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WEEDS
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But it wasn’t neces-
sarily intentional.
“A lot of the ways
things like this get spread
is through equipment,”
Marcum said. “Who
knows where they were
working before, and that’s
why there’s been a big
push with a lot of these
big corporations and nox-
ious week managers across
the state who are working
with power companies and
ditch companies.”
Marcum said he can’t
be sure just how it arrived
in the county.
“It’s hard to say,”
he said. “It looks like
someone just threw a
bunch of seeds right there
in the ditch and that’s
where they started.”
Why a problem?
“It’s a Carduus thistle
and that family is one in
North America that is
invasive,” Marcum said.
“In every state across the
entire country, the Car-
duus family is an invasive
species.”
The Carduus family
includes welted thistle,
musk thistle and plumeless
thistle.
“Others (thistles) are
invasive, but they’re not
nearly as problematic as
the Carduus family,” he
said. “It’s the way they
grow and spread. They just
absolutely kill out every-
thing else around them,
like native grasses along
ditch banks. They can just
come in and create these
massive bare spots and
choke out everything else
around. They create a mat
so that nothing else will
grow there.”
He emphasized that the
thistles choke out crops,
alfalfa and grass hay and
are poor for erosion con-
trol and soil sustainability.
EO Media Group, File
A “private timber accord” was negotiated with help from Gov. Kate Brown’s offi ce. It is anticipated to
receive a “rubber stamp” from lawmakers in 2022.
SESSION
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The “private timber
accord” was negotiated
with help from Gov. Kate
Brown’s offi ce. It is antici-
pated to receive a “rubber
stamp” from lawmakers in
2022.
“This is a legislative
priority and has all the
ingredients to pass,” said
Cooper, adding that the
Oregon Farm Bureau is
still studying the proposal.
“I have a hard time seeing
a situation where it doesn’t
go forward.”
Certain aspects of the
accord, such as increased
regulations for beaver
removal in forests, have
made the Farm Bureau ner-
vous about the implications
for agriculture. “It could
be a reason to adapt that
policy to other lands,” said
Lauren Smith, the group’s
director of government
aff airs.
The Farm Bureau also
plans to advocate for the
resumption of a program
under which private land-
owners pay an assessment
to raise money for predator
control by USDA’s Wildlife
Services. The program was
allowed to sunset during
the previous legislative ses-
sion after animal advocates
opposed extending it.
“There doesn’t seem to
be an avenue for our com-
munities to manage preda-
tors,” Smith said.
Climate legislation
There’s likely to be
action on climate legisla-
tion, if Democratic law-
makers try to enshrine an
emissions reduction plan
from the state’s Depart-
ment of Environmental
Quality in law, said Stone,
of the Oregon Association
of Nurseries.
“I expect there will
be a bill to codify what-
ever the Climate Protec-
tion Plan rules say,” he
said. “I’d be surprised if
the majority did not try to
push something through
legislatively.”
Other issues
Farm groups will prob-
ably lay the groundwork
for future legislative pro-
posals by initiating discus-
sions about real estate tax
reform and water storage.
County tax assessors some-
times diff er in what they
consider taxable real prop-
erty, such as stationary
equipment for greenhouses
and seed cleaning, Stone
said. The goal would be to
make those rules uniform.
As for water supplies, a
grant program created sev-
eral years ago is largely
focused on effi ciency and
hasn’t been used to develop
water storage facilities, as
intended, he said. “That
needs to be taken down to
the studs and rebuilt.”
In light of the politi-
cally charged atmosphere
and the governor’s race, it’s
likely that agriculture will
have to fend off “just plain
stupid” proposals intended
to score points with certain
voters, Stone said.
“I would hope it would
be boring, but I fear it may
not be,” he said of the ses-
sion. “I just don’t want
anything truly harmful to
get any oxygen during a
short session.”
Mark Porter, Oregon Department of Agriculture/Contributed Photo
Welted thistle has a pink blossom as seen this past summer along a wheelline below Alder Slope. A
limited stand of it has been discovered in Wallowa County and is targeted for eradication.
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