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A2 The BulleTin • Monday, noveMBer 21, 2022 Road Report Closures and traffic changes this week in Bend Road closures and traffic changes this week in Bend: • Portland Avenue be- tween NW First Street and NW Steidl Road for a water service installation, single lane closure with flagging, through Tuesday. • SW Bluff Drive between SW Bond Street and SW Wilson Avenue for infra- structure installation, full road closure with local ac- cess, through Tuesday. • Pettigrew Road be- tween Pinehaven Avenue and Woodhaven Avenue for stripping, lane closure with flagging, Tuesday. Ongoing closures: • Wilson Corridor Im- provements Project – Street improvements on Wilson Avenue from Second Street to 15th Street. For more in- formation visit the Wilson Project website. This is a multiphase project with var- ious intersections and road closures throughout its en- tirety. • Newport Corridor Im- provements Project – Vari- ous intersections along New- port Avenue to be closed due to removal and replace- ment of underground util- ities. Road closures related to the project listed below. For more information, visit Newport Corridor Improve- ments Project webpage. Var- ious closures through Spring 2023. • The Newport Avenue corridor is temporarily open to two-way traffic until early January 2023. Construction crews will still be performing shoulder work, so please use caution while navigating the corridor and be alert for lane shifts. • Brosterhous Road be- tween SE Orchard Grass Place and Windsor Drive for infrastructure installa- tions, full road closure with detour (Pedestrian and bike access), through late De- cember. • Deschutes Market Road between Yeoman Road and Monticello Drive for Front- age improvements for Solis at Petrosa, northbound lane closure with detour. • ODOT Third Street Im- provements – Infrastructure improvements along Third Street from Butler Market Road to Greenwood Ave- nue. Various types of traffic control will be implemented during construction. Ex- pected to be completed at the end of summer 2023. Street sections affected listed below. • Single-lane closures in the Northbound and South- bound lanes on Third Street Between Greenwood Avenue and NE Olney Avenue. • Butler Market to Mervin Sampels southbound slow lane closure • Intersection of Green- wood Avenue and Third Street, lane closures in place Sunday — Thursday nights, 7 p.m.-7 a.m. Expect Delays. Future road closures • NW Crossing Drive be- tween NW John Freemont Street and NW Mt. Wash- ington Drive for the NWX Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, full road closure with detour Dec. 1. • Stevens Road between SE 27th Street and Ward Road for sewer main in- stallation, full road closure with detour, Nov. 28-Dec. 23. 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Box 6020 Bend, or 97708 Look for Central Oregon events and add your own bendbulletin.com/events Jacob W. Frank/national Park Service via aP, file This Nov. 7, 2017 file photo, provided by the National Park Service, shows a gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Judge revives limits on wolf killing near Yellowstone park BY MATTHEW BROWN associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana judge has temporar- ily restricted wolf hunting and trapping near Yellowstone and Glacier national parks and imposed tighter statewide limits on killing the preda- tors, over concerns that looser hunting rules adopted last year in the Republican-con- trolled state could harm their population. State officials authorized the killing of 450 wolves during the winter of 2021-22, but ended up shutting down hunt- ing near Yellowstone National Park after 23 wolves from the park were killed, most of them in Montana. Conservation groups last month sued over 2021 laws passed by the Legislature that were intended to curb gray wolf numbers by making it easier to kill them. The laws allowed the use of snares, which some consider inhu- mane, and led to rules that al- low individuals to kill up to 20 wolves each — 10 from hunt- ing and 10 from trapping. Attorneys for WildEarth Guardians and Project Coyote argued that rules in place for this winter would hurt wolf populations and interfere with management of the animals on federal lands such as Yel- lowstone, where hunting is not allowed. State District Court Judge Christopher Abbott on Tues- day ordered Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to return to a limit of five wolves killed per person. He also blocked the use of snares when trapping season begins on Nov. 28, and re-imposed sharp limits on hunting and trapping near the national parks. The order is due to expire Nov. 29, but Abbott set a hear- ing on the matter for Nov. 28 in Lewis and Clark County. “This is a promising step in the right direction, and we will continue using all means necessary to end the senseless, politically motivated slaughter of Montana’s beloved wolves,” said Lizzy Pennock, of Wil- dEarth Guardians. Montana wildlife officials said the changes ordered by Abbott would take effect im- mediately. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Director Hank Worsech said in a statement that the state has “proven we can man- age wolves.” “We will comply with the judge’s order and look forward to the opportunity to defend good science and manage- ment strategies,” he said. Gov. Greg Gianforte crit- icized the ruling in a social media post, saying the judge “overstepped his bounds to align with extreme activists.” Gianforte trapped and killed a radio-collared wolf from Yellowstone last year on private land near the park. He was later given a warning for violating state hunting rules by killing the wolf without first taking a mandatory trapper education course. A total of 273 tivity can proceed wolves were re- without severe im- ported killed in pacts on wolf popu- Wolves killed in Montana last win- lations at least long Montana last winter, ter, out of popula- enough to afford from a population tion of about 1,100 the state an oppor- of about 1,100. The wolves. This year, tunity to be heard,” state authorized the state authorized killing up to 456 this Abbott wrote. Wolves were the killing of up to year. exterminated in 456, including six most of the U.S. by the 1930s north of Yellowstone park. under government-spon- Abbott’s order reduces that to sored poisoning and trap- two wolves outside the park. ping campaigns. They were As of Wednesday, hunters reintroduced from Canada had killed 56 wolves since the into the northern U.S. Rock- season opened in September. ies in the 1990s and have The judge said he wanted rebounded in areas of the to prevent an “acceleration” Great Lakes. of wolf kills as trapping sea- Wilderness areas in Idaho, son opens. But he rejected a Montana and Wyoming have request by the conservation groups to halt all wolf hunting become strongholds for wolf populations and wolves were and trapping. taken off the federal endan- “At least some hunting ac- 273 gered species list in the region in 2011. That’s helped fuel the species’ expansion in recent years into parts of Oregon, Washington state and Cali- fornia. Montana and Idaho loos- ened their their wolf hunting rules at the urging of hunt- ers and ranchers who wanted fewer wolves on the landscape. Advocates last year peti- tioned the U.S. Fish and Wild- life Service to restore endan- gered protections for wolves in the Western U.S. The Biden administration said in a pre- liminary finding last Septem- ber that protections for wolves may need to be restored be- cause new laws in Idaho and Montana posed a potential threat to wolves across the re- gion.
