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TEN The Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 12, 1979
Irrigon-Boardman tittle League
finishes season with flourish
Controlled Hunt deadline near
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The Fish and Wildlife De
partment conducted a public
fisheries workshop in its
Portland headquarters at 7:30
p.m., Wednesday, July 11.
Fisheries staff of the De
partment presented abstracts
of management plans for
ten streams or stream sec
tions which are being consid
ered for classification under
the wild fish management
policy adopted last year.
Also up for discussion was a
possible reduction in the
stream trout bag limit next
year. The daily general limit
now is 10 trout and staff
biologists are considering a
possible reduction to 5 trout
per day on most streams in the
state. Bag limits would prob
ably remain at 10 per day on
most standing water bodies.
Hunt Deadline Soon
The last chance to apply for
any of the 1979 controlled deer
or elk hunts in Oregon is
Monday, July 16. Applications
postmarked after that date
cannot be entered in the
August 16 drawing.
Printed regulations listing
all hunts and application
procedures, and application
cards are available from
hunting and fishing license
agents all over the state.
Applications must be filled out
correctly and accompanied by
the appropriate application
fee to be entered in the
drawing, so hunters are urged
by the Fish and Wildlife
Department to carefully read
and follow application in
structions. Turkey Hunters Successful
Thirteen was the lucky
number for turkey hunters
reporting on the success of
their spring gobbler hunt this
year. Of 193 hunters who
returned their hunt informa
tion cards, that is the number
who reported success in bag
ging a turkey dinner.
Of that group, 37 said they
did not hunt so the success
rate for those who did hovered
around nine percent. Cold
weather, a later than normal
spring, and wide distribution
of the birds all appeared to be
factors in reducing the har
vest about 25 percent over the
previous two seasons.
Some 350 permits were
authorized for a nine-day
season the latter half of April.
Even though success; was
characteristically low,- more
Than half of those who jiunted
reported they had seen or
heard turkeys. Eight birds
were taken in the South Wasco
area, four from North wasco,
and one from the Northeast
area.
Ralph Denney, biologist in
charge of the Fish and Wildlife
Department's upland bird pro
gram, says a cooperative
research project is about to be
launched to learn more about
Oregon's Merriam turkeys
whose main population is
centered in Wasco County.
Participants will be, in addi
tion to the Department, Ore
gon State University and the
Mount Hood National Forest.
Field work will begin this
winter, Denney said, to eval
uate the effectiveness of
different methods of live-capturing
turkeys. In the past,
attempts to capture turkeys
here have met with mixed
success.
One method that has been
tried involves the use of a
cannon net. In this method a
large net is anchored along
one edge of a baited area. The
opposite edge of the net is
fired by several small cannons
over birds which have come to
bait. The net must be carefully
concealed, and the method
requires someone to be pre
sent to watch for the birds and
to fire the net at the
appropriate time.
It is an elaborate setup with
plenty of opportunities for
something to go wrong. But it
has nonetheless been success
ful on occasion in capturing
birds for transplant in other
areas and will be tried again
this winter.
Other methods to be eval
uated include use of drop nets,
baited walk-in traps, and
drugged baits which tempor
arily disorient and immobilize
the birds long enough t-r
capture by hand. Birds t p
tured during tests will be
banded and affixed with
streamer tags to help in
evaluating habit patterns and
movements in subsequent
sightings or recoveries.
The following winter, during
December and January, the
best trapping method will be
used in attempts to capture up
to 15 turkeys of various sex
and age which will be fitted
with small battery-powered
radio transmitters. Each
transmitter will emit a differ
ent signal, enabling biologists
in the field to follow their
movements with special radio
receivers. The birds will be
monitored for a full year in
order to learn more about
such things as movements
during various seasons, feed
and habitat-type preferences,
preferred nesting sites, roost
ing patterns and other habits.
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Butch Knowles
Knowles top rider
at St. Paul Rodeo
Butch Knowles of Heppner
earned the all-around cowboy
honors at the 44th annual St.
Paul Rodeo on the Fourth of
July. He claimed the honors
by winning the saddle bronc
riding championship and
places in bull riding.
His total purse was $3,080,
which included monies from
the rodeo association and the
Bank of Oregon. His name
also will go on the St. Paul
President's trophy, and he
now has a leg on the trophy. A
cowboy must win three times
to claim permanent posses
sion of the large prize.
Knowles won the honors
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Information gained in this
phase of the study will be a big
help to wildlife managers.
Turkeys are shy and secre
tive, and little is known about
them compared with other
game species. Other research
will attempt to determine the
best habitat types for the
various races of turkeys. It
may well be that some areas
are especially well-suited to
one variety but not another.
There is quite a bit of
interest in turkeys and in
turkey hunting and there may
U substantially more poten
tial for turkeys in Oregon than
has been realized so far, says
Denney. About 1,200 applica
tions are received each year
for the 350 permits available
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Knowles won the honors
from a field of 300 performers.
Total purse for the four-performance
rodeo was $52,900.
For winning the saddle bronc
championship, he received
$2,059, as well as a beautiful
silver belt buckle.
Julie Doering, Athena, won
$562, for placing first in the
girl barrelracing event. Tom
Flannekin and son, Tommy
Jr., won the team roping
event, with each receiving
$470. They are from Redmond,
Ore.
St. Paul's 45th annual rodeo
will be held next July 3, 4 and
in the spring turkey season, so
relatively few of those who
would like to hunt wild turkeys
are currently able to do so.
One turkey introduction that
may have a bright future
began with the release of-20
Rio Grande turkeys in 1975
near Medtord. Twenty birds is
an extremely small beginning
where the introduction of a
new wildlife species is con
cerned, but these birds seem
to be doing quite well.
As of this spring, biologists
could account for 125 to 150
birds and they seem to be
expanding their range as well
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as their numbers. The birds
came from northern Califor
nia. They had been introduced
there from Texas in about 1968
and in only a few years had
spread to 34 counties. The
habitat type in northern Calif
ornia where these birds have
done so well is quite similar to
that in much of Jackson and
Josephine counties.
There are also several small
populations of Eastern tur
keys east of Eugene and in the
Rogue River Canyon. There is
but one species of turkey in
North America, but six differ
ent races are recognized.
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The Irrigon Little League
finished an extensive' ball
season this week.
According to their coaches,
they "had a good bunch of kids
to work with."
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Gordon White, lone, caught
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The lone resident was
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They competed in the Col
umbia Little League with
teams from Umatilla, Stan
field, Echo and Boardman.
Other years, Irrigon and
Boardman combined their
teams since the youngsters
went to school together, but
this year there were just too
many kids to be combined and
transportation was a problem.
The major team of 10 to 12
year olds had 6 wins and 6
losses. Five will try out for the
all-star team. Their Manager,
and Coach David Seel gave
them a party Thursday night.
The Minor team coached by
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Lathrop had 10 wins and 2
losses. This is the 9 to 11 age
group.
Bill and Janet Cooley and
Vicky Van Doran coached
T-ball A team. They had 24
boys and girls learning the
fundamentals of baseball.
They stressed the importance
of giving everyone the oppor
tunity to play. Youngsters
ages ranged from 8 to 11. The
' team had 8 wins and 2 losses.
Dennis Kotilla and Stan
Rauch coached the T-ball B
team with 3 wins, 3 tied, 5
losses.
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