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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday January 25, 1979 ELEVEN
make Oregon Fish and Wildlife Dept. headlines
Earlier this year the badger
was trapped in Oregon about
10 miles southeast of Harper
in Malheur County. It was
sporting a tag in one ear which
indicated it had previously
been captured across the state
line.
Communication with the
Idaho Cooperative Research
Unit which had earlier con
ducted a badger study in
dicated this animal had been
tagged in June 1977 about 10
miles southeast of Melba,
Idaho in the Snake River Birds
of Prey Natural Area.
If the animal traveled in a
straight line, the distance is
somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 60 miles. Badger
number 198 had to cross the
rugged Owyhee drainage, Suc
cor Creek (no small drainage
in itself), and possibly the
Snake River since it was
uncertain whether the animal
was tagged east or west of the
river.
In a letter to Oregon district
wildlife biologist Bill Olson of
Ontario, John Messick, re
search biologist who original
ly tagged the badger, said the
badger was a yearling when
captured and weighed about
15 pounds. "We have found
that young-of-year badgers
and some yearlings disperse
rather long distances from
their natal area," he wrote. "I
have not yet calculated the
distance moved by this
animal, but it may be the
longest yet recorded. One of
our juvenile females moved 50
km (31 miles)."
,The badger is one of the
larger members of the weasel
family and is best known for
its flattened appearance, fear
less demeanor, and digging
ability. Outdoor writer John
Madson once wrote a short
story about the badger appro
priately titled "The Fighting
Doormat."
The badger is one of the few
animals that makes its living
by outdigging other earth-
moving animals. Equipped
with short, powerful legs and
long claws, this squat carni
vore can move earth, faster
than the earth-living rodents
on which it feeds. The badger
will eat anything in the way of
meat, fresh or carrion, but
rodents make up the largest
items on its diet. It is found in
mountains as well as range
lands and prefers the dryer
climate of Eastern and South
ern Oregon.
1979 ANGLING
REGULATIONS NOW
AVAILABLE
The 1979 synopsis of angling
regulations is now available
from license agents through
out the state, according to the
Fish and Wildlife Department.
The booklets, which are nor
mally available Drior to Jan
uary 1, were delayed this year
due to paper shortages.
Booklets have been mailed
out during the past two weeks
from the Department's Port
land office and should now be
available wherever hunting
and fishing licenses are sold.
Booklets are free and the
Department urges all anglers
to pick up a copy of the new
rules.
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Rep. Ullman
re4ntroduce8
water rights bill
Oregon Congressman Al
Ullman re-introduced legisla
tion Monday that would vali
date existing contracts and
agreements between the fed
eral government and users of
water from federal irrigation
projects.
In introducing the measure
of the opening day of the 96th
Congress, Ullman emphasized
the importance of prompt
Congressional action to end
uncertainty among western
farmers and ranchers who
recieve water from federal
projects.
' Ullman's district includes
thousands of acres of land
irrigated by federal water
projects, primarily in the
central and southeastern por
tions of Oregon.
The Oregon Democrat orig
inally introduced the measure
in the last Congress, but
subsequent court actions de
layed implementation of pro
posed Interior Department
regulations which had clouded
the status of land holdings
irrigated with federal water.
The proposed Interior regu
lations are aimed at imple
menting the 160-acre per
person limitation contained in
the 1902 Reclamation Act.
"This bill is a simple one.. .It
will give Congress the oppor
tunity to demonstrate that the
federal government is as good
as its word," Ullman said.
Federal water users have
long relied on the Bureau of
Reclamation's interpretation
of law allowing for release
from the acreage limitations
once project construction
costs are repaid.
Ullman said some farmers
agreed to the restrictions and
conditions of the contracts
only because of government
assurances that the restric
tions would end on repayment.
The proposed Interior regu
lations would require disposal
of excess lands even by those
landowners who had been
assured they were released
from restrictions.
Ullman said his contract
ratification proposal should be
considered promptly and, if
need be, separately from the
general review of reclamation
law expected during the 96th
Congress.
"The only issue addressed
by this legislation is whether
the United States government
does indeed intend to keep its
words to Federal water users
in the Western states," Ull
man said.
The 2nd District congress
man said he would be review
ing the other, more compre
hensive, proposals for addres
sing problems raised by the
proposed Interior regulations,
including limitations based on
the potential of the land's
productivity, rather than an
arbitrary acreage restriction.
McElligott on
U. of Portland
honor roll
Michael James McElligott
of lone is listed on the fall
semester honor roll at the
University of Portland.
He is a senior in the School
of Business Adminsistration
at the university.
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