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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017
Rainbow Family members start gathering in Oregon
Some ranchers
unhappy with
hippie campers
Far left: Members of the
Rainbow Family of Living
Light gather under a tarp
at their campsite in Mount
Tabor, Vt., last summer.
Concern is growing in a
conservative, remote cor-
ner of Oregon as people
start arriving in a national
forest for this year’s Rain-
bow Family of Living Light
annual gathering, a count-
er-culture get-together ex-
pected to draw thousands.
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Concern is
growing in a conservative,
remote corner of Oregon
as people start arriving in a
national forest for a Rainbow
Family of Living Light annual
gathering, a counter-culture
get-together expected to draw
thousands.
Officials with the Mal-
heur National Forest said last
week that around 600 Rain-
bow Family members are
already camped at a gather-
ing site near Flagtail Meadow
and that between 10,000 and
30,000 are likely arriving by
July 4, when the multiday
event peaks with a prayer for
world peace.
People with small children,
those with disabilities and
senior citizens were among
those who wrote to the event’s
Facebook page, discussing
the site near the town of John
Day in Eastern Oregon, acces-
sibility and bus routes.
‘People are
furious over
this. Not
because it’s
a friggin’
bunch of
hippies. It’s
the different
standards.’
Left: Members of the Rain-
bow Family of Living Light
gather under a tarp at their
campsite in Mount Tabor,
Vt., last summer.
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Some
commentators
expressed concern about
keeping the place hygienic.
“Bury your s--t, bury your
dog’s s--t, bury your baby’s
s--t,” one person wrote.
Another asked what the
“pants policy” is, and got doz-
ens of responses, including
that they’re optional.
The U.S. Forest Service
said its resource specialists
are making sure that kitchens,
peace circles, and latrines are
located appropriately.
Ahead of last year’s event
in Vermont in the Green
Mountain National Forest,
there was a lot of concern
about whether the Rainbows
would pick up after them-
selves once the gathering was
over. They carved campsites
out of the wilderness, but once
the bulk of the Rainbows left,
a number stay behind, in some
cases for weeks, to clean up.
An Indian tribe, the Burns
Paiute, said the Oregon site is
within its ancestral territory,
and asked for attendees to be
respectful.
“This land is sacred to us,
and we hope they respect it,”
Burns Paiute Tribal Chairman
Joe DeLaRosa said in a state-
ment Thursday.
In a welcoming note to
attendees, the tribe noted that
the armed occupation of the
Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge, in the winter of 2016
by those trying to put federal
lands into the hands of locals,
had occurred on land sacred to
the tribe.
“We are still recovering
from last year’s desecration,”
the tribe said.
The Forest Service said the
group refused to sign a spe-
cial use permit, required for
groups of more than 75. The
group has noted that it claims
no leader, and consequently
there is no one to sign such
permits. The Forest Service
said it will require operat-
ing conditions that users must
abide by.
Rancher Loren Stout, who
has a federal grazing permit
on land adjacent to the event
site, was upset, saying the
Forest Service would punish
ranchers if they ignored per-
mit requirements and tapped a
spring for drinking water like
the Rainbow Family has done.
“People are furious over
this,” Stout told the Blue
Mountain Eagle, a weekly
newspaper in John Day. “Not
because it’s a friggin’ bunch
of hippies. It’s the different
standards.”
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