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Harl Butte pack strikes again
It is the 11th kill
since July 2016
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife con-
fi rmed another Harl Butte
Pack depredation in the Marr
Flat area on public land Oct.
13. An ODFW employee
found the carcass of an esti-
mated 550-pound calf on
the morning of Oct. 11 in a
large pasture. A depredation
was suspected, and an exam-
ination was performed that
morning.
The ODFW estimated
that the calf had died ear-
lier that morning. The car-
cass was half-eaten with both
hindquarters missing as well
as the entrails and nearly all
of the right front shoulder
fl esh.
The examination indi-
cated premortem bites in
several carcass areas with
accompanying severe hem-
orrhaging and tissue trauma.
Bite marks up to eight inches
long, six inches wide into the
tissue and the associated tis-
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sue trauma behind the ribs,
between the shoulders and
under the jaw were similar to
observed wolf attack points.
The radio collar of OR-50,
a member of the Harl Butte
Pack, indicated the wolf was
in the area earlier that morn-
ing. The 10 previous depre-
dations in the area occurred
within nine miles of the site.
In response to the dep-
redation, local rancher and
Oregon Cattleman’s Asso-
ciation member Todd Nash
emailed ODFW East Region
Manager Bruce Eddy with
another request to lethally
remove the entire pack and
extend the period of the
authorized legal take of four
of the wolves past Oct. 31.
Nash also noted that the
wolves can only be taken on
1,500 acres of private prop-
erty, and the areas in which
the ODFW and Marr Flatt
Grazing Association can take
wolves is also limited by the
agency.
Eddy said he appreci-
ated the nonlethal efforts
of the ranchers to deal with
the problem but also said
the agency had no plans to
remove the entire pack.
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the district plan to the public.
Numerous meetings, possible
direct mailings and other plans
are being considered.
“I’m not asking you to sup-
port the library district, I’m not
asking you to oppose it, I’m
just asking you to uphold the
basic tenet of democracy and
allow your citizens to have the
right to vote,” said Wilburn.
“Approval of the resolution
to be in the boundaries of the
proposed district will allow the
process to go forward and give
us six months to educate peo-
ple, to allow them to hear the
pros and cons, to allow for
public meetings and public
discussions.”
Enterprise had sent out
nearly 1,200 surveys in its
recent water bills asking for
public input on the library dis-
BASE
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“Regardless of whether
the special district passes,
the libraries will need assis-
tance for extra needs over
the course of time,” Byrd
said.
The
committee
has
met numerous times to
“brainstorm” ideas. Any-
one willing to help is
welcome.
“We encourage people
to buy locally when possi-
ble, but for those who pur-
chase items on Amazon, we
are requesting that they use
Amazon Smile and select
Wallowa Valley Library
Foundation as their char-
County receives additional
wolf management money
Wallowa County has
received $29,195 from the
Oregon Department of Agri-
culture to be used for imple-
menting livestock manage-
ment techniques or nonlethal
wolf deterrent techniques
designed to discourage inter-
actions between wolves and
livestock.
Half of the funding comes
from two federal prevention
grants with the state pro-
viding the other 50 percent
through the Supplemental
Prevention Grant process.
Umatilla, Jackson, and
Morrow also received funds
under the program. Wal-
lowa, Umatilla, and Jackson
have a recent history of wolf
depredation.
The supplemental funds
are in addition to $184,039
awarded in May to 10 coun-
ties, including the four
receiving the new funds,
through the state’s Wolf Dep-
redation Compensation and
Financial Assistance County
Block Grant Program. Most
of the state funds –– 70 per-
cent –– are directed towards
nonlethal efforts to reduce
confl icts between wolves and
livestock.
Among those are barriers,
human presence, livestock
protection dogs and other
guarding animals, alarm
or scare devices, hazing or
harassment and experimental
practices such as bio-fencing
and belling cattle.
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fundraiser,” said theatre owner
Darrell Brann.
The list of upgrades
includes such things as
main fl oor bathrooms, struc-
tural improvements and a
new heating and ventilation
system.
October 25, 2017
trict. Respondents weighed in
77 for and 130 against moving
forward, but council mem-
ber Micah Agnew argued that
given that the council had
not even received the feasi-
bility study when the survey
was distributed, and given
what the council was learn-
ing Wednesday night, it was
probable that the respond-
ers to the survey did not fully
understand the consequences
of losing the county library.
“What really is our goal?”
Agnew asked. “We are being
asked to be included in the
zoning. I’m concerned that
our intention wasn’t met (with
the survey) because the pub-
lic doesn’t have the informa-
tion we have. Our intention
met with fl aw. I wouldn’t be
comfortable making a decision
based on our survey results
... the bullet points as I read
it were ... ‘pay more taxes or
not.’”
Council member Larry
Christman agreed that lack
of information was a serious
problem.
“I think that is one of the
problems now ... that the peo-
ple have not been educated as
to the pros and cons of this
program,” he said
Council member Ashley
Sullivan agreed that the infor-
mation thus far provided to the
public was simply not enough.
“If we could have just had
the entire citizenship of Enter-
prise in this room tonight, I
think we would have a differ-
ent answer on these surveys,”
she said.
City Administrator Michele
Young also said questions she
received from the public indi-
cated that they had no idea
how interwoven the city and
county libraries were.
Council members and the
public did not seem to under-
stand that without the county
ity,” Byrd said. “Amazon
will donate a percentage of
every purchase amount to
our foundation; it does not
cost the buyer any extra. We
call this a ‘painless’ way to
donate.”
Byrd said the impor-
tance of libraries cannot be
overestimated.
“Whether you use the
libraries personally or not,
every single life in Wal-
lowa County is impacted and
enhanced by them in ways
you may not be aware of,”
she said. “Libraries are not
just about books; they are
about literacy, community,
communication,
outreach
and service.”
She said county residents
have become complacent
about literacy because Wal-
lowa County has such a high
literacy rate.
“The amount of work
done by the libraries has a
direct relationship to these
literacy rates,” she said.
“They are doing a tremen-
dous service to the over-
all community. The librar-
ians are also amazing.
They are not just doing a
job. They are invested in
the communities and work
many extra hours to make a
difference.
“If you want to help the
library foundation, there is
much that can be done now,”
Byrd added. “Please do not
think that you are not wanted
or needed.
Info: 541-437-8001..
Brann plans to close the
theater in December to begin
work on electrical wiring,
heating and ventilation sys-
tem, sealing air leaks in the
“envelope” of the building
and structural improvements
to the stage.
After the theater reopens,
work will continue through
June to build ADA accessible
bathrooms on the theater’s
main fl oor.
Brann and his family have
operated the theater primar-
ily as a music venue for the
last four years but have also
hosted many free movie
nights and fundraisers for
nonprofi ts.
The Lostine Tavern event
runs 6-9 p.m. Tickets are
$35 and can be purchased at
eventbrite.com.
library, even Enterprise City
Library services would be dra-
matically curtailed.
Without the fi nancing of a
district, library hours would
most likely not be expanded
in Enterprise. As it stands
now, the Enterprise library is
closed Fridays and through the
weekend.
In the fi nal vote, coun-
cil members Chris Pritchard,
Dave Elliott and Mayor Sta-
cey Karvoski voted “no” and
Micah Agnew, Larry Christ-
man, Jenni Word and Ashley
Sullivan voted “yes.”
Included with his vote,
Christman lectured the library
foundation
representatives,
telling them to address an issue
that he found astonishing and
offensive: the proposal that the
city library be turned over to
the district while the city con-
tinued to pay for maintenance
and wages.
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