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BRIEFLY
paper from obtaining her emails in
the wake of an inluence-peddling
scandal that lead to Gov. John
Kitzhaber’s resignation.
The Oregonian reports Marion
County Judge Tracy Prall notiied
attorneys about her decision
Wednesday. It came nearly 18
months after the paper irst requested
Hayes’ emails.
Federal agents are still
investigating the former governor.
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum ordered Hayes to turn
over messages from her private
account that concerned public
business. Hayes refused and iled a
lawsuit in February 2015 to block the
email release.
She contended she wasn’t a public
oficial and not subject to the Oregon
Public Records Law. Judge Prall
ruled in news organization’s favor
in August. A different judge then
reviewed more than 72,000 emails
and decided nearly two-thirds of the
messages should be released.
Report: Portland chief
smelled of alcohol after
shooting
PORTLAND (AP) — Documents
say the Portland police chief who
was put on leave after revelations
he may have lied about accidentally
shooting a friend in the back during
a hunting trip smelled of alcohol
during an interview afterward.
The Oregonian reported that a
sheriff’s deputy said in an Oregon
Fish & Wildlife report that Larry
O’Dea also seemed nervous and had
bloodshot eyes after the April 21
shooting.
O’Dea told deputies at the scene
that the victim accidentally shot
himself. Four days later, he told the
mayor that he accidentally shot his
friend with a .22-caliber rile.
The chief stepped aside this week
after multiple agencies launched
investigations. They began a month
after the shooting, when oficials
discovered O’Dea was involved.
Portland police said O’Dea wasn’t
available for comment.
Roger Phillips/Idaho Statesman via AP
In this Sept. 2014, ile photo, a isherman stands on his boat looking across the Snake River
near Homedale, Idaho.
Feds reject request to delist
Snake River fall chinook
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The
irst attempt to delist one of the 13
species of Columbia Basin salmon
and steelhead protected under the
Endangered Species Act has been
denied by federal authorities.
The decision made public
Thursday by National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
Fisheries cites concerns Snake
River fall chinook wouldn’t
remain viable without continued
protections.
Scott Rumsey, NOAA’s branch
chief for the protected resources
division, said the agency wasn’t
surprised that the irst petition
to delist came for what he called
one of the healthiest of the listed
stocks in the basin.
“We’re encouraged that we’re
getting close, but in this deter-
mination we’re saying we’re not
quite there yet,” he said.
An Alaska commercial ishing
advocacy group called Chinook
Futures Coalition requested the
delisting in January 2015.
The group is concerned
that protected Snake River fall
chinook limit quotas of king
salmon because of incidental
catching of the protected Snake
River ish that travel to waters off
Alaska. The group was hoping
to get the species delisted ahead
of Paciic Salmon Treaty nego-
tiations between the U.S. and
Canada. The current treaty runs
through 2018.
The coalition, in a statement
emailed to The Associated Press,
said it was disappointed in the
decision and believes that the
best available science supports a
decision to delist.
“The Coalition continues
to be committed to promoting
sustainable, responsibly-managed
salmon isheries in southeast
Alaska and will be discussing how
to proceed in coming weeks,” the
group said.
Researchers estimate 500,000
Snake River fall chinook returned
in the late 1800s but that fell to
350 by 1992 when the salmon
were listed as threatened.
Biologists say the species is
limited to about 20 percent of
its former range, spawning in a
100-mile section of the Snake
River above Lower Granite Dam
up to the Hells Canyon Complex
of dams in the Snake River
Canyon. The ish also spawn in
the Clearwater River.
Oficials say the ive-year
average of ish spawning for
2010 to 2014 is about 38,000 ish,
with about 70 percent of those of
hatchery origin.
Chinook Futures Coalition in
its delisting petition contended
NOAA needed to count the
hatchery ish. But NOAA rejected
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SUNDAY
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breezy
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MONDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Beautiful with
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June 4
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Burns
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Heppner
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today; a couple of showers across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today. Partly cloudy tonight. Intervals of
clouds and sun tomorrow.
Western Washington: Rather cloudy today
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Eastern Washington: Some sun today.
A thunderstorm in spots in the north; a
shower in the mountains.
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has ordered former Oregon irst
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Oregonian $127,760 to cover the
news organization’s legal costs in her
failed public records lawsuit.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s
U.S. senators have proposed a bill
that would prevent mining on about
340,000 acres of public land in the
Methow Valley.
The legislation introduced
Wednesday would withdraw U.S.
Forest Service land in northcentral
Washington from potential mining
leases.
Sens. Patty Murray and Maria
Cantwell said in statements that
the bill is needed to protect water,
salmon and other natural resources in
the region.
The Seattle Times says that in
2014 Blue River Resources iled a
permit for exploratory drilling on
Flagg Mountain to assess copper
deposits. The Vancouver, British
Columbia-based company wants
to use existing roads to access 14
locations to drill test borings to
determine the possible value of its
copper mining claim.
A Forest Service district ranger
says the company’s proposal
for exploratory drilling could be
approved as soon as Aug. 1.
Company oficials could not be
reached Wednesday for comment on
the legislation.
PORTLAND (AP) — The city
of Portland has released a map
and database showing about 1,800
unreinforced masonry buildings
that may be vulnerable to shaking
during an earthquake if they are not
structurally retroitted.
These buildings were generally
constructed before the 1960s
using brick with little to no steel
reinforcement in the walls.
The building data was collected
as part of a Portland seismic retroit
project, that is being led by the
Portland Bureau of Development
Services, the Portland Bureau of
Emergency Management and the
Portland Development Commission.
They are working with community
members to reduce the risk posed by
these buildings.
Since the last time Portland
collected data about unreinforced
masonry buildings, about 13 percent
of those structures were fully or
partially upgraded and another 8
percent were demolished.
that argument, saying that federal
oficials must be certain a naturally
producing population of chinook
will remain viable without human
intervention.
Federal oficials in a recovery
plan released last November
suggested returning Snake River
fall chinook above the Hells
Canyon Complex of dams to have
a second population of spawning
salmon as a way to achieve delis-
ting.
The building of the dams in the
late 1950s and 1960s cut off 367
river miles to salmon.
Idaho Power operates the
Hells Canyon Complex, one of
the company’s main sources of
power generation for southern
Idaho. The company in 1991
started controlling lows at the
dams to create stable spawning
conditions for salmon as well as
better egg incubation and rearing
conditions, federal oficials say.
The two main problems
with opening spawning habitat
upstream is getting ish past the
dams and habitat degradation
above the dams.
That means, currently, survival
of the ish is dependent on the
single population below the
Hells Canyon Complex. That’s a
concern for biologists, Rumsey
said, because “all the eggs are in
one basket.”
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dot the interior West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in Pecos, Texas
Low 21° in Antero Reservoir, Colo.
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