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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, June 9, 2016 Rangers end search for man’s body in Yellowstone hot spring BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rangers suspended their attempts on Wednesday to recover the body of a man who wandered from a designated boardwalk and fell into an acidic hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, another in a string of incidents raising concerns over visitor behavior. “They were able to recover a few personal effects,” park spokeswoman Charissa Reid said. “There were no remains left to recover.” Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland, was with his sister and had traveled about 225 yards off the boardwalk on Tuesday when he slipped and fell into the hot spring in the Norris Geyser Basin, park oficials said. After Scott’s sister reported the fall, rangers navigated over the highly fragile crust of the geyser basin to try to recover his body. They halted the effort Wednesday “due to the extreme nature and futility of it all,” Reid said, referring to the high temperature and acidic nature of the spring. The death occurred in one of the hottest and most volatile areas of Yellow- stone. It follows high-proile incidents at the rugged park in which tourists got too close to wildlife or went off designated pathways onto unique landmarks, some- times leading to injuries. “It’s sort of dumb, if I could be so blunt, to walk off the boardwalks not knowing what you’re doing,” said Kenneth Sims, a University of Wyoming geology professor and member of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. “They’re scoflaws essentially, who look around and then head off the boardwalk,” he added. Sims said he was speaking generally and had no direct knowledge of the circumstances of Scott’s death. The basin is a popular attraction in the nation’s irst national park, which BRIEFLY Oil removed from train that derailed in Mosier MOSIER (AP) — Crews have removed the last of the crude oil from a train that derailed Friday in the tiny Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier. Greg Svelund with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the oil has been trucked to The Dalles, and crews were working Wednesday to decontaminate and move the rail cars off site. Union Paciic Railroad spokesman Justin Jacobs says that oil will eventually be taken by train to Tacoma, Washington, but that won’t happen until it meets with the community. Union Paciic said Monday it will not move any new crude oil unit trains through Mosier until a cause is determined and the community is notiied. However, some trains that carry mixed goods may be moving some crude oil through the town. By Wednesday morning, crews moved two of the 13 derailed cars off site. More than 400,000 gallons of crude oil have been trucked from the site. AP Photo/Beth Harpaz, File This September, 2009 ile photo shows the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. “There were no remains left to recover.” — Charissa Reid, park spokeswoman received a record 4.1 million visitors last year. Water temperatures there can reach 199 degrees, the boiling point for water at the park’s high elevation. At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around Yellowstone since 1890, park oficials said. Most of the deaths have been acci- dents, although at least two people had been trying to swim in a hot spring, said park historian Lee Whittlesey, author of the book “Death in Yellowstone.” Posted signs warn visitors to keep to boardwalks and trails in thermal areas, which feature boiling pools, geysers that can blast hundreds of feet into the air and toxic gases. The crust that makes up the ground in parts of Yellowstone is formed when minerals underground are dissolved by the high-temperature water, then rede- posited on or near the surface. That crust can be as “thin as a skiff of ice,” Reid said. Other recent tourist incidents at Yellowstone include a 13-year-old boy who got burned days ago when his father, who had been carrying him, slipped into a different hot spring. In May, a Canadian ilm crew was accused of leaving an established board- walk and stepping into a geothermal area where they snapped photos and took video of themselves. Also last month, another Canadian man loaded a bison calf into his SUV because he thought it was cold. The calf later had to be euthanized because it could not be reunited with its herd. State advances plan to test all schools for lead PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon health and education oficials say they will team up with school districts and child care programs statewide to help test for lead in school drinking water. The plan announced Wednesday comes on the heels of belated disclosures about lead in the drinking water of some Portland Public Schools. That disclosure has motivated other school districts around the state ‘Motor voter’ law hopes to add another 145K voters PORTLAND (AP) — With the Oregon primary in rearview and ballot results soon going into oficial state record, election oficials are now freed up to potentially handle a wave of new registra- tions under the state’s “motor voter” law after they touch base with another 145,000 Oregonians this week. On Friday, the state will begin dispersing voter-reg- istration paperwork by mail to residents who applied for or renewed a driver’s license or state ID card during 2014 and 2015 — steps that, if instead were taken this year, would’ve involuntarily added their names to the voter rolls through Oregon’s automatic voter registration system that began Jan. 1. This week’s dispersal marks the second and inal phase of the nation’s irst “motor voter” law that scooped up nearly 52,000 new voters through April and is being replicated in at least three other states. But it’s a toss-up how much phase two could boost the “motor voter” numbers. The mail-in system is largely why the motor-voter registrants had such a low turnout during the May 17 presidential primary, which was open to only Democrats and Republicans. Voters are registered by default as nonafiliated through the motor vehicle department, and they can’t pick a party until later by mail. Most people, or roughly three quarters, don’t return their forms. Thus, only 8,600 were eligible to cast a Democratic or Republican presidential primary ballot, and even fewer actually did so, making up a tiny sliver of the roughly 1 million partisan ballots that were cast last month. But party afiliation doesn’t matter in the general election, by which time the voter rolls will have grown even more and when Atkins expects to have a better idea of the law’s impact. As for those 145,000 Oregonians being targeted this week under phase two, they’ll be able to register and pick a party at the same time. Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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