With the passage in the state House of Representatives last week of Rep. Sherrie Sprenger’s bill to create pilot programs to hunt cougars with dogs, the onus is on the state Senate to correct a mistake made by well-meaning but short-sighted voters who passed Measure 18 in 1994.
The Oregon House of Representatives passed House Bill 2337 45-14 on April 20. The bill, carried by Sprenger, allows for the creation of pilot programs in which…