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WEEKEND EDITION NEW SITES PROPOSED FOR LOCAL DAWGS HAND BUCKS DOG PARKS FIRST LEAGUE LOSS HISTORY OF OUR FEDERAL LANDS PENDLETON/3A BASKETBALL/1B LIFESTYLES/1C FEBRUARY 13-14, 2016 140th Year, No. 86 $1.50 WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD ċĆēĈčƭĆēČĊ By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian After 41 days, 25 indiFtments and one man NiOOed, the armed oFFupation of a federaO wiOdOife refuge near Burns has Fome to an end. The underOying issues of rangeOand management, however, won’t be going away anytime soon. John O’Keeffe, president of the Oregon CattOemen’s AssoFiation, said things are far from perfeFt between ranFhers aFross the West, the Bureau of /and 0anagement and U.6. Forest 6erviFe. Environ- mentaO reguOations are maNing it harder to get rangeOand improve- ment proMeFts done TuiFNOy. WiOd- ¿ res are getting bigger and hotter, sForFhing hundreds of thousands of aFres. Noxious weeds Fontinue to spread, FhoNing out native vegetation for grazing. Yet O’Keeffe was TuiFN to Fondemn the miOitants who Fame mostOy from out of state to the 0aOheur NationaO WiOdOife Refuge, where they protested the sentenFes of +arney County ranFhers Dwight and 6teven +ammond and FaOOed for federaO Oand to be returned to private Fitizens. “What happened in Burns is outsiders Foming in and oFFu- pying a refuge iOOegaOOy,” O’Keeffe said. “We have a Oot of issues to AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Members of the group that occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters stand guard Jan. 4 near Burns. sort out with the agenFies, but we absoOuteOy intend to do it through OegaO FhanneOs.” O’Keeffe runs FattOe on about 5,000 aFres of pubOiF Oand near the tiny Fommunity of AdeO in isoOated south-FentraO Oregon ² an average size famiOy ranFh, he says. +is operation inFOudes grazing permits with both the B/0 and Fremont-Winema NationaO Forest. “Yelling at the BLM is like yelling at a i reman when your house is on i re. They can’t make on-the-ground annual changes, because it opens them up to challenges and litigation.” — Andy Bentz, former Malheur County sheriff RanFhers understand the need to support muOtipOe uses on pubOiF Oand, suFh as reFreation and wiOd- Oife habitat, O’Keeffe said. But he worries further restriFtions might beFome too muFh to taNe. “There’s no guarantees,” O’Keeffe said. “6houOd these government reguOations beFome too burdensome, ranFhers FouOd go away. That wouOd Freate a whoOe new set of probOems.” BuiOding reOationships The B/0 manages grazing permits and Oeases on roughOy 14 miOOion aFres in Oregon and Washington. That breaNs down to a totaO of 51,000 permits for the region. Of those, about 20 beOong to JaFob Ferguson. Ferguson is a rangeOand management speFiaOist for B/0 9aOe DistriFt in southeast Oregon. +is area enFompasses 850,000 aFres south of Jordan 9aOOey and east of the Owyhee River. From 0ay through OFtober, he traveOs usuaOOy onFe per weeN to visit his permittees and monitor Fonditions on the ground. “We try to see it aOO,” Ferguson said. Despite onOy being on the Mob for two years, Ferguson said he’s deveOoped good reOationships with ranFhers around the area. +e Nnows most of his permittees on a ¿ rst-name basis, and they meet reguOarOy in the ¿ eOd to review grazing pOans and FheFN forage See LAND/12A Rancher Jerry Miller, 79, delivers hay to his cattle Jan. 9 on his ranch, in Crane. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer Hantavirus diagnosed in Umatilla County Disease spread by rodents East Oregonian +antaYirus is here. The sometimes IataO rodent- borne virus has been diagnosed in a UmatiOOa County resident Ior the ¿ rst time ever. The Founty heaOth department wouOdn¶t give detaiOs about the viFtim to proteFt the person¶s privaFy, but the Fase prompted UmatiOOa County¶s 3ubOiF +eaOth OI¿ Fer Dr. Jon +it]man to issue a warning. ³+antavirus is a rare but serious disease spread by rodents,” +it]man said. ³This disease Fan IreTuentOy beFome IataO, but there are steps you Fan taNe to reduFe your exposure.” The virus OurNs in enFOosed areas suFh as barns, outbuiOdings and sheds where miFe nest. 6inFe hantavirus was ¿ rst identi¿ ed in 13, 588 Fases showed up nationaOOy, 21 oI them in Oregon. About two thirds of Fases in Oregon were FontraFted through direFt FontaFt with rodents or rodent droppings. Other Fases Fame through indireFt exposure whiOe Famping or farming. AFFording to the Center for Disease ControO and 3revention, rodents suFh as deer miFe, Fotton rats and riFe rats serve as a reser- voir for the virus. The rodents shed the virus in their urine, droppings or saOiva. +antavirus Fan be transmitted to humans when they breathe in Fontaminated air. The iOOness siFNens its human viFtims about six weeNs after expo- See VIRUS/10A VALENTINE’S DAY /ove won’t taNe Fare of itseOf By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian 3+6 grad OooNs Ior FanFer FOues By KATHY ANEY East Oregonian C.J. Cambier spends his days hanging out with ]ebra¿ sh and hungry maFrophage FeOOs. The 6tanIord UniYersity researFh sFientist uses the tropiFaO ¿ sh to study immune responses and their roOe in FanFer. 0aFrophage FeOOs are the stars oI this sFienti¿ F drama ² the good guys. The raYenous maFrophages deYour inIeFted, dead or damaged FeOOs with 3aF-0an-OiNe eI¿ FienFy. With his researFh, Cambier, 31, hopes to shed Oight on inÀ ammatory meFhanisms driYing disease. That¶s the dumbed-down e[pOanation oI what Cambier does. The IuOO desFription reTuires one to haYe a mediFaO diFtionary at the ready. ReFentOy, the 2003 3endOeton +igh 6FhooO grad- uate got notiFed Ior his worN. The Damon Runyon See CAMBIER/10A Contributed photo C.J. Cambier researches misguided immune respons- es, many of which contribute to the development of cancer. The PHS grad, who now works in a lab at Stanford University, recently won a prestigious fel- lowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. We go to doFtors for FheFNups and meFhaniFs for tuneups, but we sOaFN on prevention when it Fomes to reOationships. /iFensed marriage and famiOy therapist CaroOyn *arrett of 3endOeton suggested Oove aOso reTuires tuneups. ³Be proaF- tive in your reOa- tionship,” she said. ³CheFN up on your FoupOes re O ationship before you need Garrett to be reaFtive.” *arrett has been in praFtiFe aOmost 20 years. 6he said expeFta- tions Fhange, and FoupOes need to taON about those expeFtations they may have previousOy agreed on. 6he said there are tooOs to FheFN on your reOationship, suFh as CoupOeFheFNup.Fom, where you sign up and pay a nominaO fee to taNe an assessment to better understand your reOationship. 6he aOso said there are basiF steps to Neep Oove going. First off, *arrett said, is to Oearn from your mistaNes so you don’t repeat them. And when FommuniFation is dif¿ FuOt or hits a roadbOoFN, she said, peopOe in reOationships Fan rate their OeveOs See LOVE/10A
