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ODFW News Release
For Immediate Release
June 4, 2003
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ODFW Provides Grant for Big Game Habitat Enhancement
HEREFORD – A $17,900 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Access and Habitat Program will be used by a Baker County rancher to replace crops eaten by elk and to allow five years of public hunting access.
Pat Sullivan’s property is surrounded by fee hunting operations and as many as 200 elk wander from those lands onto his alfalfa and grass fields from late summer to October.
The Access and Habitat funds will be used to purchase new irrigation equipment. Planting an additional crop field will allow Sullivan to replace the alfalfa and grass eaten by the elk while still affording them some forage.
In addition to the Access and Habitat Program grant, Sullivan is contributing $26,000 toward the cost of the project. In return for the funding, the landowner will permit public hunting on his property on a by-permission basis for the next five years.
.Created by the Oregon Legislature in 1993, the A&H Program is funded by a $2 surcharge on hunting licenses. Funds raised by the program are distributed through grants to individual and corporate landowners, conservation organizations, and others for cooperative wildlife habitat improvement and hunter access projects throughout the state.
For more information on the Access and Habitat Program, contact program coordinator Susan Barnes at (503) 872-5260, extension 5349.
For Immediate Release
June 4, 2003
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ODFW Provides Grant for Big Game Habitat Enhancement
HEREFORD – A $17,900 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Access and Habitat Program will be used by a Baker County rancher to replace crops eaten by elk and to allow five years of public hunting access.
Pat Sullivan’s property is surrounded by fee hunting operations and as many as 200 elk wander from those lands onto his alfalfa and grass fields from late summer to October.
The Access and Habitat funds will be used to purchase new irrigation equipment. Planting an additional crop field will allow Sullivan to replace the alfalfa and grass eaten by the elk while still affording them some forage.
In addition to the Access and Habitat Program grant, Sullivan is contributing $26,000 toward the cost of the project. In return for the funding, the landowner will permit public hunting on his property on a by-permission basis for the next five years.
.Created by the Oregon Legislature in 1993, the A&H Program is funded by a $2 surcharge on hunting licenses. Funds raised by the program are distributed through grants to individual and corporate landowners, conservation organizations, and others for cooperative wildlife habitat improvement and hunter access projects throughout the state.
For more information on the Access and Habitat Program, contact program coordinator Susan Barnes at (503) 872-5260, extension 5349.
