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Saturday, July 6, 2019
Protecting cattle from wolves in Southern Oregon
every ranch, but it’s an
important thing to do at
this ranch because it’s so
close to the Rogue Pack,
a very important pack for
wolf recovery in Western
Oregon,” said Joseph Vaile,
executive director of Klam-
ath-Siskiyou
Wildlands
Center, the group behind the
GoFundMe campaign.
Gray wolves in Western
Oregon are currently pro-
tected under endangered
species law, and thus it’s ille-
gal to kill them. The Trump
administration has recently
announced its intention to
delist the gray wolf. The
Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife has sup-
ported the federal delisting,
although Gov. Kate Brown
has said she doesn’t support
the move nationally. Ore-
gon removed wolves from
its endangered species list
in 2015.
The Rogue Pack is well
known in the region, in part
because of its famous found-
ing wolf OR-7. The wolf
wandered 1,000 miles from
the Imnaha pack in North-
east Oregon to the southwest
part of the state and North-
ern California. In 2014, the
Rogue Pack was the first
pack to form and settle in
Western Oregon in more
than a half century. In the
past couple years, the pack
has started killing livestock.
“Far and away the major-
By JES BURNS
Oregon Public Broadcasting
ROSEBURG — A con-
servation group in South-
ern Oregon has launched a
crowd-funding campaign
to help build a tall fence
around a local ranch. Eight
cows and two dogs at Jack-
son County’s Mill-Mar
Ranch have been killed by
the Rogue Wolf Pack.
“The federal guys and
the state guys and the Wild-
life Services, everybody has
done everything in their
power to help alleviate this
situation,” said ranch owner
Ted Birdseye.
Birdseye said once he
and his crew started figur-
ing all the time they were
spending trying to protect
his property, “I think they
finally just go, ‘We need to
put up a permanent fence
around this place to keep
those wolves out.’”
But building a 3-mile
long, 6-foot high electric
fence is not cheap — the
estimate comes in at around
$45,000. The fence will
mostly be paid for by state
and federal wolf funds, but
the conservation group K-S
Wild has stepped in to raise
the final $6,000. They say
the money will help make
the case that ranches and
wolves can co-exist.
“This isn’t the type of
thing that you can do at
Photo courtesy of Allen Daniels
The only known photograph of the wandering wolf, OR-7, was taken by a trail camera in
Southern Oregon late last year. Eventually, this member of a Northeast Oregon pack crossed
the state line into California.
ity of damage in Western
Oregon has occurred at this
one particular property,”
said Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife biologist
Steve Niemela.
Part of the reason is
that the property is near
the epicenter of the Rogue
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“Its geographic posi-
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This is especially true
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wolves have been more
likely to go after cows. Bird-
Audit: State cybersecurity
needs a major update
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Oregon Capital Bureau
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seye says that unlike many
of his ranching neighbors,
he keeps his 200 head of cat-
tle in Oregon year-round.
“So of course, I’m the
primary supporter of the
wolves in the wintertime
for their meals, it seems
like,” Birdseye said with a
rueful laugh.
Birdseye has been ranch-
ing on the property near the
town of Prospect for four
years. Working with state
and federal wildlife agen-
cies, he was successful at
keeping the Rogue Pack
away for the first couple
years. He used electrified
wiring and flagging, called
fladry, but the wolves even-
tually acclimated.
Then came a string of
other deterrent strategies.
“The landowner has
a number of guardian
dogs. We had a volunteer
bone pile collection party.
The landowner has been
removing carcasses. We’ve
had night patrols, chas-
ing wolves around in the
middle of the night,” said
Niemela.
“The Defenders of Wild-
life actually sent me a cou-
ple of dancing men — a
couple of the used car lot
advertising men that wrig-
gle in the wind. … Every-
one was hoping that those
were going to be the silver
bullet,” Birdseye said.
But none of these tactics
worked — the inflatable
dancing men failed in just a
few months.
The fence is the next
big push. Birdseye says the
hope is that it will be con-
structed at the end of sum-
mer before the wolves move
back into the neighborhood.
SALEM — Auditors say
Oregon’s central adminis-
trative agency lacks basic
controls to protect its infor-
mation and systems from a
cyber attack.
That means the Depart-
ment of Administrative
Services’ information and
systems are at risk for “unau-
thorized use, disclosure, or
modification,”
according
to a report released July 3
by Secretary of State Bev
Clarno.
Auditors used six crite-
ria from the Center for Inter-
net Security to evaluate
the agency’s basic security
controls.
“The security of Ore-
gon’s data is a serious issue,”
Clarno said in a statement.
“DAS should take imme-
diate action to address the
findings outlined in this
report.”
Auditors said a frag-
mented organizational struc-
ture and approach to manag-
ing security concerns may
be part of the problem. The
agency’s roughly 30 subdivi-
sions “receive varying levels
of support” from the agen-
cy’s IT department, which
supports only 16 of the 85
applications that workers
use. The rest are supported
by non-IT employees scat-
tered throughout those divi-
sions, and don’t receive over-
sight or involvement from
the agency’s IT department,
auditors said.
That has created inconsis-
tency, and means the agen-
cy’s subdivisions may not be
aligning with best practices
when it comes to security.
Auditors said cyber-
threats are a growing worry.
“Cyberattacks, whether big
or small, are a growing con-
cern for both the private
and public sector,” auditors
wrote. “Recent breaches at
Oregon state agencies have
only escalated this concern.”
In January, the sensitive
information of more than
600,000 people was compro-
mised after nine employees
at the Department of Human
Services opened a phishing
email and clicked on a link
“that gave the sender access
to their email accounts,”
according to that agency.
Agency leaders said they
agreed with auditors’ recom-
mendations, and plan to start
implementing some of them
by 2021.
“We are committed to
improve our efforts in this
area going forward,” wrote
the state’s Chief Operat-
ing Officer Katy Coba, and
Chief Information Officer
Terrence Woods, in a letter
responding to the audit.
DAS has its own IT
department, in addition to
housing the state chief infor-
mation officer, which is a
separate office that oversees
IT and policy for all state
agencies.
In 2016, Gov. Kate
Brown ordered that state
agency
cybersecurity
responsibilities be con-
solidated within the Chief
Information Office.
Oregon pseudoephedrine bill fails
By KRISTIAN FODEN-
VENCIL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
SALEM — Pseudo-
ephedrine is an efficient way
for someone with a cold to
get decongested.
It’s also an ingredient in
methamphetamine. That’s
why, in 2006, Oregon was
the first state in the nation to
require a prescription to buy
pseudoephedrine.
But drug manufac-
tures have since devel-
oped a computer system,
NPLEx, to track purchases
across 35 states, said Car-
los Gutierrez with the
Consumer Health Care
Products Association.
Pharmaceutical makers
also pay for that system, so
Oregon could use it for free,
he said.
“It would limit sales to
3.6 grams in a day,” Gutier-
rez said. “In exchange, peo-
ple wouldn’t have to go to the
doctor and they’d be able to
buy at their local pharmacy.”
He said that meth is sel-
dom cooked in residential
homes anymore. Instead,
production has moved to
larger facilities across the
border in Mexico.
But opponents to over-
the-counter sales point out
that requiring prescrip-
tions stops what’s known as
“Group Smurfing.” That’s
when a meth cook uses a
group of people to each buy
up to their pseudoephedrine
limit.
“You all sell that pseu-
doephedrine … for maybe
double what you bought it
for. You may have a million
reasons to do that, because
you’re addicted, you’re
homeless, you’re a college
kid, whatever,” said Rob
Bovett, legal counsel for
the Association of Oregon
Counties.
He said that gives meth
cooks a local supply, and
that’s something they can’t
obtain if a prescription
is required.
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