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wolves,” which can encom-
pass all or part of a pack’s
AKWA.
When wolves kill live-
stock in AKWAs, ranchers
have a little more recourse
under Oregon law than they
did under the federal law.
Now, they’d be allowed to
kill those wolves, but only
if they satisfy two require-
ments. First, they must
have used at least one non-
lethal measure to protect
their livestock from wolves
“prior to and on the day
of the incident of depre-
dation,” according to the
law. Second, they must
have removed or neutral-
ized “reasonably acces-
sible unnatural attractants
of potential wolf-livestock
conflict,” such as bones or
carcasses, at least seven
days prior to the depreda-
tion incident.
In areas of depredating
wolves (ADWs), landowners
have the additional require-
ment of implementing at
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife/Contributed Photo
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Jan. 4, 2021, formally re-
moved the gray wolf species from the endangered species
list in the lower 48 United States. In Oregon, the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife manages wolves.
least one nonlethal measure
in the area-specific conflict
deterrence plan that is spe-
cific to the location, type
of livestock operation, time
of the year and/or period of
livestock production asso-
ciated with the depreda-
tion. That measure may, in
some cases, be the same
as the nonlethal measure
used to fulfill the AKWA
requirement.
Financial assistance for
livestock producers who’ve
lost animals to wolf con-
flicts or who wish to imple-
ment nonlethal measures
to prevent those losses
is available through the
Department of Agriculture.
For more information, visit
oregon.gov/oda.
— The Herald and News
contributed to this article
via AP StoryShare
Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber
at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
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of proceedings that Trump
had clearly lost.
The ordinarily mundane
procedure of Congress cer-
tifying a new president
always was going to be
extraordinary, with Repub-
lican supporters of Trump
vowing to protest election
results that have been cer-
tified by the states. But
even the unusual delib-
erations, which included
Pence and McConnell
defying Trump’s demands,
were quickly overtaken by
the chaos.
In a raucous, out-of-
control scene, protesters
fought past police and
breached the building,
shouting and waving
Trump and American flags
as they marched through
the halls. One person was
reported shot at the Cap-
itol, according to a person
familiar with the situation.
That person’s condition
was unknown. At least
one explosive device was
found that was detonated.
The protesters abruptly
interrupted the congres-
sional proceedings in an
eerie scene that featured
official warnings directing
people to duck under their
seats for cover and put on
gas masks after tear gas
was used in the Capitol
Rotunda.
Senators were being
evacuated. Some House
lawmakers tweeted they
were sheltering in place in
their offices.
The Pentagon said
about 1,100 District of
Columbia National Guard
members were being mobi-
lized to help support law
enforcement at the Capitol.
Pence was closely
watched as he stepped onto
the dais to preside over the
joint session in the House
chamber.
Pence had a largely cer-
emonial role, opening the
sealed envelopes from the
states after they are car-
ried in mahogany boxes
used for the occasion,
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and notify EMS and the ER
of the reaction. We trans-
port to the ER as quickly as
possible.”
It’s not yet known which
ingredient in the vaccine
caused the reaction.
Neither Hernandez nor
Pace knew for sure if the
individual would opt out
of the second inoculation
shot, though Pace believed
the individual would elect
not to take the follow-up
dose. The Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Preven-
tion strongly recommend an
individual who has a reac-
tion not take the second
dose, and Hernandez said
OHA echoes that view.
“OHA is aligned with
CDC recommendations
that if a person has had an
immediate allergic reac-
tion — even if it was not
severe — to any ingredient
in a COVID-19 vaccine,
they should not get either
of the currently available
COVID-19 vaccines,” Her-
nandez said.
The reaction is the first
such reported by the OHA,
and appears to be the first
known COVID-19 vaccine
reaction in Oregon out of
more than 50,000 admin-
istered doses. Hernandez,
though, said adverse events
— like a reaction — are
not reported to the health
authority, and instead
are reported to Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting
System. OHA learned of
this individual’s reaction
because of its tie to Wal-
lowa County as its local
public health authority.
“They are generally
reported to the Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting
Ashley Sullivan/Contributed Photo
Enterprise Mayor-elect Ashley Sullivan receives a first
dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. “I am proud to
be doing my part to help stop the spread of COVID-19,”
she said. A hospital worker in Wallowa County suffered
an adverse reaction to the vaccine Dec. 31, 2020, but has
recovered.
System (VAERS), which
means to the federal gov-
ernment for aggregation
across the country,” Her-
nandez said of adverse reac-
tions. “We became aware
of this particular severe
reaction in our role as local
public health authority for
Wallowa County.”
The VAERS system
online shows reactions
to a range of vaccines —
including COVID vaccines
— through Dec. 24.
Vaccine update in
Wallowa County
To date, all 100 doses
from the initial shipment
of the Moderna vaccine to
Wallowa County have been
administered, Pace said.
Wallowa County last week
received its second ship-
ment of 100 doses, Pace
said, and also received an
additional 200 doses for
the second round of shots
to complete the inocu-
lation process for those
individuals.
The county had a brief
uptick in COVID-19 cases
over the weekend, with
OHA reported one case
each Friday and Saturday,
and two cases Sunday.
There were no new cases on
Monday, putting the county
total at 80.
Julio Cortez/AP Photo
President Donald Trump supporters try to break through
a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol
in Washington. As Congress prepared to affirm Pres-
ident-elect Joe Biden’s victory, thousands of people
gathered to show their support for Trump and his claims
of election fraud.
Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
U.S. Capitol Police hold protesters at gunpoint near the
House Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday,
Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
and reading the results
aloud. But he was under
growing pressure from
Trump to overturn the will
of the voters and tip the
results in the president’s
favor, despite having no
legal power to affect the
outcome.
“Do it Mike, this is a
time for extreme courage!”
Trump tweeted Jan. 6.
But Pence, in a state-
ment shortly before pre-
siding, defied Trump,
saying he could not claim
“unilateral authority” to
reject the electoral votes
that make Biden president.
Despite Trump’s
repeated claims of voter
fraud, election officials and
his own former attorney
general have said there
were no problems on a
scale that would change
the outcome. All the states
have certified their results
as fair and accurate, by
Republican and Demo-
cratic officials alike.
Arizona was the first of
several states facing objec-
tions from the Republi-
cans as Congress took an
alphabetical reading of the
election results. Then the
chaos erupted.
— Associated Press
writers Andrew Taylor, Jill
Colvin and Kevin Freking
in Washington and Bill
Barrow in Atlanta contrib-
uted to this report.
Oregon lawmakers appalled by U.S. Capitol violence
By GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
WASHINGTON — Ore-
gon’s congressional dele-
gation found themselves
trapped by protestors who
stormed the Capitol in pro-
test of the Electoral College
vote to verify the election of
Joe Biden as President.
Pro-trump protestors
broke into the main part of
the Capitol, forcing sena-
tors and House members to
lock themselves inside the
chambers.
“Lock the doors, lock the
doors,” Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, shouted.
In the House, one door
was barricaded as well as
locked. Protestors later
were able to break in,
trashing the chambers as
well as briefly occupying
offices, before officers with
tear gas drove them out.
When he was finally in
a shelter-in-place position
with security, Wyden said
the violence that led to at
least one death was the fault
of the resident of the White
House at the other end of
Pennsylvania Avenue.
“What’s happening
today in our nation’s Cap-
itol is a direct assault on
democracy, a riot by insur-
rectionists that caps off four
years of Donald Trump fan-
ning the flames of fanat-
icism,” Wyden said in a
statement. “Every Repub-
lican lawmaker who sup-
ported his efforts to over-
turn a legitimate election
shares responsibility for the
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democracy.”
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Or-
egon, had started live-
tweeting the events in Con-
gress, writing “Stop the
Coup!”
“GOP Senators just offi-
cially objected to counting
the votes in a state Trump
lost with one goal: keeping
Trump in power despite
his election loss,” Merkley
wrote. “This is a direct
assault on our We the
People Constitution.’
The tweet string went
silent as protestors made
their way up the stairs and
into the Capitol shortly after
the beginning of the debates
in the House and Senate.
He later held a press con-
ference on the phone from
a “secure” room he and
others had been moved to at
an undisclosed location.
Merkley also said Trump
and his supporters pushing
the objections in Con-
gress were responsible for
inciting a riot that put all
the lawmakers, staff and
law enforcement in danger.
“That’s what we heard
on the floor today — we
should listen to the mob.
And that’s why we should
stop the election of Joe
Biden,” Merkley said. “It
should never have come to
this,” he said.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, who was sworn in as
the new representative of
Oregon’s 2nd Congressional
District just days earlier,
had joined last month with
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answer to the question of
whether he would join in
the objections.
Bentz was not on the
floor when protestors broke
into the House chamber.
House members rotated
to the floor because of
COVID-19 distancing
protocols.
Bentz said the objec-
tions to the Electoral Col-
lege votes were going on
“according to the rules” and
that those backing the effort
should have let it proceed.
“There’s no reason to
be breaking in and putting
people in fear,” Bentz said.
Oregon’s four other
House members are Dem-
ocrats who supported the
Electoral College result in
Biden’s favor.
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fellow Republican represen-
tative-elects in a statement
to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., calling for
an investigation into the
2020 presidential election.
“I have joined many of
my colleagues in asking
for a congressional inves-
tigation and review into
what has happened in states
where election irregularities
have been observed,” the
statement said.
A commission or some
other investigation into the
election that would delay
the Electoral College vote
had been put forward by
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and
other leaders of the move to
object to the official count.
Bentz has repeatedly
declined to give a yes or no
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