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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A FBI informant, Ryan Bundy’s wife and David Fry’s psychologist testify By CONRAD WILSON and BRYAN M. VANCE Oregon Public Broadcasting Jurors in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge trial heard testimony Tuesday from an FBI infor- mant, a psychologist with knowledge of David Fry’s mental health and a husband question his wife under oath. Terri Linnell said she served as an FBI informant during the occupation. She testiied for the defense that she was recruited by the agency to visit the refuge and was in Harney County from Jan. 12-23. Linnell described her efforts to prevent the bribery of politi- cians and her role in protests in support of protecting the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as reasons for her recruitment. During her time at the refuge, FBI agents often asked her about occupiers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, Blaine Cooper, Joseph O’Shaughnessy, Ryan Payne, Jon Ritzheimer and Pete Santilli. “I was asked about those people every time I called,” Linnell said under cross examination by prosecutors. She said she continued to ile reports even after she left the refuge on Jan. 26, outlining what she described as the occupants’ security shifts. Linnell testiied that she never witnessed any illegal activity during her time at the refuge, and that drugs and alcohol were not allowed. She also testiied that she never witnessed defendants David Fry, Shawna Cox or Neil Wampler in possession of irearms. During her time at the refuge, Linnell worked as a cook. “Everyone was told to pitch in,” she said. She also described Cox’s role as more of an admin- istrative assistant to the occupation leadership than active participant. “I wouldn’t call her one of the leaders,” Linnell said. During cross exam- ination, Assistant U.S. Secretary of state candidates lay out positions Avakian, Richardson joined by third-party candidates in forum By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau Attorney Geoffrey Barrow asked Linnell about a Jan. 14 report in which she apparently told the FBI that there was talk among the occupiers of taking over another federal building in Burns, Oregon. Linnell testiied that she reviewed the reports that she had iled with the FBI but had no recollection of the report Barrow mentioned. Barrow also asked about a Jan. 19 report Linnell made in which she described the fact that there were children at the refuge and that she was uncomfortable with that. In that report, she also said that people involved in the sovereign citizen move- ment were also at the refuge and that it was causing some concern. Jurors witnessed a unusual courtroom moment Tuesday when defendant Ryan Bundy, who is repre- senting himself, questioned his wife, Angie Bundy. “Missing you,” she said in response to his opening line of questioning. She described her husband as a wonderful husband and father. “I could cite things all day long that he does for other people,” she testiied. Angie Bundy said Ryan Bundy left their home in Nevada for Harney County without a coat or warm clothes. “You told me you’d be home Monday at the latest,” she told him. Finally, jurors also heard Michelle Guyton, a clinical psychologist who testiied about defendant David Fry’s mental health problems. Fry was the last occupier to surrender, and thousands of people listened to his inal emotionally charged standoff with federal agents. Guyton testiied that she had diagnosed Fry with schizotypal personality disorder. She described his condition as being typiied by erratic behavior, difi- culty forming long-term friendships and an overall feeling of anxiety and lack of trust. ALOHA — In a race that’s become largely a heated back-and-forth between the Democrat and Republican candidates, the frontrunners in the race for secretary of state were joined Monday by two third-party candidates at a meeting hosted by the Washington County Public Affairs Forum. Democrat Brad Avakian, the state’s labor commis- sioner, and Republican Dennis Richardson, a former state legislator, are competing to be the state’s top auditor and elections oficer, as are Paciic Green Party Candi- date Alan Zundel, of Eugene, and Libertarian candidate Sharon Durbin, a former Forest Grove Planning Commissioner. In an opening statement, Avakian said that, as labor commissioner, a position he has held since 2008, he had turned “values into action,” laying out plans to close the wage disparity between men and women and to promote workforce development Avakian Richardson through modern shop classes for high schoolers. As secretary of state, Avakian said, he’d promote same-day voter registration, inspire Oregonians to partici- pate in elections, “break down barriers” for potential voters to register and vote, and cause Oregon to be a “global leader in the ight against climate change” through the secretary of state’s position on the State Land Board. The board oversees lands in the state’s ownership that are managed for the inancial beneit of Oregon’s public schools through the Common School Fund. Dennis Richardson, the Republican, touted his willingness to work across the aisle in the legislature in 2011, when he was selected to be co-chair of the Ways and Means Committee. “It’s already here.” The authors of the study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, say it’s the irst to try to quantify how much human-caused climate change has increased wildires in Western forests. Some other factors that had to be considered as contributing to the increase, the report said, included a legacy of ire suppression in the West, natural climate variability, and human settlement. The study found that longer and hotter dry spells are causing Western forests to dry out and become more susceptible to wildires. Speciically, researchers said, spring and summer temperatures have warmed by 2 to 2.5 degrees since 1950. Researchers said that warming accounts for 55 percent of what they call “fuel aridity” from 1979 to BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new study of Western forest ires conirms what is already apparent — wildire seasons are getting longer and more destructive. But researchers with the University of Idaho and Columbia University also say humans are to blame. The study made public Monday says human-caused global warming contributed an additional 16,000 square miles of burned forests from 1984 to 2015. Researchers say the 16,000 square miles repre- sent half of the forest areas that burned over the last three decades. “We’re no longer waiting for human-caused climate change to leave its inger- print on wildire across the western U.S.,” John Abatzo- glou, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of geography at the University of Idaho, said in a statement. 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Hi 71 86 83 56 76 38 54 70 70 65 65 Lo 50 78 65 49 51 35 48 62 49 54 58 W s pc s pc pc c sh c s sh sh (in mph) Today Thursday Boardman Pendleton NE 3-6 N 4-8 ENE 8-15 SSE 10-20 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today; a little rain across the north during the afternoon. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today; warmer in central parts and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Times of sun and clouds today; rain arriving at the coast late in the afternoon. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. A couple of showers tonight. Periods of rain tomorrow. Cascades: Partly sunny today; warmer. Cloudy tonight with rain spreading southward. Northern California: Low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast today; partly sunny elsewhere. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. 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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. WINDS Medford 76/54 2015. The study attributed the other 45 percent to natural climate variations. The study found that since 2000 there’s been a 75 percent increase in forested lands with elevated aridity and nine more days each year with dry forests especially susceptible to wildires. “Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a driver of increased forest ire activity,” the report says. Park Williams of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and a co-au- thor of the study, said the report provides a better understanding of the effects human-caused global warming has on Western forests. REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY “We worked together, in a very dificult time, and passed the education budget irst, instead of making it a political football at the very end of the session,” Rich- ardson said. Richardson, a 2014 guber- natorial candidate who lost to John Kitzhaber, a fourth- term Democrat who later resigned after allegations of inluence-peddling surfaced, also claimed that he brought forward evidence of corrup- tion. “I brought forward the corruption I felt was rampant in the governor’s ofice,” Richardson said. “It ulti- mately led to investigations that led to (Kitzhaber’s) resig- nation after the election.” He criticized the state for not auditing the failed health insurance exchange, Cover Oregon, and the Columbia River Crossing, the never-re- alized bridge project across the Columbia River and the state’s millions of dollars in “suspicious” Business Energy Tax Credits. 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Zundel, the Paciic Green Party candidate and a coun- selor and former political scientist, said he is running to advocate for a rank-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference rather than choosing a single candi- date. Study: Human-caused warming burns more Western forests Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays Wednesday, October 12, 2016 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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