SPRING FORWARD DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS Set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed Saturday night Daylight saving time starts on Sunday at 2 a.m. when clocks are turned to 3 a.m. Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour later than the day before, which means there will be more light in the evening. Enterprise, Oregon Wallowa.com Issue No. 47 March 7, 2018 $1 Perp nets world’s most expensive turkey, salmon Wallowa man sentenced on a variety of wildlife related offenses By Steve Tool Wallowa County Chieftain A Wallowa man who went on a poaching spree has received a Pendarvis lifetime revocation of his hunt- ing license and was sentenced to pay numerous other fines and fees after pleading guilty to wildlife offenses March 1 in Wallowa County Circuit Court. Attorney Brandon Foy rep- resented Michael Pendarvis, District Attorney Mona Wil- liams prosecuted the case and Judge Thomas Powers presided. The defendant’s girlfriend, Elizabeth Rose Johnston, and a friend, Robbie DeVore, were also allegedly marginally involved in some of the charges. Pendarvis, 21, Wallowa, pleaded guilty to nine counts of various angling, trespassing, firearms and hunting violations, including hunting cougars with dogs. As the DA read the charges and Judge Tom Powers received the guilty pleas of Pendarvis, Williams mentioned that the defendant’s cell phone as well as those of his cohorts had led to the current charges against the three. She added that when pursuing the charges, she took Pendarvis’ youth and his rel- ative cooperation with law enforcement into consideration. Williams said most of the charges were typical wildlife violations. However, one charge was particularly grievous, relat- ing to the trapping and taking of a raccoon. She recounted in a halting voice that she had con- sidered charging Pendarvis with animal abuse as well as the vio- lations after viewing one of a number of cell phone videos. After the defendant had trapped the raccoon in a cage, he set his hunting dogs upon the animal. The dogs, in a frenzy, tried to get at the raccoon as it See POACHER, Page A16 Enviro group sues over Spaulding’s catchfly Claims Forest Service isn’t doing enough to protect the plant By Paul Wahl Wallowa County Chieftain TOP DOG Wallowa County border collie flying high ABOVE: Three-year-old Rose, from the Jimmy Zollman/Mandi Post kennel in Wallowa, makes serious eye-contact with this steer on her way to winning third place at the “Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale” working stock dog trial and auction. Third place turned out to be the judges’ decision, but not the decision of the bidders, as Rose broke the sales record at the stock dog auction. Courtesy photo An environmental group’s latest dust-up with the U.S. Forest Service is over a plant. Greater Hells Canyon Council of La Grande has filed suit over what they say is the agency’s “failure to meet its duties to protect and recover threatened Spaulding’s catchfly in the Hells Canyon National Rec- reation area. The suit was filed in January and is mak- ing its way through the court system. The council maintains reauthorizing grazing in pastures where the plant is found without taking adequate protection measures is not helping matters. Wallowa County is the only spot in Ore- gon where the catchfly lives. It is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. See PLANT, Page A10 $30,000 ABC Rose sells for record-tying $30,000 at Red Bluff auction for ABC Rose, a record-breaking price in the stock dog auc- tion at the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale in California. By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain W ho’s a good girl? ABC Rose is. A very good girl. The three-year-old, red and white border col- lie bred and trained by partners Mandi Post and Jimmy Zollman of Wallowa just broke the sales record at the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale in Califor- nia, selling for a whopping $30,000 in the stock dog auction. Red Bluff is the “granddaddy of them all” event, having been in opera- tion as a premiere bull sale for 70 years. Making it into the sales book is a big deal, and entries compete against the top dogs in the nation. See DOG, Page A16 Chicken fanciers no dumb clucks regarding quality Packed house for Hawkins’ presentation By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain You’re always looking for the next superstar.” Courtesy photo Rose is flying high in a private plane owned by her new “people” on her way to another ranch and another job. — Mandi Post of Wallowa Veteran chicken raiser Gail Murphy of Lostine came to the March 2 chicken-raising workshop by Mary Hawkins to learn. “I’m hoping how to learn how to raise them right,” Murphy said. She was most interested in egg production. Hawkins is half of the Hawkins Sister Ranch of Wallowa, which has become the leading producer in the county. After overcoming the shock of the basic See CHICKENS, Page A10 Historic Hurricane Creek Grange floor going away Hickory or oak likely to replace red fir By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Maybe they don’t make ’em like they used to, but Hurricane Creek Grange is planning for a new floor that will last like the old one. The flooring in Hurricane Creek Grange 608 is nearly 100 years old. The quarter-sawn red fir floor has supported thousands of weddings, birthdays, meetings, dances, com- munity potlucks, bingos, bunco ses- sions and club do’s over the century. “If floors could talk, this one would be saying we have the best community in the world right here in Wallowa County, because it has so many functions there: slumber parties, birthdays, it just has happy memories for the whole commu- nity,” said grange member Barbara McCormack. But it’s time for a replacement. The old floor can’t be refinished one more time. Back in the ’90s, a flooring professional informed grange members that the tongue and groove portion of the boards had become so thin that the boards couldn’t withstand refinishing. “They screened and waxed it,” said grange member Derrell Witty. “I think that means scrubbed and waxed. That’s held up really well.” Astonishingly well. But nearly 30 years later, those thin edges have become long splinters. So, in advance of the 100-year celebration coming up in 2023, the grange has put aside $6,000 to match hoped-for grants. It will cost the grange between $18,000 and $25,000 to replace the floor with hardwood. The original idea was to us more red fir, but they were told there are no red fir trees See GRANGE, Page A10 Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Derrell Witty of Hurricane Creek Grange demon- strates the problem with the nearly 100-year-old hardwood flooring at Hurricane Creek Grange.