A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
March 19, 1972
Coming off their worst track season in seven years,
the Pine-Eagle thinclads will be relying on a freshman
dominated lineup to regain lost prestige this year and to
possibly begin a Spartan dynasty.
“Last year was the fi rst time (in Sanders’ seven years at
Pine-Eagle) that we didn’t score at the state meet,” coach
Bud Sanders said.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 19, 1997
The Baker School Board Tuesday night agreed to
allocate up to $12,000 to hire a student resource offi cer
for the remainder of the school year.
The offi cer, who would come from the ranks of the
Baker City Police Department or the Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce, would serve a half day each day at Baker Middle
School and the other half at Baker High School.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 19, 2012
Baker County offi cials will meet soon to discuss
whether to appeal the Travel Management Plan the
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest released to the public
last week.
Concern has already surfaced because of the location
of some of the approximately 3,800 miles of forest roads
that are slated to be closed to motorized vehicles in June.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 20, 2021
After 18 months of planning, paperwork, and
fundraising, the emerging Baker Relief Nursery is now
open to help local families.
The start of relief nurseries dates to 1976 when
women of the Junior League of Eugene created a childcare
center “in response to a growing crisis of child abuse and
neglect,” according to the Oregon Association of Relief
Nurseries (OARN).
The model, which is now replicated by relief nurseries
across Oregon, was to provide respite care and support to
families.
The Baker location was spurred when Kim Mosier
did some research on “childcare deserts,” which refers
to areas where the available childcare spots are fewer
than the number of children who need care. Baker City is
considered a childcare desert under that defi nition.
She also found data showing Baker County having high
rates of child abuse and neglect, as well as higher rates of
foster care than most other Oregon counties.
“That lead me to research what’s proven to work to
keep kids out of foster care. Relief nurseries are the only
thing I found,” she said.
She also learned that of the 35 relief nurseries in
Oregon, only two are east of the Cascade Mountains.
The relief nursery model is for ages 0 to 5. It is a three-
pronged approach that includes a classroom, home visits,
and parent education.
“To support struggling families and give parents the
tools to support their kids,” Mosier said.
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Noxious weed of the week
BY JEFFREY PETTINGILL
The enemy
Common mullein (Verbascum thap-
sus L.)
This biennial plant grows in disturbed
areas with compact soils. This plant’s
leaves are very pubescent (hairy) on long
narrow leaves. The weed sends up a long
cylindrical yellow-flowered seed head. The
plant can grow up to 8 feet tall but is typi-
cally only 4 to 5 feet. Since it is a biennial,
the first year rosettes are typically a silver
green color that spreads out to about 2 feet
in diameter. This plant is very rigid and
can be seen sticking up through the snow
and above the normal plants in the spring
of the following year (almost resemble a
cattail at this stage).
The attack
Because this plant likes open soils
found in disturbed areas it can be found
anywhere, even in hoof marks made by
animals. The plant is troublesome in that
it gets fairly thick, is undesirable as a food
to animals, and competes for moisture
and nutrients with desirable species. It is
Wolves
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Six wolves — three from
each pack — are fitted with
GPS tracking collars, but Rat-
liff said that in the past week
or so two of those collars,
one from each pack, ceased
working.
The collars don’t allow any-
thing approaching real-time
information about the wolves’
location, Ratliff said.
(He said that uploading data
from the collars to satellites
uses a considerable amount of
the collar’s battery power, so
if they reported the location
frequently the collars wouldn’t
last long.)
The collars typically report
their location once a day al-
though some collars can report
more often — the time varies
to give a wider range of data —
which is usually enough to al-
low Ratliff to spot trends and,
when necessary, to alert ranch-
ers that wolves have been fre-
quenting a specific area.
That’s been the case recently
in the north end of the Eagle
Valley, north of Richland, Rat-
liff said.
Ranchers have frequently
been hazing wolves in that
area. Ratliff said he has hazed
wolves there as well.
So far there have been no re-
ports of wolves attacking live-
stock in that area, he said on
Thursday, March 17.
The fatal attack on the work-
ing dog, a 40-pound heeler,
happened across the Halfway
Grade in the south end of Pine
Valley, near Pine Town Lane.
The dog’s owner found the
animal by its kennel the morn-
ing of Tuesday, March 15, Rat-
liff said.
The dog died later, after be-
ing treated by a veterinarian,
and Ratliff said the owner, af-
ter burying the animal, called
ODFW.
Ratliff said the dog was
disinterred and, after he and
another biologist examined
its wounds on Wednesday,
March 16, they confirmed that
it had been attacked by a wolf
or wolves.
He said it’s not certain where
the attack happened, but he
doesn’t think the dog, given
the severity of its injuries,
could have traveled very far af-
ter the attack.
especially effective at growing through
cracks of rocks and disturbed mining and
logging soils.
The defense
Mechanical control is very effective with
this weed as with most biennial plants. Just
ensure that you remove a few inches of the
root below the soil surface. Disking and
plowing are not very useful as this plant
generally shows up on south-facing steep
slopes. Although there has not been much
biological insect research performed on
this plant there a few native insects that
can be found in the flowers eating their
way through the seeds. Herbicides such
as Escort XP, Telar XP, and Opensight are
very effective on the plant, but the secret
is to add a quality surfactant to help get
the herbicide past all those soft fuzzy hairs
and into the plant’s cuticle where they can
do some good. Proper identification is key
so consult with your weed professional to
manage this weed.
Jeffrey Pettingill, supervisor of the Baker
Rich Olds/Contributed Photo
County Weed District, can be reached at Common mullein, which can grow as tall as 8
541-523-0618 or 541-519-0204. feet, produces yellow flowers.
According to the ODFW
depredation report, the dog
had “premortem bite punc-
tures to the head and throat
with associated muscle tis-
sue trauma. Bruising of the
hide and muscle trauma were
found on the back, hips, and
groin. The location and size
of the tooth marks are consis-
tent with wolf attack injuries
on dogs.”
According to the report,
GPS collar data from a year-
ling male wolf from the Cor-
nucopia pack placed that wolf
a half-mile from the ranch
where the dog lived, at 2 a.m.
and 5 a.m. on March 15.
(Ratliff said those locations
weren’t uploaded to the satel-
lite, from which they’re avail-
able to ODFW, until several
hours later.)
Ratliff said the rancher told
him that another of his dogs
died on Christmas Day after
showing up with severe in-
juries. Although ODFW bi-
ologists didn’t examine that
dog, Ratliff said he looked at
GPS collar data from that day
and a wolf was near the ranch
then, and it’s possible a wolf or
wolves also attacked that dog.
Ratliff said he’s concerned
about a pit, which is one mile
from the ranch, where cattle
carcasses are dumped.
He said wolves have
roamed near that pit occa-
sionally over the past several
years, and he worries that it
will continue to lure the pred-
ators.
Ratliff said ranchers who
use that pit have partially bur-
ied and in some cases burned
carcasses, but the site contin-
ues to remain a potential at-
tractant for wolves.
Burying carcasses is the
best way to avoid that prob-
lem, he said.
“I know it’s a lot more work
for producers,” Ratliff said. “I
don’t have a perfect solution.
Sometimes even when car-
casses are buried there’s still
scent there. But burying car-
casses is the best option.”
Wolves from two packs
mingling
Ratliff said wolves from
the Keating and Cornucopia
packs have been mingling,
and at times traveling together
recently.
That’s uncommon, he said.
Wolves from the Keating
News of Record
DEATHS
Bruce Hahn: 65, of Baker City,
died March 15, 2022, at Saint
Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker
City. Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be shared at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
Wayne Stevens: 90, of Baker City, died
March 17, 2022, surrounded by his
family. Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be shared at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
FUNERAL PENDING
Agnes Bird: A celebration of Agnes’
life and graveside service will take
place Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. at
Pine Haven Cemetery in Halfway. A
reception will follow immediately at the
Halfway Lions Hall. Those who would
like to make a donation in memory of
Agnes can do so to the Hells Canyon
Junior Rodeo through Tami’s Pine Valley
Funeral Home & Cremation Services,
P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online
condolences can be made at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
THIRD-DEGREE THEFT: George Joseph
Zinie, 34, Vale, 6:10 p.m. Wednesday,
March 16, in the 2400 block of 10th
Street; cited and released.
PAROLE VIOLATION: Alen Alexander
Adams, 26, Baker City, 3:56 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16 in the 1300 block
of Ninth Street; jailed.
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County
Justice Court warrant): Laura Feign
Osterkamp, 58, Baker City, 3:01 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16, at the police
department; cited and released.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
FIRST-DEGREE THEFT, FIRST-DEGREE
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, UNAUTHORIZED
USE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE: Ty Robert
Lewis, 18, Baker City, 10:47 p.m.
Wednesday, March 16, on N. Cedar
Street; jailed.
pack, which numbers at least
10 animals, including five
pups born in the spring of
2021, had spent much of the
winter around the north side
of Keating Valley.
But recently at least five
Keating wolves had moved
east into the Low Hills country
southeast of Halfway. That’s
an area where wolves from the
former Pine Creek pack at-
tacked cattle repeatedly during
the spring of 2018, killing four
and injuring at least seven.
Wolves from the Cornu-
copia pack, meanwhile, have
moved west and have been
lingering in the north part of
Eagle Valley.
The Cornucopia pack con-
sists of at least five wolves,
but the pack has no breed-
ing male, and Ratliff said it’s
possible the pack’s breeding
female won’t have a litter of
pups this spring.
On Friday morning,
March 18, wolves from the Cor-
nucopia pack had moved back
across the Halfway grade and
were in the northern part of Pine
Valley, Ratliff said. He alerted
ranchers in that area about the
wolves’ latest movements.
The pack’s breeding male
was illegally shot and killed in
late September 2020 near Ea-
gle Forks campground. A sec-
ond wolf, a subadult female,
was shot and killed in late Oc-
tober 2020 northeast of Half-
way. It’s not clear whether that
wolf was a member of a pack.
More recently, a 2-year-old
male wolf from the Cornuco-
pia pack was hit by a car and
killed along Highway 86, about
5 miles west of Richland, in
April 2021.
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