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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, January 14, 2016 Oregon to issue Rancher says he didn’t let group remove fence new industrial hemp licenses this winter HARNEY COUNTY STANDOFF: DAY 11 BURNS (AP) — An Oregon rancher whose cattle graze next to the national wildlife refuge that an armed group is occupying says he didn’t give them permission to enter his property and remove part of a fence. The group protesting federal land policy tore down a stretch of government-erected fence Monday near the 0DOKHXU 1DWLRQDO :LOGOLIH Refuge. The group says the goal was to give rancher Tim Puckett access to land that had been blocked for years. But Puckett told The Oregonian on Tuesday that he wasn’t aware of the group’s plans and “they didn’t have my permission to do anything.” Puckett says one of his representatives allowed the group onto the property but didn’t let them remove the fence. He says he works ZLWK IHGHUDO RI¿FLDOV RQ land management and his employees have repaired the fence. The small group lead by Ammon Bundy is under pressure from many locals to end the occupation that began Jan. 2. The group plans a meeting Friday night with the local community to explain their actions, Bundy has said. Bundy has previously said the group would not leave until a plan was in place to turn over federal lands to local authorities. They also want the release of Dwight and Steven Hammond, father-and-son ranchers convicted of arson who returned to prison last week to serve longer sentences. Though their case set off the occupation, the Hammonds have distanced themselves from the Bundy’s group. Federal, state and local law enforcement are monitoring the occupation but have not taken action. )HGHUDORI¿FHVLQWKH%XUQV area remain closed out of security concerns. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell sent department employees a note stating “our foremost priority continues to be the safety and security of our employees so that you can continue to perform your duties and serve the American public.” Jewell said federal agencies have partnered well in the past with communities in Harney County and elsewhere in the :HVW She said “those important efforts continue — even as the situation remains extremely tense, unsettling, and frus- trating” for her employees and for residents of Harney County. Jewell said the department is working with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to “peacefully resolve this situation as quickly and safely as possible.” need tweaking by the Legislature when it meets in February. A section SALEM — The state requiring 2.5-acre hemp Department of Agricul- plots causes some growers ture expects to resume problems, as does a issuing licenses to grow requirement that the plants industrial hemp by the be directly seeded instead end of February, but some of started in greenhouse problems continue to dog pots. In addition, it’s hard to obtain seed, Eng the new crop. The state issued 11 said. Canada is the most hemp licenses in 2015 common source. Oregon State Univer- before cutting off the process in August. Nine sity has asked the federal Enforcement of the licensees planted a Drug crop and three harvested Agency for permission a product, said Lindsay to import hemp seed Eng, the department’s and conduct basic crop program manager. But research. Jay Stratton the crops of two other Noller, head of the univer- growers, one in Grants sity’s Department of Crop Pass and one in Bend, are and Soil Science, said embargoed because the he anticipates the DEA plants exceeded the THC will approve the request limit required under state and test plots could be law, Eng said. The crops planted in April. Three to will have to be destroyed ¿YH \HDUV RI H[SHULPHQWV or remediated in some would be necessary for way, she said, perhaps Oregon State to produce by using the plant stalks useful data for growers, ZLWKRXW WKH ÀRZHUV RU he said. Researchers are seeds. Industrial hemp is starting from scratch related to marijuana, but because hemp germ plasm doesn’t contain nearly the had to be destroyed in the level of THC, the chem- 1970s when the federal Substances ical compound that makes Controlled $FW FODVVL¿HG KHPS WKH pot users high. Instead, advocates say same as pot and other LQGXVWULDO KHPS ¿EHU DQG drugs, Noller said. Noller said hemp was oil can be used to make clothing, food, rope, a viable crop in the past cosmetics, plastics and and is grown around the other products. They’ve ZRUOG,QWKH86WKH¿UVW long said hemp could $PHULFDQ ÀDJ ZDV PDGH replace cotton or petro- of hemp, he said. The Legislature legal- leum in some uses. Ag researchers say ized hemp cultivation in some conventional 2009, but the law wasn’t because farmers might eventually implemented be interested in growing the U.S. Department of hemp as a rotational crop, -XVWLFH FODVVL¿HG KHPS but for now the market the same as marijuana. appears to involve small- 7KH IHGHUDO FODVVL¿FDWLRQ scale farmers who want to remains, but the Justice process hemp themselves Department has said it to make lotions or other won’t interfere with hemp production in states that products. Eng said details in have adopted a robust Oregon’s hemp law may regulatory system. By ERIC MORTENSON Capital Press Linn County plans class action for state’s forestland management sales receipts from harvests from the Oregon Forest Trust Lands contract could SALEM — Linn County be eligible join the suit. That plans to seek more than $1.4 includes schools, libraries, billion in damages in a class public safety agencies and action suit against the state other districts. The other counties that for breach of contract in management of forestland in EHQH¿W IURP WKH WUXVW DUH Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, 15 counties. Linn County special Columbia, Coos, Douglas, counsel delivered a letter Josephine, Klamath, Lane, to Gov. Kate Brown and Lincoln, Marion, Polk, Tilla- State Forester Doug Decker PRRNDQG:DVKLQJWRQ “There have been general :HGQHVGD\WRQRWLI\WKHPRI WKH FRXQW\¶V SODQ WR ¿OH WKH discussions and angst for suit after a mandatory 30-day years about the distribution formula and how counties waiting period. Up to 150 local taxing have been deprived of districts that receive timber revenue by state,” said By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau attorney John DiLorenzo, who is representing Linn County in the suit. “It’s no surprise they’re not getting as much of a return from the arrangement as they should be.” The 15 counties have contracted with the state since the 1930s to manage forestlands for the land’s “greatest permanent value.” Linn County and the state are at odds over the meaning of that term. The county claims that the term means greatest economic value allowable under state and federal regulations and that returns ought to match what a private land manager could glean off the land. The state LQ GH¿QHG WKH WHUP WR mean economic, ecological, recreational and aesthetic returns and implemented a management plan based on WKDW GH¿QLWLRQ VWDUWLQJ LQ 2000, DiLorenzo said. Linn County estimates that the 150 local districts in the 15 counties have missed out on $35 million per year in revenue in the past 15 years from the state’s management of the forestland. That number is based on forest modeling, much of which was borrowed from the Department of Forestry, DiLorenzo BRIEFLY Corrections Department will improve care for mentally ill Man charged with leaving toddler in freezing car overnight SALEM (AP) — The Oregon Department of Corrections says it will reduce isolation and improve care for inmates with serious mental illness. 2I¿FLDOVRQ:HGQHVGD\VDLGWKH\KDYHHQWHUHGLQWRDQ agreement with the Disability Rights Oregon effective this month. The agreement follows an investigation by the group into the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary, which houses adults with serious mental illness who have committed violent acts or disruptive behavior. The investigation found inmates were routinely isolated for 23 hours a day without timely access to care; mental- health related behaviors were often dealt with through unnecessary force. &RUUHFWLRQVRI¿FLDOVZLOOQRZDOORZWKHLQPDWHVPRUH out-of-cell time and will provide enhanced access to mental health services. To make the changes, the department will ask the legislature for funding. 0,/721:DVK$3²$0LOWRQPDQKDVEHHQDFFXVHG of leaving his toddler daughter in a freezing car overnight after driving her home while intoxicated. Pierce County prosecutors say Michael A. Dufour pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of criminal mistreatment, abandonment of a dependent person and possession of methamphetamine. Charging documents say Milton police received a call Saturday morning about an abandoned child. :KHQDQRI¿FHUDUULYHGKHIRXQGDFDULQWKHGULYHZD\ with the windows rolled down. Police say Dufour was standing in the home’s doorway, holding a 15-month-old girl. 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