TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 9, 1997
April 14th
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Idea suggested to cope w ith land
closures
U S P S. 240-420
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Letter home from Bosnia
(Editor's note: The following letter from Bosnia was written by
Morrow County District Attorney Earl R. Woods, who is serving
in Bosnia with his National Guard unit.)
To the Editor:
. . .Wildlife Commission and
hunters of the North Fossil Unit -
As most people know, Kinzua
Resources has sold the hunting
rights on approximately 70,000
acres in the North Fossil Unit.
This leaves 35,000 acres open to
the public.
Kinzua Resources threatened to
do this if Measure 38 passed.
Measure 38 was voted down and
they went ahead and closed it
anyway. Also, they offered the
hunting rights to the Wildlife
Commission for 50 cents an acre.
The
Wildlife
Commission
wanted no part of this. They
were afraid other landowners
would follow suit.
Believe me, if the Wildlife
Commission doesn't think this
$2,500 to $6,000 bull elk isn't
catching on, they don't know
anything about the South Fossil
Unit.
There are some steps that could
be taken to prevent this:
Step I — Limited entry drawing
for all. tags.
Step 2 — Land that has paid
hunting will be taxed as
recreation land.
Step 3 — Drawing for tags based
on the amount of land open to the
general public.
Step 4 — Limited entry. Spikes
only every other year.
Step 5 - Limited entry drawing
for all tags with compensation to
the landowner. For example, if
there were 4,100 tags issued to
the archery and rifle seasons and
everybody paid $20 extra with
their tag fee, there would be a
pool of $82,000, of which 90
percent ($73,800) would revert
back to the landowners.
How would this work?
Every landowner who opened
his land to the general public
would receive 50 cents an acre.
The landowner who had limited
entry would receive $ 18 per tag
and 55 cents, an acre for the
portion of his property open to
the general public. The hunter,
would give his hunting license
number to just one landowner.
The landowner would send this
in and be reimbursed by the
Wildlife Commission.
This
would work with some minor
changes and might also give
other landowners the incentive to
open some of their property.
This would have to go before the
legislature, but if enough hunters
agree, I see no problem.
On March 11 and 12, the
Wildlife
Commission
held
meetings at Fossil and Heppner.
The people at these meetings
voted on next year's proposal.
Out of these two meetings, 61
people voted for unlimited entry
for bull and cows. No mention
was made of deer. Where there
are approximately 1,820 buck
hunters, unlimited bull and bow
hunters, I feel that 61 people is a
poor representation.
Due to this, myself and several
friends are getting up a petition
to have strictly limited entry tags,
with consideration to land that
has paid hunting and the open
public ground. If this is not
done,
there are several
landowners who will close their
property due to the fact that there
will be too many hunters forced
upon them.
Anyone interested in this
petition can call me, 468-2855,
or sign the petition at local
businesses.
It seems the Wildlife
Commission has no interest in
addressing this problem. So the
hunters will have to do this
themselves.
(s)Robert Ordway
Spray, Oregon 97874
Heppner Veterans
Office closed
Births
Rita Hedman, Morrow County
Veterans Service office, will be
attending the semi-annual Veter
ans’ Conference in Cottage Grove
April 15-18, and will not be in the
Heppner office on Thursday,
April 17.
Ruben Javier Gonzales-a
son Ruben Javier was bom to
Quirina and Ruben Gonzales of
Irrigon on March 26,1997 at Good
Shepherd Community Hospital in
Hermiston. The baby weighed 6
lbs. 13 oz.
Every once in awhile I get to feeling sorry for myself for being
thrown into a situation at age 53 where I’m living in a tent in a
foreign country without the benefits of civilization. I was feeling
that way the other day when I met Lena.
I Was out with members of the Hungarian .Army inspecting work
that their engineers had done on the bridge between Bosnia and
Croatia at Slavonski Brod. The bridge, which was blown up
during the war, is in less than perfect condition (as is everything
else in this area) and has to be inspected every time we want to put
our tanks and equipment across it. During the process of the
inspection we went under the bridge to inspect the footings and
while we were under there we met Lena.
Lena is an older widowed Serb who lives in a house that was 90
percent destroyed during the war. The house is situated on the east
bank of the Sava River and prior to the war was probably not a bad
place. Now, there is only one room intact and it doesn't have a
roof. What it does have is sheets of corrugated metal which she
put up between the first and second floor which sort of serves as a
roof for the one room. Two things became evident once Lena
approached us and began to speak. One is that she was very angry
and the second is that she was pretty drunk.
The thing that had Lena so mad was the conduct of the Serbian
Police. It seems that Lena was caring for a prune orchard and a
garden just below her house until last week and was intending to
use the prunes and produce she expected to raise as a means of
providing income for herself Sometime during last week the
Serbian Police came and planted a mine field in her orchard and
her garden, replete with trip wires. She wanted us to remove the
mines. I had to tell her that not only could we not remove the
mines, but there was only one agency, under the rules of
engagement, that can remove the mines. You guessed it-the
Serbian Police.
Lena invited all of us in to have a drink with her in spite of the
bad
Unfortunately
rules
of General
Order
#1, no
1997 news.
Heppner
High School under
Prom the
Court
(L-R):
Prince Eric
Schonbachler,
Princess Brandi Marshall, Prince
American
soldier
can consume
alcohol in the
"box".
I had Waterland,
to give
Jim
Schlaich,
Princess
Mandi Gutierrez,
Queen
Lindsey
King Rick Worden, Princess Lori
her that and
as bad
news
also,
as I got the impression that she was
Moeller,
Prince
Brian
Koffler
awfully lonely. However, the good news is that I'm not feeling
sorry for High
myself
anymore
and
later Saturday,
that night
I had
the the strangest
Heppner
School
held its
prom
Apnl
5, at
high school. Seniors Rick Worden and Lindsey
dream
that
a
grey-haired
soldier
and
two
engineers
Waterland were crowned King and Queen. Princesses removed
were Lori a Moeller, Mandi Gutierrez and Brandi
bunch
of mines
garden Koffler,
and orchard.
It must and
be something
Marshall.
Princes from
were a Brian
Jim Schlaich
Eric Schonbachler.
I ate.
April 17th
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