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Vale Rancher Receives $13,250 Grant for Elk Hazing Program and Fence Repair
ODFW
7/1/02
VALE –Vale rancher Ray Belnap has received a $13,250 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to continue an elk hazing program on his 3,000-acre Cow Valley property in Malheur County.
Over 20 years, a 300-elk herd has damaged his cultivated agricultural crops. Efforts to control herd numbers by hunting have not been successful because of limited public access on lands surrounding his property.
To help alleviate elk damage, Belnap will use the grant money from the Access and Habitat Program to hire two people to move elk off his property and assist in repairing elk-damaged fences. The landowner allows hunting for big game and upland birds on the affected property on a by-permission basis.
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 Susan Barnes at (503) 872-5260, extension 5595.
ODFW
7/1/02
VALE –Vale rancher Ray Belnap has received a $13,250 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to continue an elk hazing program on his 3,000-acre Cow Valley property in Malheur County.
Over 20 years, a 300-elk herd has damaged his cultivated agricultural crops. Efforts to control herd numbers by hunting have not been successful because of limited public access on lands surrounding his property.
To help alleviate elk damage, Belnap will use the grant money from the Access and Habitat Program to hire two people to move elk off his property and assist in repairing elk-damaged fences. The landowner allows hunting for big game and upland birds on the affected property on a by-permission basis.
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 Susan Barnes at (503) 872-5260, extension 5595.
