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EUGENE (AP) — Jail time
isn’t likely if convictions are
handed down for the four boys
charged with setting a ¿re that
destroyed a historic Oregon
ballpark.
Police say the kids were
playing with ¿re when the
Àames got out of control. They
Àed and police were tipped off
July 1 by the family of a boy
who left before the ¿re started,
the Eugene Register-Guard
reported.
An arson conviction won’t
mean youth prison for the
10-year-old boy who’s been
charged.
The three 12-year-olds
are under the jurisdiction of
the Oregon Youth Authority.
Agency spokesman Jason Davis
says juvenile offenders younger
than 15 years old are a very
small percentage of children
incarcerated in state-run facili-
ties.
A court order is keeping the
names of the boys and their
parents from being released.
Davis says releasing that
information could impact the
ongoing investigation.
Youth Authority spokes-
woman Ann Snyder says
develop bacon-
Àavored seaweed
Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP
A firefighter takes a photo of the smoldering remains of Civic Stadium, June 30, in Eugene.
probation is likely if the judge in
the case establishes jurisdiction,
which would essentially mean
a guilty verdict had crime been
committed by adults.
Eugene defense attorney
Adam Shelton says youth court
is geared more toward rehabili-
tating offenders.
“It’s hard to tell what will
happen in this case,” Shelton
said.
The case is scheduled for a
fact-¿nding hearing Sept. 1 in
juvenile court.
Eugene attorney Derek
Liquor commission working on legal pot rules
many of whom said they
feared legalization could
cause Oregon’s patchwork
of tie-dyed family operators
and enterprising agribusiness
start-ups to be replaced with
three or four major players.
Unlike
Washington,
where no more than 2 million
square feet (roughly 35
football ¿elds) can be under
marijuana cultivation at one
time, Oregon has set no land
limit for growers, raising
fears of monolithic weed
suppliers.
Jesse Peters, who heads
Eco Firma Farms and has
given testimony on behalf
of the Oregon Cannabis
Growers PAC, said it didn’t
matter what the OLCC did
— nothing was going to halt
consolidation.
“It’s not going to stop.
That’s like shooting a BB
gun at a freight train,” he said
during the meeting.
But
OLCC
staffers
seemed particularly receptive
to growers’ proposal that
licensing fees be progres-
sive, based either on size or
revenue of the operation.
By ZANE SPARLING
Capital Bureau
Oregon
marijuana
growers will likely see sliding
scale costs for licenses and
fees depending on the size
of their operation, and are
expected to give up about 2
percent of their annual crop
for state-mandated potency
and pesticide testing.
Those, at least, were
the working conclusions
of Oregon Liquor Control
Commission staffers after
a three-hour meeting of the
Recreational
Marijuana
Rules Technical Committee
adjourned
Wednesday.
The committee is one of
eight set up by the OLCC
to gather input from major
stakeholders as it crafts the
language that will guide
recreational marijuana use
and cultivation.
The OLCC is slated to
provide a set of temporary
rules Jan. 4 the ¿nal regula-
tions are due in July of 2016.
The meeting gathered
indoor, outdoor, greenhouse
and organic pot growers,
Johnson helped start the Eugene
Civic Alliance, a nonpro¿t
group that recently bought the
stadium.
Johnson couldn’t be reached
for comment, but has said the
alliance had insured the grand-
stand for $3 million.
Oregon timber harvest
again tops 4B board feet
“I like that idea,” OLCC
Director Steve Marks said
in an interview after the
meeting.
Marks said that state law
also allows the commission
to award licenses based on
considerations of merit,
which could include every-
thing from prior participation
in Oregon’s medical mari-
juana program, to worker
treatment and energy and
water conservation.
Another contentious topic
for committee members
was marijuana testing for
THC levels and pesticides.
While most of the growers
see testing as an inevita-
bility — and accepted that
science would dictate the
size of batch samples taken
by labs — they hotly debated
whether disclosure of pesti-
cide use was necessary.
“I’ve seen people in the
past spray Raid on their
plants,” Peters said. “If
they’re doing it with integ-
rity, you’re only treating
plants (with pesticides) every
90 days, and you’re never
treating a Àowering plant.”
PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s
timber harvest decreased slightly last
year, ending a four-year run of gains
that began after the Great Recession,
the state Department of Forestry said
Wednesday.
The 4.13 billion board feet
harvested in 2014 represents a 1.7
percent decline from the year before.
It was, however, the second consecu-
tive year of more than 4 billion board
feet, a total Oregon had not seen since
2006.
The state hit a recession low of
2.7 billion board feet in 2009. It takes
10,000 board feet to build a roughly
1,800-square-foot house.
The Forestry Department said in
its annual harvest report it doesn’t
expect a big change in 2015. Brandon
Kaetzel, a top economist at the
department, said several issues will
likely keep the harvest from rising,
including reduced port access, a chal-
lenging export market and housing
starts not reaching the levels some
expected.
Sixty percent of Oregon’s forest
land is federal. Industrial and fami-
ly-owned lands comprise another
34 percent and the rest is divided
between entities such as the state,
counties and tribes.
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PORTLAND (AP) — What grows
quickly, is packed with protein, has twice
the nutritional value of kale and tastes like
bacon?
The answer, according to scientists at
Oregon State University, is a new strain of
seaweed they recently patented.
Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that
grows wild along the Paci¿c and Atlantic
coastlines. It’s harvested and commonly used
by people in dried form as a cooking ingre-
dient or nutritional supplement.
But OSU researchers say the variety
they’ve developed can be farmed and eaten
fresh, with the potential for a new industry for
Oregon.
Scientists have been trying to develop a
new strain of the seaweed for more than 15
years. Their original goal was to create a
super food for commercially grown abalone,
a mollusk prized in Asia.
The strain of dulse they came up with,
which looks like translucent red lettuce, is a
great source of minerals, vitamins and anti-
oxidants, not to mention protein. The abalone
grew exceedingly quickly when fed the dulse
and an abalone operation in Hawaii is now
using the seaweed on a commercial scale.
But after a product development team at
OSU’s Food Innovation Center created new
foods with the dulse, researchers began to
think humans might bene¿t a lot more.
Among the most promising foods created
were a dulse-based rice cracker and salad
dressing. And bacon-tasting strips, which are
fried like regular bacon to bring out the Àavor.
The research team received a grant from
the Oregon Department of Agriculture to
explore dulse as a ³specialty crop´ — the ¿rst
time seaweed had made the list, of¿cials said.
The team brought on a culinary research chef
to further re¿ne recipes and products.
Several Portland-area chefs are now
testing the sea “vegetable” in its raw or
cooked form. And MBA students at OSU are
preparing a marketing plan for a new line of
dulse-based specialty foods and exploring the
potential for a new aquaculture industry.
There are no commercial operations
that grow dulse for human consumption in
the U.S. and chefs say fresh, high-quality
seaweed is hard to come by.
“The dulse grows using a water recircu-
lation system,” said OSU researcher Chris
Langdon, who developed the strain. “Theo-
retically, you could create an industry in
eastern Oregon almost as easily as you could
along the coast with a bit of supplementation.
You just need a modest amount of seawater
and some sunshine.”
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