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ODFW kills two more Pine Creek wolves
men’s Association to ask
ODFW to kill more wolves
from the Pine Creek pack
to prevent further livestock
losses.
“The wolves are being seen
on the valley floor, and that’s
what’s really disconcerting
folks,” said George Rollins,
a Baker County rancher and
co-chairman of the OCA
wolf committee for Eastern
Oregon. “So many people
have seen them now, it’s like
daily sightings.”
ODFW quickly followed
through with the request,
shooting
an
uncollared
yearling female and adult
male from a helicopter as
the wolves were spotted on
private land where the latest
depredations occurred. Wild-
By GEORGE PLAVEN
EO Media Group
HALFWAY — The
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife shot two more
wolves from the Pine Creek
pack Wednesday morning in
Baker County, following the
latest in a string of attacks on
livestock.
The most recent depreda-
tions were confirmed Sunday,
April 15 and Monday, April
16 at Pine Creek Ranch in
Halfway, Ore. The pack has
now preyed on livestock five
times in April, killing four
calves and injuring another
six at two different ranches
roughly 5-6 miles apart.
The spate of incidents
prompted the Oregon Cattle-
life officials previously shot
one yearling female from the
Pine Creek pack on April 10
as part of a separate lethal take
permit.
OCA had asked to kill
all wolves in the Pine Creek
pack, with Rollins stating
that incremental take has not
proven effective in changing
the animals’ behavior.
“They just keep coming
back,” he said. “They are not
following the herds of elk that
are on the low hills area.”
Earlier this year, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin researchers
released a study suggesting
that government killing of
wolves may benefit one
farmer or rancher, but by
fracturing the pack it could
actually increase the risk
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND (AP) — A
Beaverton School District
deputy superintendent
who retweeted a claim that
immigrants in the country
without legal permission
“were more dangerous than
assault rifles” and should be
banned from the U.S. has
resigned.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports Steve
Phillips’ resignation came
on Tuesday, a day after the
school district apologized
for his sharing the post
and denounced the tweet.
A petition was also started
calling for Phillips to be fired.
Phillips was one
of two district deputy
superintendents. He was hired
in 2016 after serving as the
superintendent of the Malheur
Education Services District.
His annual salary is $171,148.
He has issued no public
statement on the matter.
A message left at number
listed under Phillips’ name
was not immediately returned
Tuesday.
In a statement Tuesday,
Superintendent Don Grotting
said the district is “committed
to restoring trust in our
community.”
SALEM — Amid a state-
wide housing shortage, the
building permit programs of
25 small municipalities could
be in jeopardy following a
recent state Department of
Justice opinion that using
private-sector consultants
to oversee plan reviews and
building inspections may
violate state law.
The opinion included in a
February DOJ memorandum
could result in new restric-
tions on small jurisdictions
and require them to have
building officials on staff,
city officials said.
Small counties and cities,
such as the rural city of
Aurora, with a population
less than 1,000, don’t have
the resources to hire a
building official. Instead,
those local governments rely
on third-party contractors
to provide building review
services for them.
“This is going to raise
costs in a huge way because
we can’t cover these costs
with our current funding,”
said Aurora Mayor Bill
Graupp. “It will raise costs
in housing especially in
Pamplin Media Group
Dan Lewis, an electrical inspector with Crook County.
Opinions by the Oregon Department of Justice and
Legislative Counsel indicate many small cities may
have to either shut down building programs or hire
building officials with three-digit salaries.
rural Oregon. Low-cost,
low-income housing is hit
the worst, which is what we
are trying to work on in rural
Oregon, and this is a huge
spike in the heart for us.”
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‘Fix what works’
Legislation earlier this
year, House Bill 4086, sought
to address the dilemma by
allowing a regional council
of governments to hire a
building official, which cities
could share to supervise
their building programs and
third-party reviewers and
inspectors. The bill passed
the House 33-23 Feb. 23 but
came to naught in the Senate.
Even
that
solution
presented problems for small
jurisdictions, according to
Michael Weston II, city
manager of King City, who
wrote a letter to lawmakers
in opposition to the bill. King
City in Washington County
has a population of about
3,000 and relies entirely on
contractors to administer its
building program.
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not prepared to handle all of
the cities that would need to
come in,” Graupp said. “The
other alternative is to hire a
permitting inspector to do not
that much work.”
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Some city officials said
they have heard that the
Building Codes Division in
the Department of Consumer
and Business Services plans
to make rules to clarify restric-
tions on the use of third-party
building plan reviewers and
inspectors.
“We were told that we will
need to modify our building
codes inspection program
sometime by end of the year,”
Graupp said. “We were told
that notices would be going
out soon.”
Mark Peterson, a DCBS
spokesman, said Tuesday,
April 17, he could “not
speak” to whether the agency
plans to issue rules or notices
to cities about their building
programs.
Officials with DCBS have
taken the legal opinion “under
advisement,” Peterson said in
an email to the Pamplin/EO
Media Group.
“We would have to contract
with the county or state, and
that is increase in cost, and the
state and county programs are
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(ranchers’) schedules, both
for turning cattle out and
getting spring work done,”
Rollins said.
Jerome Rosa, executive
director for the OCA, said
incremental take of wolves
will not solve the problems
ranchers face, and actually
leads to packs becoming more
aggressive.
“It’s a no-win situation,”
Rosa said.
The Pine Creek pack now
includes five known wolves
— after the three that were
shot — occupying territory
mostly south of the Imnaha
River and east of Halfway to
the Idaho state line. In 2017,
the pack produced at least five
pups that survived to the end
of the year.
were illegally killed in 2017.
Out of 13 total wolf deaths
throughout the year, 12 were
human-caused.
Under Phase III of the
Wolf Conservation and
Management Plan, ODFW
can authorize killing wolves
that make a habit of preying
on livestock in Eastern
Oregon. The species remains
federally protected west of
highways 395, 78 and 95.
Local ranchers had been
using non-lethal deterrents,
according to ODFW, including
burying bone piles, removing
dead cows, patrolling cattle
from daylight to darkness and
moving the animals off of
pastures where the latest wolf
attacks occurred.
“It’s really disrupting
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Beaverton school
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of predation at neighboring
farms up to three miles away.
In this case, ODFW
authorized killing two wolves
from the Pine Creek pack
after back-to-back attacks on
private land leased by rancher
Chad DelCurto. Nine days
later, the pack began preying
on livestock again at Pine
Creek Ranch, about 5-6 miles
away.
Environmental
groups
are staunchly opposed to
killing any wolves in Oregon,
arguing the population is still
too small and fragile. ODFW
recently reported there were at
least 124 wolves statewide at
the end of 2017, an 11 percent
increase over 2016.
Conservationists also point
to four cases of wolves that
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