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A10 News wallowa.com MORAINE Continued from Page A1 Wallowa Land Trust Exec- utive Director Kathleen Ack- ley said her organization, as well as the Wallowa Lake Mo- raines Partnership, wants to GRANTS Continued from Page A1 It’s not just a love of tra- dition that drives Ethan’s en- thusiasm for trapping. Walking along Wallowa River where a family friend has enlisted him to trap for muskrats, he empha- sizes the practical applications of trapping in agriculture. “These muskrats are dig- ging up into the banks and eroding the banks away,” he February 24, 2016 Wallowa County Chieftain see the East Moraine remain a sustainable, undeveloped working landscape that offers FXOWXUDO VLJQL¿FDQFH SXEOLF access, livestock grazing and wildlife habitat as well as tim- ber related resources. Ackley said she had heard in early February that the grant application had made the list, but refused to believe it until she saw it in writing with her own eyes with help from The Trust for Public Land. “Of course, Congress still has to pass the budget — this is just the president’s rec- ommendations. But being as we’re number three, chances are pretty good we’ll get the money.” Ackley said she was im- pressed by the high ranking, as the $3 million grant from the previous year ranked 10th nationally. “Obviously our project competed well this year, since it got an even higher ranking than previously,” she said. Ackley said that the next step in the process will be do- ing more joint appraisal work on the property with the land- owner, an independent apprais- er, the Oregon Department of Forestry and the USFS. “In order to get feder- al government dollars ... we have to go through a very VSHFL¿F DSSUDLVDO SURFHVV and you have to do it with the funding agency. The idea is that this process is safeguard- ing the public trust.” said. “Same thing with the bea- vers — they build dams and ÀRRGRXWWKHFURSODQG´ Ethan started his business a year ago, trapping bobcats and skunk with his father. When he became interested in trapping mink, an activity for which his dad had little experience but plenty of traps, Ethan taught himself through books and YouTube videos. “I just basically watched some videos about it and went and set a trap that night, and the next day I came back and there was a giant mink in it. ... My dad showed me how to skin the mink. Ever since then I’ve skinned all the mink and muskrats and coyotes and ev- erything.” Though his clients have been mostly family and friends so far, he plans to expand and advertise his services online. Ethan intends to make it more than a hobby. Although he makes little from the furs — just $25 for a mink and $5 for a muskrat — he is serious about making his business pay. “I’d still have a job but this would be like a second job, almost,” he said. “I’d have to have a whole lot of traps out in a place where there’s an abun- dance of fur to catch enough to really make any money.” As for whether he plans to keep his business local, Ethan thinks it’s possible. “I think it could happen around here, I’d have to be trapping a lot of dif- ferent things. I’d have to have a line out for everything.” Ethan has hung out his shin- gle as a licensed trapper already: “Young Licensed Trapper avail- able to remove certain nuisance animals. If you are dealing with destructive muskrat, mink, bea- ver ... please contact Ethan by calling 541-426-4713. Enter- prise and Joseph Areas. “ was in 8th grade, she won her ¿UVW KHLIHU WKURXJK WKH 6WRFN- grower’s Heifer Award. With the assistance of her FFA teach- HU6WHSKDQLH6FKR¿HOGVKHSXU- chased Herefords from David and Linda Bird of Halfway. “They’re all really gentle,” she said. “(Bird’s) had some Herefords that were really tame and they were people who real- ly cared about their animals. It VHHPHGOLNHDJRRG¿W´ By saving back her heifers every year, and getting lucky with having heifer calves ev- ery year, she now has six cows she shows, sells and manages. She’s been doing this without a squeeze chute — an essen- tial piece of cattle-handling equipment for a cattle breeder ZKRXVHVDUWL¿FLDOLQVHPLQDWLRQ every year in addition to inocu- lating and otherwise doctoring or maintaining the health of her little herd. Dave and Jeff Parker have been assisting with the AI pro- cess, using a squeeze-chute sys- tem familiar to many beginning ranchers: the gate folded back against the fence with the cow wedged between the two panels. Her grant money will help her purchase a real squeeze chute, making husbandry proj- ects more comfortable and saf- er for both cow and handler. Whitney will be college bound in a few years and she’s ORRNLQJDWWKHPHGLFDO¿HOGEXW the “new” family tradition will probably continue, she said. “My brother wants to keep it going.” And she’ll be taking a lot of management skills with her, no matter what career path she chooses. Whitney’s application was stellar, according to Enterprise High School supervisor and ag WHDFKHU6WHSKDQLH6FKR¿HOG “What’s unique about Whit- ney is her family is not involved in the cattle industry — it’s 100 percent her passion, idea and PDQDJHPHQW´ 6FKR¿HOG VDLG “Whitney has built her own project from the ground up. I think that made her unique from a lot of other applicants. (Also) Whitney is a very good writer; she’s very detail orient- ed and takes a lot of time to get that application right. So, I’m sure her application was very good reading, too.” 6FKR¿HOG KHOSHG VHYHQ Enterprise High School and FFA members to apply for the scholarship. Not all had the natural storytelling skill and eye for detail of Whitney, but all were able to turn in com- SHOOLQJZRUN6FKR¿HOGVDLG “A lot of times when you can write an essay about something you’re passion- ate about, you’re motivated to really work on something, like writing, that might not be your best skill.” Whitney Evans Whitney Evans, daughter of Petra and Tyler Evans of Enter- prise, is following a Wallowa County tradition, but it’s not a family tradition. The fami- ly farm on Russell Lane was set up for horses, but Whitney found out early on that she pre- ferred being around cows. “I really always liked ag- riculture, and I grew up in Portland and there wasn’t a lot of that there. When we came out here (in 2012) I met a few people with cows and I helped them with theirs and I loved it.” The very next year, while she k e e W e th Eyreus Rooney has earned a 3.83 GPA f o t n e while at EHS. She has completed AP Stud Language and Composition and has Eyreus Rooney Enterprise High School just completed BMCC Writing 121. She is currently enrolled in College Writing 122. She has excelled in the sciences taking Animal Science, Physics, Chemistry and Advanced Biology. She is currently enrolled in Pre-Calculus. Thanks for your hard work Eyreus and for making EHS a better place. New epic fantasy The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu now in paperback The Student of the Week is chosen for academic achievement and community involvement. Students are selected by the administrators of their respective schools. STK #32915. WAS $24,130. NOW $21,558 AFTER $1,572 ROGERS DISCOUNT AND $1,000 SUBVENTION CASH FROM TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. LEV: $14,478. $999 DOWN=$200 MO PLUS TTD. 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