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The buns were just a bonus. The meals he made of those provisions were among the few pleasant parts of an otherwise painful experience that Strus, 63, of Richland, Washington, last week in the mountains north of Keating Valley. After the rocky edge of a remote forest road gave way beneath the weight of his 2006 Dodge three-quarter ton flatbed pickup around dusk on Sunday, May 2, the truck rolled once, landing on its wheels near a small stream. âMy beautiful truck is not so beautiful anymore,â he said. âI hit pretty hard.â It all started because Strus, who moved to Baker County around 2005, wanted to go fishing at Balm Creek Reservoir. He had tried to reach the reservoir some days before from the west, via Medical Springs, but was turned back by snowdrifts. ....
Experiments in Coexistence Juliet Grable December 22, 2020 It’s after midnight, and Alyssa Mahaney is standing at the edge of a pasture, howling. If a wolf responds in kind, she’ll know better where to focus her nightly patrol. Perhaps she’ll set up a “scare box,” which blasts music unpredictably, or shoot off a few blanks from her pistol to scare it away. The Rogue Pack is responsible for more livestock kills than any other in Oregon. Its founder was OR-7 (pictured), arguably the most celebrated wolf in the West. Photo by USFWS. Mahaney is a conflict prevention specialist for USDA Wildlife Services; she works with livestock producers in southwest Oregon who hope to avoid losing cows to an infamous group of wolves known as the Rogue Pack. ....