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"It's another way of saying an essay ends on the page A short story ends somewhere in the reader's mind " Lopez is best known for his non-fiction work in natural history He won the National Book Award in l'iHfi for An tu Dreams, which grew out of Ins earlier book. Of Wolves and Men. But throughout his life, he also has written fic tion His latest offering is a collection of short sto ries. Field Nnh's The book completes the trilogy started in ltififi by Desert .Votes, followed by River Notes in 1«»7<I Since he was n boy. growing up in Southern Cal dunlin's San Fernando Valley, Ixipez Inis looked to wildlife and the landscape to help iiim answer big questions, such as why ,s there human suffering? Later, a professoral the University introduced him to the culture of the Nn\ a jo Oik c that dour opened. Lreali/ed tli.it what 1 wanted to knots. I would learn by going outside my own t ulture and coming ha< k in." Lopez said. "I was % ery interested in bringing hat k a story, of one sort or another, that was useful to my own peo ple. about other people " In the opening story in / ieid Notes. “Inlrodut lion: Within Birds’ Hearing." a man runs out of water hiking across the desert and collapses, near death He is led to water by the song of a canyon wren An extra note m the wren's song tells the man that the bird knows of his suffering In I’enryland." a lawyer stops within his hw tu life to refill t on how he once met a biologist at a fugged-in airport in Greenland. The biologist told a bauntingly incotnpiele story about finding a place when’ tin- spirits of animals go while waiting to he relxim The native man who vvati lies over them tells the biologist there are fewer spirits all the time, tux ause people have stopped sav mg the prayers for the animals they kill. "Homecoming** tells the story of a biologist who has forgotten the names of the plants in his own bac kvard while chasing around the world seeking v itintifit glory, lbs young daughter leads him Iwn.k home "In a i ertain way. Field Notes is about hope, that our condition is more hopeful than we Imagine,” l-opez said The idea of hope is also behind Lopez's book in progress "Toward the end of the work i was doing in An hr Dreams, I realized what 1 was up to was looking at the relationship between landscape and imagi nation How do we imagine where w e are? And how does where we are shape the wav we imagine every thing else? "Where that led me is to wonder what is the con net turn between emotion and landscape And the emotion that I am most interested in is hope." Lopez studied aeronautical engineering it tin* University of Notre Dame, but realized that what he liked about science and mathematic s were the metaphors they posed for life He then switched to literature After college he entered a Trnppis! monastery, but left to pursue ins c areer as a writer He- c ame to the University for a master of fine arts in writing, and settled far from the1 < ity along tin- McKenzie River, where the river cuts through the big Douglas fir and v im- maple on the western slope of the Cas iade Range Tin i >u glu-nil hi-- iitc. a tone list one* has been Her man Melville's Main Dirk, the classic story of Allah's quest to kill the great white whale. "It seems to me the quintessential work of Amer ican literature, because it brings together elements of the extraordinary physical landscape that so per meates everything in American life- with the big questions, like what is the relationship hot ween an individual and God." Lopez, said. Youths claim abuse from ranch (>l N Ml’LA (AH jasonlI.it ley was only 12 years old when hr arrived at 1ho () K Bovs' Ranch, i group foster hotnt’ for troubled youth Hu was initiated into thu vio lent o of the plat v Ins first night white he was taking a shower Teenagers threw n blanket over Hatley’s head, and he was hit and (nun hod while others urinated on him and threw fetes at him Hatlev said they drugged hint outside and left him naked on the roof When he told staff niemtiers about the altiti k they told hint the ram h operated under “the law of the jungle," and he would have to fend for himself. When the boys found out he had told the staff, he was bent en again, lie said. Hatley, now 2t. and 14 oth er youths from the home suc t essfulh brought a lawsuit against the home, whit h the state dosed last week The set tlement Thursday has reached to $8.5 million and could increase to more than S21 mil lion. The suit claimed sexual abuse was rampant at the O K Boys’ Ranch for troubled youth from 1985 through 1993. it said the state and the Olympia kiwanis Club, whit h operated the foster home, knew of the abuse and did nothing to stop it The settlement included S-t 175 million from the state. S t million from the Kiwanis Club of Olympia and $! 4(> mil lion from a ranch insurer. The boys sought nearly $12 5 million from two addi tional insurance agencies, said )o< k Connelly, one of the attor »»\ s for the youths. The state Department of Sim ud and Health Services has launched an investigation into the !«>vs' ranch So lar, a region al administrator for the deport ment's children's division has been lin-d "It's v erv regrettable and should not have happened," said fsdlhv Sp«Ull». spukcs woman for the department. We want to make sure it nev er happens again." Staff memimrs lot older boys discipline younger residents, Hatley anil other youths said in documents filed with the case in Thurston County Superior Court " These bo\s were taught to react with violence and anger at all threatening stimuli." said Richard Kelley, one of Hatley's attorneys. "This was Lord of the Flips gone berserk ” A few times, staff members put boxing gloves on the boys, ordered a light and wagered cigarettes on the outcome, Hal les said Currently. Hatley in serving a sentem e at Thurston County Jail for s iolating probation and a no-contact order protecting a former girlfriend. Police officers aren’t wanted in Falls City FALLS CITY (API — Residents in Falls City fig ure they don't need any help fighting crime. The town of 830 people does not him- a police department or a contract with the County sheriffs office for full-time law enforcement And most residents like it that way. In the Sept. 20 elet tion, voters rejected propos als to hire a full-time city police officer or con tract with the Polk County sheriffs office. They cit ed two reasons money and a lack of crime. Both hallo! measures would have required SlHfi.000 over three years. The owner of a Shi),000 house would have paid more than $210 in extra tax es annually during that period. "Who can afford it?" resident Hazel Frink asked. "We get along fine this way." Moreover, residents said Falls City is a nice, qui et town with no serious crime issues for a full-time officer to address. "It's just a typical small town," James Yurkiovich said. "I don 't see that we have that much of a prob lem. If things got loo crazy out here. 1 think a lot of residents would take care of it themselves " l ulls City dot's have 111 1 service and the sheriffs department does respond to calls, even though it lakes deputies am where from a half an hour to two hours to do so. City officials and Polk County Sheriff Ray Steele doesn't like it "1 ( an't say that Falls City has more crime than any other place." he said. "Hut they do have crime out there and they nets! to have the ability to address that crime in a timely fashion.” Polk County does not keep statistics on crime in Falls City or the number of ( alls it responds to there Hut Steele said his deputies respond to an average of two to three calls a day from the city, ranging from burglary and domestic disputes to speeding and barking dogs There are only a few incorporated cities in Ore gon that lack a regular law enforcement service. But |erry Freshour, deputy director of the State Hoard on Public Safety Standards and Training, said the state does not keep track of which ones they are Oregon law does not require cities to have their own law enforcement services