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wallowa.com
April 1, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
Cougars pitch well, hit a ton in opener
for a 15-4 Cougars victory.
“The boys played well all
across the board,” Cougars
coach Thomas Wenke said.
“We didn’t practice at all last
week because of spring break
so it was nice to see the team
come together so well, that
early.” The Cougs also had
only one error in the game.
By Rich Rautenstrauch
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Wallowa Cougars
baseball team opened up
their season playing against
the Weston McEwen/Helix
JV team Monday evening,
March 30. Heavy hitting and
solid pitching paved the way
Wallowa’s Gareth Mur-
ray and Josh Rummell each
pitched two innings to start
the game with Murray re-
cording 4 K’s and Rummell
5. Robert Delancey closed
out the game, only giving up
three runs.
Wallowa had 19 hits in
the game with Gareth Murray
going 3-for-4, Josh Rummell
1-for-4 with 3 RBIs, Noah
Allen, 4-for-4, Micah Fuller
3-for-3 with a walk, Koby
Frye 3-for-4, Robert Delanc-
ey 4-for-4, Austin Lindross
1-for-1 (he hurt his ankle in
the second inning), newcom-
er Micheal Pendarvis 1-for-4
with 3 RBIs, Cameron Salm-
on 0-for-3, Daniel Delancey
1-for-2, and Danny Araya
0-for-2.
Micah Fuller is now on
the baseball team’s roster.
He’ll be a two-sport athlete
this spring sharing track time
with baseball. Coach Wenke
said Micah stole three bas-
es Monday and is one of the
fastest runners he’s seen play-
ing high school ball. “He was
on second base before the
catcher even stood up.” Wen-
ke said.
The Cougars will take a
week off before continuing
their schedule April 8, with
a rematch against Weston at
home.
D AYS WITH D R . S EUSS
E AGLES DROP THREE IN TOURNAMENT
Tate Olsen of
the Joseph
Eagles gets
waved home by
coach Calvin
Word during
a March 27
Les Schwab
Icebreaker
Tournament
game against
the Pilot Rock
Rockets held
in John Day.
Joseph lost the
game 8-3. The
Eagles also lost
to Culver twice,
8-2 and 14-4, in
the tournament.
Cheryl Hoefler/EO Media Group
Courtesy photo
Second-grader Jace Kassahn, left, and Xander
Sarbacher, fourth grade, together enjoy the Dr. Seuss
classic, “Green Eggs and Ham,” during Dr. Seuss Week
at Enterprise School.
Elk talk, tag drawing attract crowd
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
A special presentation on
Rocky Mountain Elk at the
Wallowology Center drew a
packed house on March 27.
Wallowa Land Trust spon-
sored the event with presen-
tations by Mike Hansen for
the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife and Justin
Jones of The Nature Conser-
vancy.
A drawing for a Landown-
er’s Preference bull elk tag
with a two-day guided hunt
on the Conservancy’s land on
the Zumwalt Prairie capped
the evening.
Hansen gave a brief his-
tory of elk in the area, which
he said had dwindled to un-
acceptable numbers at the
close of the 19th century due
to overhunting and the sale of
elk meat to urban areas in the
state. The U.S. government
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from Yellowstone National
Park in 1911 and 1913.
Through intensive man-
agement, elk now number
just under 5,000 in the area.
The herd grew by about
200 animals last year, even
though hunters took about
600 of them.
Hansen also mentioned
the number of elk threat-
en aspen groves and local
shrubbery because elk eat
them when green grass is
scarce. He added that the elk
have caused some damage to
the Zumwalt because of their
large population there as well
as causing damage to farmer
and rancher crops and fenc-
ing. Hansen said about 80
percent of the elk graze on
private land.
The Nature Conservan-
cy owns in excess of 30,000
acres of the 300,000-acre
Zumwalt Prairie. According
to Jones, The Nature Con-
servancy’s mission on the
Zumwalt is promoting and
demonstrating human behav-
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edge for, and respect for,
non-human inhabitants on
the Zumwalt.
Jones mentioned that
the Conservancy is not an-
ti-ranching and in fact leas-
es some of its land to cattle
ranchers. Jones said the Con-
servancy and ranchers have a
generally amicable relation-
ship and he appreciated the
sense of community among
landowners on the Zumwalt.
“So much of the reason the
Zumwalt is still so incredible
is because of the communi-
ty that encourages people to
treat the Zumwalt well, and
that’s been going on for a
long time,” Jones said.
Besides the community,
the Conservancy uses sci-
ence to determine how to
care for its land. “No mat-
ter how good our intentions,
we always want to be trying
to learn something and be
knowledgeable about our
impacts on the non-human
inhabitants. The Nature Con-
Enter to Win!
3 Day Guided Buck Hunt on
the Zumwalt Prairie, Fall 2015.
L.O.P. TAG DONATED BY THE
NATURE CONSERVANCY
Drawing to be held April 24th, 2015
Limited to 500 tickets
1 for $20.00 • 3 for $50
Tickets available at Les Schwab and Thompson Auto Supply
Or Contact:
Chad Stangel, 541-263-1770 or Sam Magera, 541-263-1436
Checks can be mailed to
Enterprise Elks Lodge, PO Box K
Enterprise, OR 97828
519 W. North Street, Enterprise
541.426.3413
Mon-Thurs 9 to Noon/1-5pm; Fri. 9-1
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being able to contribute to the
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these ecological systems and
how human behavior impacts
those systems,” Jones said.
Like the ODFW, the Con-
servancy recognizes that
while the elk offer some
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also do some damage. The
Conservancy gives away a
number of LOP tags not only
to raise revenue, but to help
control the elk population and
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Conservancy is also working
to reduce elk damage to as-
pen and woody shrubs, which
supply cover to a number of
animal species in the area.
After the two men spoke
and answered audience ques-
tions, Kathleen Ackley, Wal-
lowa Land Trust executive
director, Jones and Hansen
gathered around the tumbler
of tickets while Hansen drew
the name of Jeff Losli of
North Plains for the LOP tag.
Losli did not attend the event.
Hansen said he appreciat-
ed the excellent turnout and
found the audience questions
thoughtful.
Jones said he enjoyed
speaking at the event, and
when asked what he’d like
people to know about the
Conservancy, replied, “We
see ourselves as members
of this community. We have
assets that can help people
make a productive living on
the Zumwalt while main-
taining the native plants and
animals. We can also create
opportunities for those who
don’t live and work on the
Zumwalt to go out and enjoy
that incredible place.”
Ackley said the elk tag
raised $10,000 for WLT, and
added the money is not ear-
marked for a particular proj-
ect. “We’ll use it to meet our
mission, which is conserving
special places in Wallowa
County.”
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