Wallowa County Chieftain
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wallowa.com
August 10, 2016
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HUNT
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Like many folks who ind
their way to butterly hunting,
Brown began as a birder. She
learned about the event from
her science teacher at Eck-
stein Middle School.
“She told me to ‘get the
scholarship, you’ll really
have a great time.’ And I’d
like to more about insects,”
Brown said.
Her dad, Chris Brown,
said they began noticing
butterlies the moment they
heard of the event and had al-
ready identiied a Western Ti-
ger Swallowtail beforehand.
Mallory Keenan’s mom
is a member of the club and
is currently inishing a book
for parents and children about
butterlies of Vashon Island.
Keenan and her parents have
raised Painted Lady and Anise
Swallowtail butterlies from
caterpillars and released them
into the wild. Last year they
raised butterlies from eggs
laid on a bull thistle.
“The coolest thing about
butterlies is releasing them,”
said Keenan, who attends
Chautauqua Elementary on
Vashon Island.
The two scholarship stu-
dents were the irst to accom-
pany the group and did so
thanks to the generosity of a
member who left the group
scholarship money in her will.
Club members hunt, exam-
ine and photograph butterlies
— they don’t collect them.
In fact, Al Wagner of Se-
attle tells the story of how he
originally got involved with
the club and foolishly brought
his butterly collection (he’d
made when he was 12) with
him to his irst meeting.
“The president of the club
threw it in the trash,” he re-
called with a laugh.
The group enjoyed several
programs in addition to their
hunting trips, including a talk
by Dr. David James, professor
of entomology at Washington
State University. Dr. James
has written several butterly
books and co-authored others
with David Nunally, who also
attended. James also works
with inmates serving life
sentences at the Walla Walla
State Penitentiary to breed,
tag and release monarch but-
terlies.
That program has been go-
ing for ive summers.
Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain
Dr. Michelle Janik with a patient at Enterprise Animal
Hospital.
Animal hospital
welcomes vet
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
In her irst week on the
job at Enterprise Animal
Hospital, Dr. Michelle Janik
was introduced in a big way
to the animal practice for
which she had been longing.
“We kind of had a run
on horses sticking their feet
through fences,” she said.
Fortunately, Dr. Janik has
excellent sewing skills to go
with her animal handling and
social skills. It was that com-
bination of skills that moved
clinic owner Dr. Jerald Rice
to hire Janik.
“After she left (following
an interview and several days
work), I asked myself if I had
been that prepared when I
graduated,” Rice said.
Janik earned her degree at
Oregon State University. She
completed her bachelor’s
degree in just three years
before tackling veterinarian
school, which she completed
in June.
Wallowa County and
Enterprise Animal Hospital
were immediately on her list
to check out because she had
heard that Enterprise Animal
Hospital “had a good thing
going,” she said.
She wanted that combi-
nation of small-animal sur-
gery and large-animal care.
Nowhere else appeared to
have the broad combination
of small and large animal
clients that Wallowa County
could offer. She appreciates
a challenge and is prepared
to deal with small animals re-
quiring exceptionally precise
surgery as well as large-an-
imal issues, such as repro-
ductive health and managing
illnesses within a herd.
“Herd health is a big in-
terest of mine,” Janik said.
“Managing populations to
minimize or handle herd out-
break is an area I’ve studied
seriously.”
“Her surgery skills are
very good,” Rice said. “She
also does a really good job of
working up cases and pursu-
ing diagnoses. When we add
her skills and understanding
of veterinary science with
her people and client skills
— it was a perfect match for
Enterprise Animal Hospital.”
Janik enjoys riding her
20-year-old Quarter Horse
AllDun as well as “every-
thing rural.” She was home-
schooled all the way through
high school in Sandy, Ore.,
where her parents still live.
Throughout her childhood
and early teens she was
deeply involved in 4-H.
“If there was a 4-H proj-
ect, I was probably involved
in it,” she said.
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Mallory Keenan, 10, of Vashon Island crouches with her mother Kelly to identify two mating
Police Car moths. Mallory correctly identified the moths’ genders. Although the group was
hunting butterflies, moths were equally interesting subjects.
“The men are remarkably
enthused about this,” James
said. “And the prison loves
it because it promotes prison
harmony.”
James said there are 89
species of butterlies in Wal-
lowa County and diversity re-
mains stable, although popu-
lations are “way down,” most
likely due to heavy spring
rains and hot summer condi-
tions.
Nunally scouted the loca-
tions in Wallowa County and
despite rain and cold con-
ditions on Sunday morning,
the group found plenty of
butterlies to photograph and
discuss.
“Mount Howard is memo-
rable to me because in 2010
pine white butterlies were
coming down on me like
snow,” James said. “It was a
mass eruption year and they
sometimes get carried aloft
by wind and then rain down
like that.”
Two local butterly fan-
ciers signed up to accompa-
ny the group Sunday as they
made their way up the back of
Mount Howard.
In particular, locals can
court fame my looking for
various sulfur butterlies,
James said.
“There are a lot of mys-
teries about sulfur butterlies
in Wallowa County,” James
said. “I’ve heard reports.
There may be large sulfurs
that have not been scientii-
cally identiied in the area.”
Wallowa County residents
interested in butterlies can
contact the Washington But-
terly association at http://
wabutterlyassoc.org.
The closest representative
of the Oregon Chapter of the
North American Butterly As-
sociation is Sue Anderson of
Sisters. Contact her at celas-
trinasue@gmail.com.
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