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A6 NEWS Wallowa County Chieftain Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Lucky hunters will have longer to get their goat By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald. com The relative handful of hunters fortunate enough to draw a tag for a moun- tain goat will have more time to track down one of the cliff-dwelling animals in 2020. The Oregon Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has lengthened the season for several mountain goat hunts in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains, and in Hells Canyon, for this year’s seasons. ODFW also created two new goat hunts in the Wal- lowas, each offering a sin- gle tag. • Southern Wallowas — all of the Catherine Creek, Keating and Pine Creek units, and the southern part of the Minam unit. The hunt will run from Aug. 1 through Oct. 31. • Copper Creek — parts of the Minam unit in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. The hunt will run from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. Both of the new hunts are much longer than has been typical for mountain goat hunts in Northeastern Ore- gon. Most of the existing hunts will run for one to two months in 2020. In 2019 the majority of those hunts ran for eight to 15 days. A goat tag is the rarest of big-game hunting oppor- tunities in Oregon. And as with bighorn sheep tags, hunters can draw only one in a lifetime (bighorn hunts have also been extended to about one month for 2020). ODFW offi cials decided to lengthen the goat seasons in part because the previous seasons were so short that unavoidable factors such as wildfi res or early snow- storms could disrupt goat hunters’ chances, said Nick Myatt, the ODFW offi cial who lives in Baker City and has been leading the agen- cy’s multi-year effort to streamline and, where possi- ble, to simplify hunting reg- ulations statewide. “These are once-in-a-life- time hunts, and we wanted to make sure our season structure really refl ected that,” Myatt said. “We felt that giving people the max- imum fl exibility is the right thing to do.” Heavy snow is a partic- ular issue, Myatt said, since mountain goats spend most of their time at the highest elevations where blizzards aren’t uncommon during September and October. The addition of the South- ern Wallowas and Copper Creek hunts brings the total goat tags for 2020 to 27, all in Northeastern Oregon. Two of those tags — one in the Elkhorns and on at Hat Point — are for hunters who don’t live in Oregon. In 2019, about 12,500 people applied for one of the 25 mountain goat tags available. Oregon’s biggest moun- tain goat herds live in the Elkhorns and the Wallowas. There are smaller herds in the Strawberry Mountains south of Prairie City, in parts of Hells Canyon, and in the Wenaha River area north of Elgin. ODFW trapped goats in Alex Pajunas/Baker City Herald fi le photo/Baker City Herald Rocky Mountain goats in the Elkhorn Mountains. the Elkhorns and moved the animals to each of those areas over the past two decades to either create herds or supplement exist- ing populations. Following are changes in the lengths of mountain goat hunts, along with the num- ber of tags, and the number of applicants for each hunt in 2019. Elkhorn Mountains • No. 1 has 3 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Aug. 1-31. The 2019 season was Sept. 7-15. Applications totaled 2,600. • No. 2 has 2 tags (one nonresident) — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1-30. The 2019 season was Sept. 16-24. Applications totaled 774. • No. 3 has 3 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Oct. 1-31. The 2019 season was Oct. 12-20. Applications totaled 1,488. Wallowa Mountains • E. Hurricane Creek has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31. The 2019 hunt was Sept. 7-22. Applications totaled 484. • W. Hurricane Creek has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31. The 2019 hunt was Sept. 7-22. Applications totaled 316. • Goat Mtn. No. 1 has 2 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1-30. The 2019 hunt was Sept. 7-22. Appli- cations totaled 760. • Goat Mt. No. 2 has 2 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Oct. 1-31. The 2019 hunt was Oct. 12-22. Appli- cations totaled 321. • Cusick Mtn. has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1-Oct. 31. The 2019 hunt was from Sept. 7-22. Applications totaled 529. Hells Canyon • Hat Point No. 1 has 2 tags (one nonresident) — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1-30. The 2019 hunt was from Sept. 7-22. Appli- cations totaled 655. • Hat Point No. 2 has 3 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Oct. 1-31. The 2019 hunt was from Oct. 12-22. Applications totaled 683. • S. Snake River No. 1 has 2 tags — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1-30. The 2019 hunt was from Sept. 7-22. Applications totaled 939. • S. Snake River No. 2 has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Oct. 1-31. The 2019 hunt ran from Oct. 12-22. Applications totaled 378. Other areas • N. Wenaha has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. The 2019 hunt was from Sept. 7-22. Applications totaled 601. • Strawberry Mountains has 1 tag — 2020 hunt will run from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31, the same period as for 2019. Applications totaled 1,936. T HE B OOKLOFT AND Skylight Gallery Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E. 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Garfield Enterprise Mass Schedule 409 West Main -Enterprise Sundays: St. Pius X, Wallowa - 8:00 am St. Katherine of Siena, Enterprise 10:30am Saturdays: St Katherine of Siena, Enterprise 5:30pm Weekday: St. Katherine of Siena, Enterprise – 8:00am (Monday – Thursday and First Friday) SUNDAY WORSHIP at 9am February 2, 2020 Douglas Vaughan • Guest Pastor All are welcome phone (message): 541-426-4633 web: gracelutheranenterprise.com Joseph United Methodist Church St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church 3rd & Lake St. • Joseph Pastor Cherie Dearth Phone: 541-432-3102 Sunday Worship Service 10:00 am 100 NE 3rd St, Enterprise NE 3rd & Main St 541-426-3439 Worship Service Sunday 9:30am JosephUMC.org Enterprise Christian Church 85035 Joseph Hwy • (541) 426-3449 Worship at 9 a.m. Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship at 6 p.m. (nursery at A.M. services) CLUES ACROSS 1. You may drive one in a garage 6. Angry 9. Picked hairstyle 13. Anti-inflammatory brand 14. Fishing rod 15. 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Thin pasta 10. Young horse 11. Cinnamon ___ 12. Tip jar fillers 14. Previous 17. Like most music 22. Real estate database: Abbr. 24. A drummer keeps it 25. Marks for life 26. Clairvoyant’s set of cards 27. ___ donna 29. Joints with caps 30. “It’s ___ cause!” 31. Mill product? 32. Nail file material 34. Visibly upset 38. Gas in an OPEN sign 39. Genre of “Rush Hour” 41. Stomp on 42. Longtime labor leader Chavez 44. Stage prompt 45. Great, or what can precede the starred answers’ beginnings 49. Bat’s navigational signal 50. Like the fabled tortoise 51. “Tall” story 52. Did the crawl, say 53. Temporary beds 54. Worry 55. Bookie’s concern 58. It’s crude at first 59. 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Platypuses were once considered widespread across the eastern Austra- lian mainland and Tasmania, although not a lot is known about their distribution or abundance because of the species’ secretive and noc- turnal nature. A new study examined the potentially devastat- ing combination of threats to platypus populations, including water resource development, land clearing, climate change and increas- ingly severe periods of drought. Valentine’s Gifts Galore! The Big Brown Church with an open door Sundays 11:00 am Pastor Archie Hook Bible Studies: Thurs, 6:30 pm Sundays 9:30 am Children’s program during Sunday worship 301 NE First St. • Enterprise, OR Find us on Facebook! 541.426.3044 * Perfume and Lotion * * Sparkly Jewelry * * Cozy Blankets * * Inspirational or Naughty Leather Bags * Stop by today! 305 Wagner (near the Cemetery) P.O. Box N. 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