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Saturday, December 2, 2017
East Oregonian
OSP grapples with poaching, waste
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Wildlife
troopers
in Eastern Oregon are
investigating a string of
animal poaching and waste
cases that occurred over
the Thanksgiving holiday
weekend.
The Oregon State Police
Fish and Wildlife Division
in Baker City is asking the
public for help identifying
whomever is responsible for
shooting and wasting three
mule deer, including one
buck and two does, that were
discovered Saturday, Nov.
25 on private property off of
Hunt Mountain Lane.
Both does were shot,
driven over by a vehicle and
left to waste, according to
OSP. The buck was also shot,
had its antlers removed and
left to waste. Anyone with
information is asked to call
the Turn-In-Poachers hotline
at 1-800-452-7888 or Sgt.
Isaac Cyr at 541-523-5867,
Photo contributed by Oregon State Police
The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division in Bak-
er City is asking for help locating those responsible for the
unlawful taking and waste of three mule deer that were
found on private property off of Hunt Mountain Lane.
ext. 4170.
Callers can remain anony-
mous, and may be eligible for
a reward offered through the
Oregon Hunters Association.
Meanwhile in Umatilla
County, the OSP Fish
and Wildlife Division is
following up on another
batch of cases involving
animals that were dumped
and left to waste on Saturday,
Nov. 25. Sgt. Tim Brown
said one of the incidents
involved two elk carcasses
located near the Athena
Cemetery, and the second
involved two deer carcasses
left along East Birch Creek
Road near Pilot Rock.
Both cases remain under
investigation. Brown said
the animals may have
been harvested legally, but
dumping and leaving meat to
waste are crimes.
“This is kind of a common
occurrence toward the end of
elk season,” he said.
A small doe was also
found Nov. 25 two miles
up Government Mountain
Road near Milton-Freewater,
which had apparently been
shot and left to waste the
previous evening. Brown
said that is most likely a
poaching case, and is under
investigation.
Brown said troopers were
busier than normal over the
weekend, which he largely
attributed to the holiday.
“Obviously, with the
holiday weekend we had
more people out and about,
recreating,” Brown said.
“The potential for more
violations is there.”
Crow’s Shadow celebrates holiday open house
East Oregonian
Tour the printmaking
studio, view artwork and
enjoy light refreshments
during the annual Holiday
Open House at Crow’s
Shadow Institute of the Arts.
In addition, people are
invited to help bid farewell
to longtime master printer
Frank Janzen, and his wife,
Marie, who has volunteered
countless hours assisting in
the studio. Janzen, who is
a graduate of the Tamarind
Institute in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, has been at
Crow’s Shadow for 16 years.
The open house and
retirement party is Sunday
from 1-4 p.m. at 48004 St.
Andrew’s Road, Mission.
Admission is free.
Some of the newest prints
currently on display on the
gallery walls include works
by founder James Lavadour,
as well as 2017 artists-in-res-
idence participants Demian
DinéYazhi (Diné), Marie
Watt (Seneca), Modou Dieng
(Senegal) and Joe Cantrell
(Cherokee).
Housed in the historic St.
Andrews Mission school,
Crow’s Shadow was formed
in 1992. Janzen’s tenure
at the art institute began in
2001 when he became the
first full-time resident master
printer.
Janzen’s expertise has
been at the heart of the
success at Crow’s Shadow.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
referred to him as “the artist
whisperer” in a September
interview.
Through his work at
Crow’s Shadow, Janzen has
worked with hundreds of
professional artists, emerging
artists and guided students in
the art of printmaking.
Crow’s Shadow has
received both national and
international
attention,
including with Making
Marks: Prints from Crow’s
Shadow Press. It features 18
works by seven American
Indian artists who worked in
collaboration with Janzen. It
was on exhibit at the National
Museum of the American
Indian, which is part of the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., and the
George Gustav Heye Center,
the museum’s New York
branch.
For more information,
contact nika@crowsshadow.
org, 541-276-3954, or visit
www.crowsshadow.org.
PENDLETON
Local agencies get training on crash scene response
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
In the eastbound lane of
Interstate 84 near the Pend-
leton Keystone RV plant, a
semi-truck has slid into the
median, its trailer flipped over
and completely blocking the
left lane.
Emergency
responders
want to clear the area of
traffic, but some pressing
questions remain. How
should firefighters position
their
vehicles?
Where
should they place the safety
cones? What were the best
in-the-moment
decisions
to avoid it from becoming
infinitely worse?
Luckily for the responders,
it wasn’t a real situation, but a
simulation with toy cars and
paper roads within the safe
confines of the Pendleton Fire
Station.
Guided by state officials
and a towing professional,
ODOT held a half-day
training in Pendleton Friday
on traffic impact manage-
ment to a room full of local
firefighters,
paramedics,
transportation workers and
police officers.
The goal was to train this
group of professionals in how
to avoid second collisions,
a situation where a traffic
incident is made worse when
another vehicle collides into
the scene.
EO file photo
A Pendleton Police officer directs traffic at the intersec-
tion of Highway 395 and Perkins Avenue on August 1,
2017, after a transmission interruption during a thun-
derstorm knocked out power to Pendleton residents.
The instructors played
video after video from
across the country showing
the pile-ups and secondary
accidents that can spring from
routine responses to situations
like a dead animal in the road
or a single-car accident off the
shoulder.
Dangerous brushes with
passing motorists are felt
closer to home as well. Pend-
leton firefighter/paramedic
Lorne Becker described the
experience of responding to
an emergency near Wood-
pecker Truck & Equipment
on I-84.
“They get in the other lane,
but they don’t slow down,”
he said. “It’s difficult when
you’re trying to take care of
someone.”
Darin Weaver, the incident
management coordinator for
ODOT and called the kind
of motorists who tend to be
behind second collisions
“D drivers,” the D standing
for drunk, drugged, drowsy,
districted and “just plain
dangerous.”
“I think we actually have
more ‘D drivers’ on the road
than safe, attentive, defensive
drivers,” he said.
Although police and fire-
fighters are generally recog-
nized for putting themselves
in harm’s way, Weaver said
they’re much more likely to
die from a secondary collision
than they are from a shooting
or fire.
According to statistics
provided by ODOT, five
firefighters die each year
and one police officer dies
every month from secondary
collisions.
Tow truck operators —
often the last person at a
highway scene — die at a rate
equivalent to one per week.
Not helping the matter is
an increasing number of fatal
collisions, which each require
attention from law enforce-
ment and other government
agencies. According to
ODOT, there were 410 fatal
collisions in Oregon in 2015,
a huge jump from 321 in 2014
and 292 in 2013.
One factor that could help
reduce secondary collisions is
making the public aware of
a law already on the books.
Cars that get into a collision
but are still operable must
leave the travel lanes.
Weaver said many drivers’
failure to observe this law is
less the fault of the general
public and more a responsi-
bility of public agencies to
spread the word about it.
Another lesser known fact
is that law enforcement has
the ability to move cars and
cargo involved in a collision
to improve traffic safety.
Matt Zintel, a trooper with
the OSP’s office in The Dalles,
said safety takes priority over
evidence when it comes to
fatal traffic investigations.
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Dead llama ruled
‘probable’ wolf attack
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Wolves may very well
be responsible for killing a
250-pound adult llama on a
private forested pasture in
Union County, though the
Oregon Department of Fish
& Wildlife stopped short of
confirming the incident as a
wolf attack.
Investigators
instead
ruled it a “probable”
wolf attack, taking place
just 10 miles away from
where wolves with the
Meacham pack preyed
on cattle at Cunningham
Sheep Company earlier this
summer.
The landowner found
the dead llama Friday, Nov.
24 about 200 yards from
the residence. The carcass
was mostly intact, except
most of the hide and muscle
tissue along the right rear
leg above the hock and
around the anus had been
consumed.
ODFW arrived the next
day, and according to the
agency’s
investigation
report, the llama likely died
sometime between late
Wednesday, Nov. 22 and
before dark Thursday, Nov.
23. At least two sets of wolf
tracks were seen in the mud
about 20 yards away, which
were one to two days old.
Investigators also docu-
mented trail camera photos
taken about 300 yards from
the carcass, showing a wolf
moving toward the area on
Nov. 23.
However, wounds to the
llama were not consistent
with extensive wolf-caused
injuries, the report went on
to state. Taking all evidence
into consideration, the
agency determined that
“there
was
sufficient
evidence to confirm preda-
tion on the llama by a large
predator, but not enough
evidence to confirm which
predator.”
The same landowner
also reported another dead
llama earlier in the month,
which had been largely
consumed except for its
neck, head and left shoulder.
ODFW investigated Nov.
14, and determined there
was no evidence of a pred-
ator attack at the scene. The
cause of death is unknown.
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Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0825.
PENDLETON
Council sees more green
than red at next meeting
East Oregonian
The Pendleton City
Council has a recent
tendency to end its year in
a sticky situation.
Tuesday’s meeting will
mark the third consecu-
tive year the council will
discuss an issue relating
to marijuana. In December
2015, the council grappled
with banning marijuana
businesses before ulti-
mately referring it to the
ballot. In December 2016,
the council created market
regulations for cannabis
businesses after a majority
of voters lifted the ban
on selling medical and
recreational marijuana and
imposing a local 3 percent
tax.
The
council
will
continue this unlikely
yuletide tradition on Dec.
5, when members will
consider an appeal to grant
conditional approval for a
proposed marijuana grow
in the Riverside area.
One of the people
behind the appeal is
Brandon Krenzler, the
co-owner of Kind Leaf
Pendleton, the city’s first
legal marijuana dispen-
sary. Kind Leaf bought the
former Riverside Nursery
property with the intention
of growing marijuana
plants in the land’s green-
houses and selling them at
the dispensary.
But when Krenzler
went to the Pendleton
Planning
Commission
to get approval for the
grow on Aug. 14, the
commission rejected his
application on a 2-2 vote.
In an interview after the
meeting, Commissioner
Terry Clarke said he voted
against it because there’s
was too much uncertainty
surrounding
Krenzler’s
application.
Krenzler appealed the
decision to the members of
the city council, who will
make their own choice.
In a letter to the council,
Krenzler wrote that his
current plan is to only use
the current greenhouse
facilities for growing.
The greenhouses will be
surrounded by 6- to 8-foot-
tall fences and shrubbery.
Krenzler
envisions
the grow, which is called
Burnswell Family Farms,
as not only a business
venture but an educational
opportunity.
“Pendleton, Oregon has
increased awareness of
the cannabis industry with
new businesses growing in
our community, creating
jobs as well as increasing
general curiosity. Burn-
swell
Family
Farms
intends on developing into
an educational point of
interest and will allow visi-
tors to our community to
view and learn about culti-
vation of craft cannabis in
Eastern Oregon. Burnswell
Family Farms will also
offer education during
the cultivation season to
increase local awareness
and foster understanding
of our role as a growing
business, an emerging
industry, and as a good
neighbor.”
According to a city staff
report, the council can
either uphold the commis-
sion’s decision, reverse it
or send the case back the
commission for further
consideration.
The council will meet
at 7 p.m. at the council
chambers in city hall, 500
S.W. Dorion Ave.
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