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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,
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caused the state to reduced tim-
manage it for conservation.
Rep. Tobias Read, D-Beaver- ber harvests.
Oregon lost $3 million on the
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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-
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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.
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vague about the type of pub-
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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Astoria
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Enterprise
Hermiston
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La Grande
Salem
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Corvallis 61/48
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John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Eastern Washington: Showers today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Variable
cloudiness today with a shower; mild;
however, dry in the south.
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today and tonight. Mostly cloudy tomorrow
with a little rain.
Cascades: Periods of rain today; however, a
shower in the south.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee
on Friday declared a drought emergency
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 92° in Fullerton, Calif.
Low -5° in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
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