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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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ical compound that makes Controlled
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pot users high.
Instead, advocates say same as pot and other
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oil can be used to make
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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
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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
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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
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mean economic, ecological,
recreational and aesthetic
returns and implemented a
management plan based on
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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with the windows rolled down. Police say Dufour was
standing in the home’s doorway, holding a 15-month-old girl.
Police say she was naked, red and lethargic. Hospital staff
said she had frostbitten hands and feet and was hypothermic.
Police say Dufour had meth in his pocket.
Dufour said the drug was not his and the girl’s mother was
trying to set him up.
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