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Chapter Officers President Bill Dollar 503-804-2843 [email protected] Vice President Shirley Titus 503-551-4969 [email protected] Secretary Peg Morris 503-737-9483 [email protected] Treasurer Cheryl Dollar 503-781-1577 [email protected] Board of Directors John McGhehey 503-435-1716 [email protected] John Coppoletti 503-835-0486 [email protected] Kathie Oriet 503-434-0325 [email protected] Connie Billings 971-241-2219 [email protected] Art Pohl 503-537-9020 [email protected] Tayler Jerome 503-707-2728 [email protected] Andy Bodeen 503-490-2489 [email protected] Cody Titus 503-881-2431 [email protected] Braeden Bailey 503-437-4900 [email protected] Yamhill Chapter Oregon Hunters Association SEPTEMBER 2019 President’s Corner Hello OHA Members, I hope everyone has their hunts schedule, tags purchased and gear ready for what promises to be another great year. The Yamhill Chapter will be manning the Stimson gate behind Hagg Lake again for the elk and deer rifles seasons along with the extended youth weekend. Bryan Cook will be organizing the volunteer schedule this year so please shoot him an email of give him a call to get on the volunteer schedule. You can reach Bryan at (971/270-7035) or [email protected]. A huge shout out goes to our VP Shirley Titus for organizing and running The Yamhill County Fair booth along with the St. Paul Rodeo booth in July! Shirley had a rough go this year wrangling up volunteers and ended up having to cover a lot of shifts for both events herself. Both events were a success for the chapter in sell- ing calendars and she turned a nice profit for the chapter along the way for both events. So, I am very happy to announce Shirley won our volunteer rifle raffle with all the tickets she earned for making sure the booth was always occupied. Thanks, and great job, Shirley. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!! We also had our 5 th annual youth shoot August 11 with a lot of young, smiling faces to make it another successful youth shoot. This year we teamed up with Columbia County Chapter and Peg Morris and Art Pohl took the lead in organizing and running the youth shoot. This year we were able to offer a few more prizes/ gifts to the youth with one lucky winner walking away with a shotgun. Please read Peg Morris’s write up on the youth shoot in this month’s newsletter. 2020’s youth trap shoot has already been scheduled and set for August 15, 2020, so we hope it becomes bigger next year. Thanks to all the volunteers who make all these events possible! We will be gearing up for the 2020 banquet the next few months, so watch our social media sites for teasers! We also have a couple big awards to give out that will only be done at the general meet- ing and then announced in next month’s newsletter. So come join us to recognize a few outstanding members. I look forward to seeing you at the September 12th meeting. Thanks to all members, Bill Dollar Protecting Oregon’s wildlife, habitat and hunting heritage. Join us at our next chapter meeting. September 12th 7:00 PM American Legion Post McMinnville Speakers ** OSP Wildlife Trooper Tayler Jerome ** TIP Program Update ** Mike Billings ** 4-H Club Shooting Nationals
Transcript of Yamhill Chapter Oregon Hunters Association
Chapter Officers
President Bill Dollar 503-804-2843
Vice President Shirley Titus 503-551-4969
Secretary Peg Morris 503-737-9483
Treasurer Cheryl Dollar 503-781-1577
Board of Directors
John McGhehey 503-435-1716
John Coppoletti 503-835-0486
Kathie Oriet 503-434-0325
Connie Billings 971-241-2219
Art Pohl 503-537-9020
Tayler Jerome 503-707-2728
Andy Bodeen 503-490-2489
Cody Titus 503-881-2431
Braeden Bailey 503-437-4900
Yamhill Chapter
Oregon Hunters Association
SEPTEMBER 2019
President’s Corner
Hello OHA Members,
I hope everyone has their hunts schedule, tags purchased and gear
ready for what promises to be another great year. The Yamhill
Chapter will be manning the Stimson gate behind Hagg Lake
again for the elk and deer rifles seasons along with the extended
youth weekend. Bryan Cook will be organizing the volunteer
schedule this year so please shoot him an email of give him a call
to get on the volunteer schedule. You can reach Bryan at
(971/270-7035) or [email protected].
A huge shout out goes to our VP Shirley Titus for organizing and
running The Yamhill County Fair booth along with the St. Paul
Rodeo booth in July! Shirley had a rough go this year wrangling
up volunteers and ended up having to cover a lot of shifts for both
events herself. Both events were a success for the chapter in sell-
ing calendars and she turned a nice profit for the chapter along
the way for both events. So, I am very happy to announce Shirley
won our volunteer rifle raffle with all the tickets she earned for
making sure the booth was always occupied. Thanks, and great
job, Shirley. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!!
We also had our 5th annual youth shoot August 11 with a lot of
young, smiling faces to make it another successful youth shoot.
This year we teamed up with Columbia County Chapter and Peg
Morris and Art Pohl took the lead in organizing and running the
youth shoot. This year we were able to offer a few more prizes/
gifts to the youth with one lucky winner walking away with a
shotgun. Please read Peg Morris’s write up on the youth shoot in
this month’s newsletter. 2020’s youth trap shoot has already been
scheduled and set for August 15, 2020, so we hope it becomes
bigger next year. Thanks to all the volunteers who make all these
events possible!
We will be gearing up for the 2020 banquet the next few months,
so watch our social media sites for teasers! We also have a couple
big awards to give out that will only be done at the general meet-
ing and then announced in next month’s newsletter. So come join
us to recognize a few outstanding members.
I look forward to seeing you at the September 12th meeting.
Thanks to all members,
Bill Dollar
Protecting
Oregon’s
wildlife, habitat
and
hunting
heritage.
Join us at our next chapter meeting. September 12th
7:00 PM American Legion Post McMinnville
Speakers ** OSP Wildlife Trooper Tayler Jerome **
TIP Program Update
** Mike Billings ** 4-H Club Shooting Nationals
For Your Information THE 2016 OREGON CONSERVATION STRATEGY
The updated 2016 Oregon Conservation Strategy (Strategy) was officially approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in late August. The Strategy is the state’s State Wildlife Action Plan and is part of a nationwide framework for proactive, voluntary, partnership-based fish and wildlife conservation. All sections of the Strategy were reviewed and revised with the best available science, tools, and resources. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) worked with more than 200 external technical experts and a diverse Stakeholder Advisory Committee to ensure the Strategy was not an ODFW plan, but a plan for all Oregon partners. The Strategy is an overarching plan to conserve Oregon’s fish and wildlife and their habitats. It provides a shared set of priorities for addressing Oregon’s conservation needs. The Strategy combines the best available science and presents a menu of recommended voluntary actions and tools for all Oregonians to define their own conservation role. Strategy goals:
Maintain healthy fish and wildlife populations by maintaining and restoring functioning habitats. Prevent decline of at-risk species. Reverse downturns in these resources where possible.
Briefly, the Strategy:
Identifies priority conservation issues and proposes voluntary conservation actions. Increases effectiveness and success of conservation efforts statewide by improving coordination between partners. Helps focus investments. Is an information source for landowners, land managers, educators, and partners. Provides opportunities for all Oregonians to find a role in conservation.
The Strategy outlines conservation priorities at different scales:
Key Conservation Issues (KCIs): 7 statewide conservation issues or threats that
affect species and habitats over large landscapes.
Ecoregions: Delineated areas of Oregon with similar climate and vegetation. Conservation issues and priorities,
limiting factors, and recommended actions are outlined for 9 ecoregions.
Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs): 206 priority locations across Oregon where conservation efforts provide
the most benefit to the greatest number of fish and wildlife species of conservation need.
Strategy Habitats: 11 native habitats of conservation concern that are essential to many Strategy Species.
Strategy Species: 295 species of greatest conservation need, including amphibians, birds, mammals, reptiles, fish,
invertebrates, and plants and algae. Strategy Species have small or declining populations, or are otherwise at-risk.
Monitoring: Monitoring is key to determining the status of Strategy Species and Strategy Habitats, and evaluating
effectiveness of conservation actions over time.
Conservation Toolbox: A place where Oregonians can define their own conservation role through
recommendations and information found here.
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Key Conservation Issues
include Disruption of Disturbance Regimes. Photo courtesy USFS
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2019 Youth Shotgun Shoot
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Talk about success! That is the only way you can describe the 5
th Annual Youth Shotgun Shoot held August 11
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Rod and Gun Club. With thirty-three youth ages 5 through 17 par-ticipating, with ability levels from “never held a shotgun before” to members of area youth trap shooting teams, and with the support of OHA and NRGC volunteers and parents, the event started off with a bang – literally. And only pictures can give a true view of the day. Our thanks to OHAYC members Art Pohl and Peg Morris for co-ordinating the event and to all the OHA and NRGC members who volunteered their time and efforts to make the day so successful.
OHAYC: Art Pohl, Peg Morris, Connie Billings, Lonnie Sizer, Larry Robinson, Tayler Jerome, Bryan Cook OHA Columbia Chapter: Jordan Hicks NRGC: Melissa Craig, David Craig, Lori Cahill, Randy Grauer, Wyatt Land, David Goehner, Ed Shones, Anita Schones, Shavagn Petraitis
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(1) Hunter Watkins, first time, first round, 5 for 5 (2) Ready, aim, got it! (3) The smile of success (4) Melissa Craig, NRGC trap instructor (5) Alexis Ellenwood, first time suc-cessful shooter (6) I’ve got this! (9) Pull! (10) First time instructions (11) Lisie Luttrell after her 5 for 5 round (12) A break between rounds (13) Gus Brunner, a happy shooter after his 5 for 5 round (14) It’s as much fun to hit the pull button as it is to shoot
6th Annual Youth Shotgun Shoot set for Saturday, August 15, 2020
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More Info (Continued from page 2) COMPASS: CREATE & SHARE MAPS ODFW’s Compass online mapping tool has proven to be successful for project planners, providing spatial information on Oregon’s fish and wildlife species and habitats and helping users make informed decisions. A significant upgrade was completed to the Compass mapping platform alongside the development of OregonConservationStrategy.org. Among many other improvements to the Compass platform, additional layers were added to provide quick and easy access to spatial representations of Strategy priorities across the landscape:
Strategy Species habitat distribution models
Strategy Habitats range maps
Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs) Key Conservation Issue data layers
Arthur Rodriguez, primary developer of the original Compass released in 2014, expects the new version to surpass us-ers’ expectations. “We concentrated the upgrade on making Compass easier to use and connected more with the Strategy,” Rodriguez, ODFW’s Conservation Strategy GIS Analyst said. Highlights of the upgrade:
Connectivity to the Strategy – through Compass, users can access specific Strategy content, such as
viewing COA profiles through the COA data layer or follow links to Strategy components such as Ecore-gions, Strategy Habitats and Strategy Species. This gives additional context and detail to the spatial layers being viewed within Compass.
Organization – Compass map layers are now organized by themes, following the same organization used
within the Strategy. This allows the inclusion of many more datasets while not overwhelming the user. A search tool lets users immediately find layers of interest.
Share maps and information – create user generated maps through selecting map layers and zooming
into an area of interest, then save your map to work with later or share it via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Generate reports – use the Strategy Reporting Tool to generate a list of documented Strategy components
within a customized project area. Easy to use – use the tutorial to learn more about Compass features, and follow links for each dataset to download GIS data, view data documentation, and link to data sources.
Compass was originally developed alongside the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Crucial Habitat As-sessment Tool (WAFWA CHAT, www.wafwachat.org) which provided funding, support, and the opportunity for states within the project to develop their own state systems. The crucial habitat assessment layers will continue to be main-tained and available within Compass, and a significant update to them was completed in July 2016 using data developed during the Strategy revision.
Like so many things in life, trap shooting has it’s rules and regulations, as explained by David Craig, trap instructor from NRGC.
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2019 OHA Summit
Oregon Hunters Association held their annual summit meeting August 2-4 at Diamond Lake. Attending from the Yamhill Chapter were Connie Billings, Peg Morris, and Andy Bodeen. Several intense sessions provided chapters attending with information on numerous state activities, policies, goals, and partnerships as well as updates from ODFW. Briefly, some of the information provided is high-lighted below.
Membership … Currently OHA has over 10,000 members who provided 32,000 hours of volunteer work.
ODFW … Big game regulations review began two years ago. The goals of the review are: (1)improve customer service, (2) allocate hunting opportunities fairly, (3) review season structure and allocation, and (4) ensure seasons meet biological objectives. Some of the proposals ODFW is making are: (1) 127 hunts consolidated into 49, (2) 91 hunt dates expanded, (3) 85 areas ex-panded, and (4) 57 bag limit simplifications.
Outreach … People don’t know about OHA, and that includes current members. Amy Patrick (Outreach Coordinator staying on as a half-time OHA employee once her current grant expires this month) and Cindy Rooney (SW state board member) are on phase one of the state outreach plan to draft a framework of 8 phases. Highlighted were ideas for getting the OHA message out through the use of Instagram and other social media.
State Board … Organization issues the board is working on include: developing the outreach pro-gram and social media guidelines, updating the OHA strategic plan, participation in the ODFW Learn to Hunt event, retaining membership, and new OHA videos. Highlights of the wildlife issues the board is involved with are the cougar plan, the wolf plan, Columbia Basin elk damage, private land/elk management, poaching, 2019 big game regulations, the turkey management plan, and the martin trapping ban.
Anyone wishing to receive a summary of information presented at summit may do so by contacting Peg Mor-ris at wanderingphotogal.com. One of the highlights of every summit is the recognition of chapters and chapter members for their efforts to further the goals of OHA. Yamhill Chapter received three awards this year! Please join us September 12th, 7:00 PM, at the American Legion Post in McMinnville as these awards are presented.
Raffle winner Tucker van Dyke
will claim the shotgun provided by OHAYC and OHA Columbia Chapter.
More Youth Shoot
Photos
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