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Public archaeological dig to start July 16 at Kam Wah Chung
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Archaeol-
ogists excavating the grounds
at the former Gleason Pool
site are hosting a public dig
on July 16.
The excavation is part
of the eff ort to prepare the
space for an expansion of
the Kam Wah Chung State
Heritage Site. The public
will not be invited to do any
digging themselves, but will
be allowed to observe and
ask questions of the archaeol-
ogists on site performing the
excavations.
Chelsea Rose, Southern
Oregon University histori-
cal archaeologist and direc-
tor of the SOU Laboratory of
Anthropology, said her team
will be starting the excava-
tion on Monday, July 11. She
said the public is welcome to
observe excavation efforts
before the public dig, but the
best chance for the public to
ask questions of the archaeol-
ogists on site will be on Satur-
day the 16th.
The public dig will start
at 9 a.m. and go till 3 p.m.
There will also be exhibits by
Southern Oregon University,
Oregon State Parks, Malheur
National Forest and John Day
Fossil Beds National Monu-
ment.
“They will all be having
exhibits and hands-on things
and that kind of stuff so people
Justin Davis/Blue Mountain Eagle
A Tidewater Construction crew begins demolishing Gleason Pool in John Day on May 23, 2022.
can come and learn about
local history and the archae-
ology as well,” Rose said.
The dig will be followed
by a public lecture from artist
and poet Sam Roxas-Chua
Yao from 4 to 6 p.m. in the
theater room at the Canyon
City Community Center.
The lecture by Roxas-Chua
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Rose said she expects she
and the other archaeologists
are going to fi nd “great stuff ”
during the excavation.
Baker City bear released in Wallowas
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City herald
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to do after their fi rst birthday.
“I think it just wandered
into town and got caught after
daylight where it didn’t want
to be,” Ratliff said.
He said there were no
reports of the bear nosing into
garbage cans or other behav-
ior that could suggest the
bear was comfortable around
people.
In those cases, ODFW
offi cials are likely to kill the
bear rather than trap it and
release it in the wild.
Ratliff said the foothill
above the city’s southwest
corner probably is a travel
corridor for wildlife, includ-
ing the occasional bear.
Another yearling bear
was tranquilized in Novem-
ber 2015 in a backyard near
11th and Myrtle streets, less
than half a mile from Foothill
Drive.
ODFW biologists also
tranquilized and released
that bear.
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83/47
BAKER CITY — Baker
City’s most famous black bear
— or at least the most photo-
graphed — is likely roam-
ing today somewhere in the
southern Wallowa Mountains.
Which is better bear habi-
tat than a birch tree between
two apartment buildings.
The bear, which ran
through part of Quail Ridge
Golf Course on Sunday
morning, July 3, then crossed
Foothill Drive and climbed
that tree, ended up tranquil-
ized and in a cage later that
morning.
Brian Ratliff , district wild-
life biologist at the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife’s Baker City offi ce,
fi red the tranquilizer dart that
gave the yearling male bear a
temporary nap.
The sleeping bear got
stuck, however, in the tree
about 25 feet above the
ground.
Jeff Smith, who owns J2K
Excavating and lives on Foot-
hill Drive, off ered the use of
his bucket lift to retrieve the
bear.
Ratliff said the bear awoke
in the cage about 11:30 a.m.
on July 3, a little more than
an hour after he fi red the tran-
quilizer dart.
“By noon it was mobile,”
Ratliff said of the bear.
He released the bear in the
Eagle Creek area northeast of
Baker City.
“It ran straight down a
hill,” he said. “It did not want
to stick around, which is
exactly what we like to see.”
That behavior is typical of
a truly wild animal that is not
accustomed to being around
people, Ratliff said.
He said he suspects the
bear, which weighed about
150 pounds, had separated
from its mother, as bears tend
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“For archaeologists, we
can get insanely excited about
a broken bottle because if it
tells us a little bit more about
that community, then that’s
all really exciting, important
stuff ,” she said.
Expectations are to fi nd
evidence of what other
buildings, businesses and
residences were in that neigh-
borhood, what the community
was like and how long people
lived there.
“We’re doing that not only
to get more information about
Oregon’s Chinese residents
but also to see how the park
can incorporate those stories
into their new interpretive
center and as they update
the infrastructure of the park
itself, so that is kind of the
goal,” Rose said.
Rose said the purpose of
the public dig is for people to
feel like they get to participate
in something that is import-
ant to the community of John
Day.
“We’re doing the hard
work, we’ll dig in the
compacted gravel for them.
They get to see the exciting
stuff that comes out,” she said.
“I think the main thing is
just to know how lucky people
are to be living near such an
important archaeological and
historic site.”
Rose also added that she
hopes people will get excited
and participate in the public
day and the free talk and build
on the outreach that has been
ongoing for the past several
years encouraging folks to
get to know the larger history
of the region.
Male Chesnimnus wolf
trapped, killed
permit only if an additional wolf is removed
or the permit is reissued.
WALLOWA COUNTY — A 2-year-old
male wolf was removed from the Chesnim-
nus pack Monday, July 4, under a kill permit
issued June 17 by the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife, according to a press
release.
The pack has been deemed responsible
for numerous livestock kills this year despite
nonlethal eff orts to ward off the attacks.
The wolf killed July 4 was removed under
a kill permit that is good until July 17.
The wolf was caught in a foothold trap set
by ODFW and then tranquilized before it was
euthanized.
Traps had been set as part of eff orts to
radio-collar members of the pack (prefera-
bly a breeding adult) as there were no active
collars in the Chesnimnus pack.
A yearling female was trapped, collared,
and safely released on June 29. ODFW has
suspended its trapping eff orts in this area.
Another update will be posted about this
Yetter coming to
Northeastern Oregon
LA GRANDE — Dr. Joseph Yetter, the
Democratic candidate for Oregon’s Second
Congressional District, is on the road.
Monday, July 11, Yetter will start a multi-
day trip around the northeastern and central
parts of Oregon’s 2nd District. He will visit
with supporters, voters and community
groups who have not yet met the retired army
colonel, who owns a small farm in Azalea.
Yetter will be in Pendleton and Hermiston
July 12 and 13, La Grande on July 14, Enter-
prise on July 15 and Baker City on July 16.
“What I hope to get out of this trip is to see
more of the beautiful district we call home,
meet more of its amazing residents and listen
to what they want their Congressperson to do
to better represent them,” Yetter said.
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