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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MONDAY
BASKETBALL
Women’s College, Battle 4 atlantis Championship. 9 a.m. ESPN2
Men’s College, northern iowa vs San Francisco. 9:30 a.m. CBSSN
Men’s College, Texas Tech vs Creighton. 11:30 a.m. ESPN2
Women’s College, Battle 4 atlantis Consolation. 11:30 a.m. ESPNU
Men’s College, Wichita State vs Grand Canyon. noon CBSSN
Men’s College, louisville vs arkansas. 2 p.m. ESPN2
Men’s College, alabama-Birmingham vs South Florida. 3 p.m. CBSSN
Men’s College, Georgia Tech vs utah. 3 p.m. FS1
Men’s College, Syracuse vs richmond. 4 p.m. ESPN2
Men’s College, omaha at iowa. 5 p.m. BIG10
nBa, Portland at Milwaukee. 5 p.m. ROOT, ROOT+
nBa, Golden State at new orleans. 5 p.m. NBATV
Men’s College, Georgia vs Saint Joseph’s. 5:30 p.m. CBSSN
Men’s College, Mississippi State vs Marquette. 5:30 p.m. FS1
Men’s College, ohio State vs San diego State. 6 p.m. ESPN2
Men’s College, St. John’s vs Temple. 6:30 p.m. ESPNU
Men’s College, Texas State at California. 7 p.m. PAC12
Men’s College, California Baptist vs Minnesota. 7:30 p.m. CBSSN
nBa, utah at la Clippers. 7:30 p.m. NBATV
Men’s College, Cincinnati vs arizona. 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
Men’s College, Southern illinois vs unlv. 10 p.m. CBSSN
FOOTBALL
nFl, San Francisco vs arizona. 5 p.m. ESPN
SOCCER
World Cup, england vs iran. 5 a.m. FS1
World Cup, Senegal vs netherlands. 8 a.m. FOX
World Cup, united States vs Wales. 11 a.m. FOX
World Cup, argentina vs Saudi arabia. 2 a.m. (Tue) FS1
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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.