards. To get his bees ready to polli- to discourage swarming, in which a huge cluster because they have WRSROOLQDWHWKHLUWUHHVZKLFKÀRZ- ered early during recent unseason- nate early-blooming almond trees, EHHV GLYLGH RQ WKHLU RZQ DQG À\ ¿QLWHUHVRXUFHVLQWKHZLQWHU7KH Jacob feeds them pollen substitute away. ones that don’t die cuddle together ably warm temperatures. There is typically a two-week and try to stay warm,” Red-Laird “Pear growers are calling. We’ll patties each year. That triggers ear- get our bees back as quickly as we lier reproduction so his company gap between the California almond explained. “This spring came so can to pears,” said John Jacob, a will have enough bees to meet the bloom and the Rogue Valley pear early and bees haven’t had time to bloom. This year, there is no break catch up with the bloom with the commercial beekeeper and found- demand in California. Commercially kept bees come between the blooms, he said. populations they have. The bloom er of Old Sol Apiaries, based in the back from the almond orchards Jacob will have to take his bee seemed to pop in days and it takes town of Rogue River. He went down to California on with their colony numbers boosted colonies to the pear orchards and three weeks for bees to go from Thursday to retrieve his bees from E\QXWULWLRXVQXWWUHHÀRZHUV8VX- VSOLW WKHP LQ WKH ¿HOG D PXFK egg to adult bee.” By VICKIE ALDOUS Mail Tribune Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper? &all 1--522-255 EeIore 5 S.m.7Xesday tKroXJK )riday or EeIore 1 a.m. SatXrday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY Cloudy and mild with a shower Rain at times A couple of morning showers 67° 49° 58° 43° TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Partly sunny with a shower Beautiful with sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 60° 42° 60° 41° 62° 37° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 69° 49° 60° 38° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 73° 54° 74° (1934) 40° 35° 8° (1906) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.04" 0.50" 1.59" 3.34" 3.01" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 69° 57° 75° (2003) 35° 34° 13° (1941) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.01" 0.41" 1.07" 2.13" 2.65" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Mar 20 Mar 26 7:11 a.m. 6:59 p.m. 2:56 a.m. 12:40 p.m. Full Last Apr 4 64° 39° 66° 35° Seattle 58/44 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 62° 39° Apr 11 Spokane Wenatchee 57/44 64/46 Tacoma Moses 57/40 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 64/45 59/48 56/41 58/38 69/43 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 59/44 66/52 Lewiston 67/49 Astoria 61/49 56/43 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 60/47 Pendleton 58/42 The Dalles 69/49 67/49 64/45 La Grande Salem 62/49 61/50 Albany Corvallis 61/48 62/48 John Day 63/47 Ontario Eugene Bend 69/50 62/50 61/42 Caldwell Burns 70/50 67/45 Medford 68/52 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Showers today. 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The emergency was prompted by near record-low mountain snowpack, which supplies much of the water in the region when it melts in drier summer months. 2I¿FLDOVVDLGWKHZRUVWGURXJKW conditions are in the Olympic Peninsula, the east side of the central Cascade Mountains including Yakima and Wenatchee, and the Walla Walla region. The Department of Ecology has requested $9 million in drought relief from the Legislature. The money, if approved, could be used to help drill emergency wells or deepen existing wells IRUFLWLHVIDUPVDQG¿VKKDWFKHULHVOHDVH water rights or build pumps or pipelines. ClassiÀed Advertising: 1--62-21 Flassi¿eds#eastoreJonian.Fom Single copy price: 1 7Xesday tKroXJK )riday, 1.5 SatXrday Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group *RYGHFODUHVHPHUJHQF\ GURXJKWLQSDUWVRI:DVK 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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