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Friday, December 30, 2016
Rural-urban divide missing in Idaho
County, border Owyhee.
Support
for
livestock
grazing was high across the
region. Residents of all four
counties were also in line on
many other natural resource
issues, such as logging and
outdoor recreation opportuni-
ties.
For example, while 90
percent of Owyhee County
residents surveyed support
livestock grazing, nearly 80
percent from the urban areas
also support it.
“There are some very posi-
tive feelings toward agriculture
and grazing,” said UI agricul-
tural economist Neil Rimbey,
one of the report’s four authors.
“That’s something you don’t
usually get by reading the
newspapers or listening to the
news.”
Owyhee County, at almost
5 million acres, is one of the
nation’s largest counties, and
83 percent of it is public land,
By SEAN ELLIS
EO Media Group
BOISE — The rural-urban
divide that splits many states
hasn’t reached Idaho yet, a new
survey shows.
The University of Idaho
survey found that residents of
Idaho’s two main urban coun-
ties see eye-to-eye with their
rural counterparts in Owyhee
County on many natural
resource issues, such as public
lands grazing and logging.
Owyhee
County
in
southwestern Idaho is heavily
dependent on agriculture,
particularly raising livestock.
Some 80 percent of the coun-
ty’s economic output is tied to
the farming industry.
UI surveyed 450 people
in Ada, Canyon, Elmore and
Owyhee counties. Ada and
Canyon county are the state’s
two most populous urban
areas and, along with Elmore
most managed by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management.
Public lands grazing is a
major issue in Owyhee County.
In response to a lawsuit,
a federal judge ordered the
BLM’s Owyhee field office
to rewrite 68 grazing permits
that it renewed in 1997. The
case includes 120 grazing allot-
ments and impacts hundreds of
thousands of acres in Owyhee
County.
The new permits, issued
in 2013, reduced grazing by
30-50 percent in most cases.
The survey results show
urban residents support live-
stock grazing on public lands.
Fewer than 2 percent of
urban residents surveyed
considered livestock grazing
to be a serious problem facing
southwestern Idaho.
Sixty-six percent of urban
residents felt livestock grazing
was a very healthy or some-
what healthy aspect of working
BEND (AP) — Last
week’s
officer-involved
shooting in downtown Bend
has the police department
reconsidering an earlier deci-
sion not to purchase body
cameras.
Police Chief Jim Porter
told The Bulletin newspaper
the department considered
the cameras before, but felt
the cost of equipment and
other expenses was prohibi-
tive.
Porter said falling prices
and the shooting of Michael
Jacques have prompted the
department to take another
look at the viability of
cameras that are worn by
officers and record their daily
activities.
The 31-year-old driver
was shot and killed during a
traffic stop Friday night. A
Bend Police officer pulled
him over after receiving
reports of him driving errati-
cally in a Dodge Caravan.
The shooting investiga-
tion remains active.
Porter said he initially
backed away from using
body cams because the
department didn’t have the
money for it, and he didn’t
see the need.
“I did not feel at the time
filed by Joseph O’Shaugh-
nessy and Eric Flores.
In Nevada, he’s accused
of
organizing
“armed
protection” in an April 2014
standoff over impounding
Cliven Bundy’s cattle.
Payne’s attorney had also
argued that his client’s plea
should be withdrawn because
Ammon Bundy — Cliven
Bundy’s son — and others
were acquitted of the same
charges. Brown ruled that the
plea stood on those grounds
as well.
“This is not a case in which
there is a new question as to
Payne’s factual innocence
after the trial of his Co-Defen-
dants,” Brown said. “Indeed,
it remains undisputed that
Payne was a leader of the
occupation of the (Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge).”
Under the plea agreement,
federal prosecutors were
to recommend a 12-year
sentence, but Payne could
have argued for seven years.
It is unclear if that recom-
mended sentence will remain
since no plea agreement has
been reached in the Nevada
case.
Payne will be sentenced at
a later date.
landscapes while 13 percent
felt it was somewhat or very
unhealthy.
Owyhee County Commis-
sioner Kelly Aberasturi said the
survey results were surprising
but welcomed.
“It makes a big difference
when we know citizens in urban
areas realize we are utilizing
the resources properly,” he said.
The overall population of
the four-county region has
increased by 65 percent in the
past 25 years. It has increased
by 109 percent in Canyon
County and 91 percent in Ada
County.
In spite of that, the social
cohesion among residents in
the area remains solid, said UI
sociologist J.D. Wulfhorst, a
report author.
He said that result is notable
given the area’s population
growth and is unheard of in
other areas that have experi-
enced rapid growth.
that we had a culture that
needed body cameras,” he
said. “We weren’t getting
excessive force complaints;
we weren’t seeing complaints
about officers’ attitudes on
the street.”
Porter said the department
set aside $40,000 during the
2013-14 budget cycle for
body cameras, but then the
Oregon Legislature passed
regulations as to when the
cameras could be turned off,
and how the data has to be
stored and processed. That
greatly increased the cost,
Porter said.
“Yes, we are looking at
them again,” Porter said.
“There’s now much easier
software to work with to be
able to redact information
out of the videos to make it
much easier to use.”
Porter and Deschutes
County District Attorney
John Hummel declined
comment on whether body
cam footage would be
helpful in the investigation
of Jacques’ death.
Hummel,
a
former
defense attorney, said he has
always been in favor of body
cameras.
“Having more evidence is
always better,” Hummel said.
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SATURDAY
Snow early this
morning
Mostly sunny and
chilly
37° 23°
39° 27°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cloudy, a bit of
snow; colder
Very cold with a
snow shower
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
frigid
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PENDLETON
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LOW
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28°
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26°
65° (1975) -13° (1990)
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HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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25°
39°
27°
59° (1965) -14° (1990)
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Moonrise today
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Aberdeen Olympia
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Kennewick Walla Walla
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39/24
Astoria
37/21
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Enterprise
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Pendleton 30/7
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37/23
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46/26
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John Day
34/13
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
23/4
44/27
33/9
Caldwell
Burns
24/6
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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Boardman
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REGIONAL FORECAST
7:36 a.m.
4:20 p.m.
8:21 a.m.
6:08 p.m.
New
Coastal Oregon: More clouds than sun
today; a shower in spots across the north.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A bit of snow
with little or no accumulation today.
Jan 27
Western Washington: A shower in the
morning; otherwise, mostly cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight.
PORTLAND
(AP) — The family of
wounded Oregon State
Police Trooper Nic
Cederberg says he was
able to speak with them
for the first time since
he was shot Christmas
night.
His brother Jeff
Cederberg wrote late
Wednesday on an online
donation page that Nic
was emotional and
thanked doctors and
nurses for saving his
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breaking elsewhere.
Cascades: Considerable cloudiness today
with a little snow, accumulating up to an
inch; colder.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
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PORTLAND (AP)
— The Oregon Court
of Appeals has reversed
the conviction of a
wheelchair user who
had been found guilty
of driving under the
influence of intoxicants.
James Greene of
Waldport was arrested
in November 2012 after
entering a crosswalk in
a motorized wheelchair
and striking the side
of a moving pickup.
Police determined
he was impaired by
alcohol and drugs, and
a jury convicted him of
drunken driving.
In his appeal, Greene
argued that he should
have been considered a
pedestrian, not subject to
the DUI law.
The state disagreed,
pointing to a law
that treats motorized
wheelchairs like
bicycles when they are
driven on bike lanes.
In its opinion
Thursday, the Appeals
Court decided legislators
only intended to have
wheelchairs treated like
bicycles in that narrow
circumstance, and users
should be considered
pedestrians when in a
crosswalk.
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reverses DUI
conviction of
wheelchair user
Brother says
wounded OSP
trooper is
improving
REGIONAL CITIES
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TODAY
WALLA WALLA,
Wash. (AP) — A unit
at the Washington
State Penitentiary in
Walla Walla remains
on restricted movement
following three recent
inmate fights.
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reports that restricted
movement means
activities such as
recreation time and
showers are suspended
for inmates.
The first fight had
broken out in one of the
prison’s units on Dec. 21
and involved about 14
inmates.
The other fights
happened about an hour
apart on Christmas
morning. Both involved
about 20 inmates and
took place in the outside
recreation yards at the
prison’s West Complex.
One of the Sunday
fights resulted in an
inmate receiving stitches
at a nearby hospital.
State Department of
Corrections spokesman
Jeremy Barclay says
officials are working to
determine the cause of
the fights.
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life. He wrote that his
brother’s condition is
improving by the hour,
and “most of the major
repair work has been
addressed.”
The Washington
County Sheriff’s Office
says Cederberg was
shot several times by
homicide suspect James
Tylka following a car
chase. Tylka was then
killed by police.
Officers pursued
Tylka after finding his
estranged wife dead
outside his suburban
Portland home.
Prison
restrictions
in place after
inmate brawls
Shooting prompts Bend police
to reconsider body cameras
Judge denies Ryan Payne’s
motion to undo guilty plea
PORTLAND (AP) — A
federal judge has denied
Oregon refuge occupier Ryan
Payne’s request to withdraw
his guilty plea.
U.S. District Judge Anna J.
Brown ruled Wednesday that
Payne’s plea in the Oregon
case wasn’t, as his attorney
argued,
contingent
on
reaching a plea agreement in
a case against him in Nevada,
The Oregonian reported.
“Payne’s factual state-
ments supporting his guilty
plea were both thorough and
unequivocal,” Brown wrote
in her 32-page ruling.
Payne, of Anaconda,
Montana, acknowledged in
July that he conspired with
others to prevent Interior
Department employees from
doing their jobs during the
41-day occupation of the
Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge.
Payne was one of 11
defendants to plead guilty
before others in the case went
to trial and were found not
guilty.
Payne was one of three
co-defendants who filed
motions to withdraw guilty
pleas. The judge hasn’t issued
rulings on the other motions
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lake-effect snow will impact the Upper Midwest and Northeast today. Rain will dampen
parts of California and the coastal Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Imperial Beach, Calif.
Low -17° in Pinedale, Wyo.
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