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Wednesday, July 17, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 17 Deschutes jail installs body scanner Study shows common butterflies on decline Over the past several months, the Deschutes County Sheriff 9s Office Adult Jail has been training and implementing the use of a body scanner in the jail to combat the illegal introduc- tion of drugs and contraband. <Individuals that are booked into the jail at times will attempt to bring items into the jail that are either illegal, dangerous, or not permitted into our facility,= Sgt. William Bailey stated. <Whether it9s tobacco, drugs, or weapons, inmates will do whatever it takes to get something in if they have an agenda to do so. Much of this contraband comes in dur- ing the booking process, by inmates attempting to hide it in their mouth, clothing, stomach, and body cavities. It makes it very difficult for our correctional profession- als to find it with normal pat searches and unclothed searches.= Sheriff L. Shane Nelson has spent the last three years working with the Oregon State Sheriffs9 Association (OSSA) to bring body scan- ners to sheriff9s offices across the state of Oregon. The OSSA understands that contraband is a serious By Steve Lundeberg Correspondent PHOTO PROVIDED A new scanner will help keep contraband out of the jail. issue, and they wanted to take immediate action to find a solution to this important safety issue,= Sgt. Bailey stated. <Their hard work and dedication has allowed OSSA to negotiate a reduced price on the latest technology in body scanners from Smiths Detection. Negotiations have not only reduced the price significantly, but the cost of training, shipping, installa- tion and support has been included with the purchase of this product.= CORVALLIS 4 The most extensive and systematic insect monitoring program ever undertaken in North America shows that butterfly abundance in Ohio declined yearly by 2 percent, result- ing in an overall 33 percent drop for the 21 years of the program. Though the study was lim- ited to one group of the insect class and one geographic area, the findings provide an important baseline for what9s happening more broadly with insect populations amid climate change and other human-caused disturbances, the study9s corresponding author said. The findings also are in line with those of but- terfly monitoring programs in multiple European countries. <These declines in abun- dance are happening in com- mon species,= said Oregon State University researcher Tyson Wepprich, who led the study. <Declines in common species concern me because it shows that there are wide- spread environmental causes for the declines affecting spe- cies we thought were well adapted to share a landscape with humans. Common spe- cies are also the ones that contribute the bulk of the pollination or bird food to the ecosystem, so their slow, consistent decline is likely having ripple effects beyond butterfly numbers.= Findings were published today in PLOS ONE. Wepprich, a postdoctoral scholar in botany and plant pathology in OSU9s College of Agricultural Sciences, used more than 24,000 but- terfly surveys contributed by trained citizen scientists from 1996 through 2016 to estab- lish his findings. <Because it9s easier to monitor butterflies than other insects 3 lots of people like butterflies and enjoy keep- ing track of them 3 butterflies tend to be the best source of abundance data for tracking insect population declines and increases,= Wepprich said. <Environmental assess- ments use them as an indica- tor for the general trajectory See BUTTERFLIES on page 25