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1 OHA PIONEER CHAPTER Po Box 673 Aurora, OR Nonprofit US Postage PIONEER CHAPTER PAID PO Box 673, Aurora, OR Portland, OR Permit No 2343 ~ ~ Published Monthly Volume ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTED December 2016 «OneCode» «presorttrayid» «presortdate» «Membership Number» «NLDate» «First Name» «Last Name» «address» «city-state-zip» «Renewal» «Renewal1» CHAPTER OFFICERS President Vice Pres. Secretary Treasurer Bill Park Tim Sowa Terry Jones Brian Andrews Ph Ph Ph Ph ~~~~ David Scott Newsletter Editor Joy Smith Ph Ph BOARD MEMBERS Buck Teasley Jerry Holbrook Duane Johnson Dean Kieling Steve Hess Sam Saunders David Scott Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph Ph S P I K E C A M P DATES TO REMEMBER OHA PIONEER CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIPS Canby Gun & Knife Show December 3rd 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM December 4th 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Clackamas County Fairgrounds, Canby Our OHA Chapter sponsors two scholarships for our members for continuing education each year. Pioneer Chapter Monthly Meeting Wednesday, December 7-7:00 PM Canby Rod & Gun Club You won t want to miss The Great Ham Give-Away at this meeting! Pioneer Chapter Banquet Committee Meeting December 15th - 7:00 PM At the Skou s in Beavercreek Portland Gun & Knife Show December 17th 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM December 18th 10:00 AM to 4:00PM Portland Expo Center Pioneer Chapter Board Meeting Wednesday, December 28th-7:00 PM TA Truck Stop, Aurora Next Month Happy 2017 Wishing you peace, love, laughter and good hunting in the New Year! Pioneer Chapter Monthly Meeting Wednesday, January 4, :00 PM Canby Rod & Gun Club Collector s West Gun & Knife Show January 28th 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM January 29th 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Clackamas County Fairgrounds, Canby Qualification Criteria: 1. Scholarships are available to any member of the Pioneer Chapter of OHA, their children or grandchildren. 2. The scholarship may be used at any accredited academic, trade, technical, or business school with a goal of an associate s degree, higher degree of education or a trade school certificate of completion. 3. The scholarship award will be sent to the successful applicant s school of study. This money is to be used for educational purposes. 4. The scholarship must be used prior to January 1 of the following year. If an exception is necessary, a request must be made to the Pioneer Chapter Board in writing. Selection Criteria: 1. Applicants must submit a short essay, in their own words, of 500 hundred words or less. Essays must be based on a minimum of two, but no more than three of the categories shown on the application. The application is available at, ScholarshipApp.pdf. 2. Successful applicants may submit an application to be considered for the following year s scholarships, but in order to qualify for another scholarship, the successful applicant must show the board that they have successfully completed the course work for which the previous scholarship was given. Return application and essay by January 31, 2017, to: OHA Pioneer Chapter 5611 SE Oetkin Rd. Milwaukie, OR Or application and essay to: steuerrp@gmail.com

2 BANQUET TIME! OHA IN OUR COMMUNITY November 19 & 20: Rose City Gun & Knife Show Thank you to all the members who staffed our booth at this 2 day show. We talked to the public about OHA, signed up members and sold tickets on our Lucky Three gun raffle. November 19: Adopt-A-Highway Seven members cleaned our #1 area, from Carus Road to Union Hall Road along Hwy 213. Sixteen bags of trash were picked up and 25.5 hours were donated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to all who volunteered their time for the September projects. These projects continue throughout the year so there will be opportunities this fall for you to participate. We have lots of fun as we work together to improve wildlife habitat and train the next generation of hunters. Ask about our volunteer incentives! There are quarterly drawings and each time you participate on a project your name is added to the drawing for prizes. To find out more about these projects and how you can be a part of wildlife support efforts, come to a monthly meeting at the Canby Rod and Gun Club or call: Rich Steuer Dick Crawford Wow, December already! If you haven t already purchased a package for the banquet you might want to think about it. Does that husband of yours have everything they need for Christmas? If not, how about a Banquet Package or a Tall Wall, Short Wall or maybe a Les Schwab Package. All you have to do is contact David Scott at to make arrangements. Certificates can be mailed or picked up once payment is received. Speaking of the banquet, we are always looking for donations. The more donations we receive the less money we have to spend which offsets the banquet expenses. Without the help of all of you getting donations we wouldn t be as successful. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hope to see you at our 21st Annual Fund -Raiser Banquet on Saturday, March 4, 2017! David Scott, REMEMBER... Membership must be current by March 4th (Banquet Day). Renew now! Fill out, cut out and mail the Banquet Registration form in this newsletter to: or OHA Pioneer Chapter C/O David Scott 2725 SE Concord Rd Milwaukie, OR Registration forms also available online at BANQUET PICTURES Short Wall Gun Raffle One of our many youth banquet volunteers You ll have a great time meeting other Pioneer Chapter members, eating good food and supporting an important organization!

3 BANQUET TIME! OHA IN OUR COMMUNITY November 19 & 20: Rose City Gun & Knife Show Thank you to all the members who staffed our booth at this 2 day show. We talked to the public about OHA, signed up members and sold tickets on our Lucky Three gun raffle. November 19: Adopt-A-Highway Seven members cleaned our #1 area, from Carus Road to Union Hall Road along Hwy 213. Sixteen bags of trash were picked up and 25.5 hours were donated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to all who volunteered their time for the September projects. These projects continue throughout the year so there will be opportunities this fall for you to participate. We have lots of fun as we work together to improve wildlife habitat and train the next generation of hunters. Ask about our volunteer incentives! There are quarterly drawings and each time you participate on a project your name is added to the drawing for prizes. To find out more about these projects and how you can be a part of wildlife support efforts, come to a monthly meeting at the Canby Rod and Gun Club or call: Rich Steuer Dick Crawford Wow, December already! If you haven t already purchased a package for the banquet you might want to think about it. Does that husband of yours have everything they need for Christmas? If not, how about a Banquet Package or a Tall Wall, Short Wall or maybe a Les Schwab Package. All you have to do is contact David Scott at to make arrangements. Certificates can be mailed or picked up once payment is received. Speaking of the banquet, we are always looking for donations. The more donations we receive the less money we have to spend which offsets the banquet expenses. Without the help of all of you getting donations we wouldn t be as successful. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hope to see you at our 21st Annual Fund -Raiser Banquet on Saturday, March 4, 2017! David Scott, REMEMBER... Membership must be current by March 4th (Banquet Day). Renew now! Fill out, cut out and mail the Banquet Registration form in this newsletter to: or OHA Pioneer Chapter C/O David Scott 2725 SE Concord Rd Milwaukie, OR Registration forms also available online at BANQUET PICTURES Short Wall Gun Raffle One of our many youth banquet volunteers You ll have a great time meeting other Pioneer Chapter members, eating good food and supporting an important organization!

4 OHA meets with Metro to discuss no-hunting policy OHA met with Metro officials in November to discuss the prohibition of hunting on property recently purchased by the agency. The prohibition, first brought to the attention of the OHA board in August by OHA member Bryan Cook, was first aired publicly at a hearing in September before the House Interim Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee in Salem. The meeting with Metro in November was a continuation of the hunting prohibition policy discussion: the recently purchased property has traditionally been open to hunting prior to the OHA is interested in re-opening hunting as a legitimate form of recreation on Metro properties, and as a tool to manage wildlife. purchase. OHA is interested in re-opening hunting as a legitimate form of recreation, and as a tool to manage wildlife numbers through cooperation with ODFW. What s next? Metro will conduct a periodic review of its recreational usage policies in 2017 via a review committee made up, in part, of groups who have an interest in using the Metro properties for recreation. OHA has been invited to join OHA TRACKER DECEMBER 2016 that group. Metro has asked for more information about the available science to model predicted levels of expected animal damage related to populations (i.e. forage needs), and for examples of management plans for mixed use including hunting as part of recreation models. OHA will provide examples of both as conversations continue. Bid received to buy Elliott Forest The Division of State Lands (DSL) has received a bid to purchase the Elliott State Forest from Lone Rock Timber Management as the lead participant in conjunction with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. Public comment on the proposal will be taken by the DSL board in December. OHA is currently reviewing the proposal. After years of declining logging, the Elliott Forest could not do what state statutes said it must do, and that was raise money for the Common School Fund. So the DSL started a very long process to sell the property and open public bidding to transfer the forest ownership. After the process was announced, more than 30 groups submitted expressions of interest in acquiring the 84,000 acres, which was appraised at $220.8 million. Bids on the property were accepted in November and one bid was received by DSL. ODFW funding: new options for sharing the tab A task force was created during the 2015 Legislative Session (HB 2402) to identify funding alternatives for ODFW that would help shift some of the agency funding responsibility away from traditional sources such as license fees. After months of deliberations, the task force recommended these two funding sources: an income tax surcharge, and a 2-percent tax on bottled beverages. The original recommendation for the income tax The task force recommended two funding sources: an income tax surcharge, and a 2-percent tax on bottled beverages. surcharge included an exemption for those who held current hunting and fishing licenses. OHA supported the income tax surcharge with the exemption. As discussions continued, the exemption for those who hold hunting and fishing licenses was removed. In other words, the income tax surcharge would now apply to everyone. OHA adopted a position to accept the task force report without endorsing an income tax surcharge, with the beverage tax as the preferred alternative. Al Elkins, OHA Lobbyist alvinelkins@yahoo.com Bend Chapter youth bird hunt Nov. 19 See this week s Hunting Headlines at

5 Fighting Like Cats and Dogs By Jim Akenson OHA Conservation Director While OHA toils to maintain Oregon s deer and elk herds, predators are under ever-increasing protection efforts from environmental groups. We face a constant battle to maintain our precious deer, elk, and antelope hunting opportunities, and one crucial component for that is an active predator management program that not only includes cougars, black bears and wolves, but also coyotes and bobcats. Ideally, regulated hunting eventually will apply to all these predatory species be they game, furbearers or unprotected mammals by definition. In addition, OHA will remain vigilant on the trapping issue in our state and lend support to our bobcat hunting members who use methods involving either traps or hounds. The month of December will bring the last opportunity for the hunting community to give input on the Wolf Plan, and OHA is an active participant in a stakeholder group organized by ODFW. Earlier meetings have danced around the topic of hunting wolves once the numbers warrant it, but the time is now to get a foot in the door for near-future wolf management as game animals. Wolves are considered a special status big game species in Oregon, which means as populations grow, they are eligible to be hunted, or managed, just like other carnivore game species such as bears and cougars. The special status implies that the population provisions within the plan must be met to do careful management, and the big game aspect considers them a species that potentially can be hunted in the future. This is critical to our future hunting opportunities; just ask our colleagues in Idaho! On the cat side of the battle (cougars in this case), it s essential that we maintain current hunting opportunities and apply more focused removals where necessary. Previously we have referred to these as target areas, but we would be wise to reference them as cougar special management zones, because there will be more data-science obtained and applied for these areas as part of the Cougar Plan revision. The input process is different for the big cats than the big dogs, but the use of hunting as a timetested management tool is the same just applied on different scales. There will be another opportunity for public input to the Fish and Wildlife Commission in coming months once these two plans are near completion, and OHA will make sure our concerns are heard and that the best science prevails in managing our wildlife. Win a Guided BUCk Hunt on The Nature Conservancy s Famous Zumwalt Prairie Preserve! 1 Hunter and up to 2 non-hunting guests & 1 guide for 3 days in 2017! Tickets: $50, or 3 for $ offered. Value: $4,900. Drawing: March 9, To buy tickets: Call the OHA State Office at , or mail check and contact info to OHA, P.O. Box 1706, Medford, OR day guided deer rifle hunt for 1 hunter on the 33,000-acre Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Oregon s Wallowa County in the fall 2017 season (dates TBD; likely October). Hunter may bring up to 2 guests who do not hunt. Hunting is all on foot and hunters should be in good physical condition. Recent hunter success rate has been close to 100%. Trophy bucks are common. The Preserve is part of the largest remaining intact Pacific Northwest bunchgrass prairie in North America. Food, beverages, gear, & gratuity not included. Transportation to Preserve not included (once there, guide will provide transportation). Deer tag is guaranteed, but hunter is responsible for license/tag cost. Must make arrangements by April 1, Raffle hosted by OHA. Drawing: March 9, 2017, 7 p.m. Eagle s Club, 2000 Table Rock Rd., Medford, OR. Need not be present to win. Check out and follow OHA s new Instagram: oregonhuntersassociation/ We will be posting photos from projects and events throughout the year that further our mission. Please check it out!

6 OHA PIONEER CHAPTER Po Box 673 Aurora, OR Nonprofit US Postage PAID Portland, OR Permit No 2343 ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTED CHAPTER OFFICERS President Bill Park Ph Vice Pres. Tim Sowa Ph Secretary Terry Jones Ph Treasurer Brian Andrews Ph ~~~~ David Scott Ph Newsletter Editor Joy Smith Ph BOARD MEMBERS Buck Teasley Ph Jerry Holbrook Ph Duane Johnson Ph Dean Kieling Ph Steve Hess Ph Sam Saunders Ph David Scott Ph