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FEBRUARY 13-14, 2016
140th Year, No. 86
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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
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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
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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
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