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Hanford to become tourist destination Federal judge
rejects some wolf
kills in Washington
SPOKANE,
Wash.
(AP) — The nation’s most
polluted nuclear weapons
production site is now its
newest national park.
Thousands of people are
expected next year to tour
the Hanford Nuclear Reser-
vation, home of the world’s
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reactor, near Richland, about
200 miles east of Seattle in
south-central Washington.
They won’t be allowed
anywhere near the nation’s
largest collection of toxic
radioactive waste.
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attractions will be B Reactor
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reactor — along with the
ghost towns of Hanford and
White Bluffs, which were
evacuated by the govern-
ment to make room for the
Manhattan Project.
The Manhattan Project is
the name for the U.S. effort
to build an atomic bomb
during World War II.
By NICHOLAS K.
GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — A
federal judge has rejected
plans by a federal agency
to assist in the killing of
problem wolves in Wash-
ington state.
U.S. District Court
Judge Robert Bryan of
Tacoma,
Washington,
issued
a
summary
judgment last Thursday
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agency, known as Wildlife
Services.
Bryan said the agency
should have prepared a
more in-depth environ-
mental analysis of its
agreement with the state
of Washington to help kill
problem wolves.
Bryan ruled in favor
of conservation groups
that sued the agency,
concluding that an envi-
ronmental
assessment
prepared by the agency
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Wolves were hunted to
extinction in Washington at
the turn of the last century.
But they started migrating
from neighboring areas
in the early 2000s and
there are an estimated 16
wolf packs containing 68
wolves in the state, all in
eastern Washington.
Wildlife Services failed
to create a full environ-
mental impact statement
about the proposal to
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state, Bryan ruled.
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program within the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
that is responsible for
controlling the number
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coyotes and other wild
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agency didn’t have a
response on the ruling.
Environmental groups
cheered the ruling.
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In this 2008 ile photo, the control panel for Hanford nuclear reservation’s famous
B Reactor is shown in Richland, Wash. The B Reactor, the world’s irst full-sized
reactor, will be part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, the nation’s
newest national park.
Oregon ‘motor voter’ system set to launch
will also use Oregon Driver
and Motor Vehicle Services
Division data to register people
who obtained or renewed their
driver’s licenses, permits or
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last two years, agency spokes-
woman Molly Woon wrote
in an email. This provision
could add as many as 275,000
voters to the rolls, Atkins
said. However, the state will
not implement that portion of
the law until after the May
primary.
It’s less clear how many
people will opt out of voter
registration.
The DMV will only send
data to the Elections Division
for people who have demon-
strated, through documents
shared with the DMV, that
they are eligible to vote. This
means Oregon residents who
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17 years old. The Elections
Division will send mailers to
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giving them 21 days to opt out
of registration or to register
with a political party. If people
do nothing, the state will
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voters.
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automatic voter registration,
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By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon is on
track to launch its automatic
voter registration system in
January, Secretary of State
Jeanne Atkins said Monday.
Under the new law, people
who are eligible to vote will be
registered after they obtain or
renew their driver’s licenses,
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an automatic voter registration
law, and the legislation was a
top priority for Gov. Kate
Brown dating back to when
she was secretary of state.
Atkins said during a
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people outside of Oregon are
watching to see how the new
system unfolds.
“We’ll probably see the
nation paying attention,
in addition to Oregonians
paying attention,” Atkins said.
“We’ve been very pleased
with the work that’s been
done so far and our ability to
run end to end tests here in
December.”
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new system will add approx-
imately 10,000 voters to the
rolls each month starting in
January. The secretary of state
registered to vote. Instead,
the Elections Division will
send the updated addresses
to county clerks so they can
update the information of
existing registered voters.
Shamus Hannan, an appli-
cation development manager
in the Secretary of State’s
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project, said the state did not
create it from scratch. Instead,
the automatic registration
program built upon Oregon’s
existing system of data
sharing between the DMV
and the Elections Division
which the state uses for func-
tions including online voter
registration. The program
is expected to cost approxi-
mately $753,000 during the
current two-year budget,
according to the Legislative
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It’s “a variation on a
theme, rather than something
completely new for us,”
Hannan said. “Currently,
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application with our partners
from all the other agencies,
including the counties.”
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not contact the person in the
future when he or she renews
a drivers license or updates an
address at the DMV. The other
voter registration options will
still be available, including
registering to vote online and
at the DMV.
“How many people will
say ‘no thank you’ is a little bit
of an unknown,” Atkins said.
People exempt from
the automatic registration
process
include
certain
law enforcement and other
individuals who have signed
up through the state to keep
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for personal safety reasons,
according to the state’s new
voter registration manual.
The law goes into effect
Jan. 1, when the DMV will
be closed for the holiday. As
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affected by the law will those
who obtain driver’s licenses
or update their addresses Jan.
4. These people will begin
to receive mailers from the
state sometime after Jan. 5,
when state elections workers
will begin to send out the
materials.
The new law also affects
people who update their
addresses through the DMV,
although they will not be
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“It is long past time
that we base wildlife
management decisions on
the best available science,
not on antiquated, anti-
wolf rhetoric and myth,”
said Bethany Cotton of
WildEarth Guardians.
Environmental groups
contend the environmental
assessment
failed
to
address the full ecological
impacts of killing wolves
in Washington, including
impacts on wolves in
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been involved in the killing
of wolves in Washington
in the past.
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life Services snipers shot
from a helicopter and
killed the Huckleberry
wolf pack’s alpha female.
The death of that pack’s
breeding female threat-
ened the future of the
entire pack, environmental
groups contended.
Wildlife Services also
advised the Washington
Department of Fish and
Wildlife in the 2012
destruction of the Wedge
wolf pack in Eastern
Washington. In that case,
the state agency killed
seven wolves after they
preyed on livestock.
At the federal level,
the state is split into two
separate wolf populations.
In the eastern third of
the state, wolves are
considered part of the
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population,
which was removed from
the endangered list in
2011. But in the western
two-thirds of the state,
wolves are considered part
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smaller and still listed as
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