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out how valuable bees are for
farmers, pollinating roughly
$3 billion worth of crops in
North America alone. The
federal government even
developed a National Polli-
nator Health Strategy under
former President Barack
Obama in 2015 that aimed to
restore honeybee colonies to
sustainable levels by 2025.
But DeBano said there are
still gaps in knowledge when
it comes to wild bees and
how they interact with the
environment.
“It’s surprising how little
we know about them,” she
said.
For years, DeBano studied
how
livestock
grazing
affected bees on the Zumwalt
Prairie in Wallowa County. In
2014, she agreed to collab-
orate with the U.S. Forest
Service on the Starkey Exper-
imental Forest, expanding
the project’s scope to include
deer and elk.
“That really hasn’t been
done,” she said. “We know
deer and elk eat different
things on average from live-
stock.”
DeBano and her team
combined
on-the-ground
surveys of bees at Meadow
Creek with historical research
into the diets of deer and elk
to determine where there
may be overlap. It has been
no easy feat, considering
they identified more than
180 species of bees and 116
Photo contributed by Mary Rowland
Sandy DeBano, associate professor at the Hermiston
Agricultural Research and Extension Center, nets wild
bees as part of a research project at the Starkey Exper-
imental Forest and Range.
species of wildflowers in
bloom.
“It’s tough,” DeBano said
with a smile. “You have very
distinct groups of bees and
flowers progressing over the
summer and the growing
season.”
Catching bees is done
using simple traps or nets,
and DeBano figures she’s
been stung fewer than a
dozen times. The team plans
to return to the field for a
fourth consecutive summer
beginning in May, and this
year will also mark the first
time cattle are introduced on
the landscape.
DeBano said working
at Starkey has been a great
experience, with ample
ecological data already at
their fingertips.
“I had never worked in a
forested system before,” she
said. “It was a chance to do
bee work in riparian areas,
which was a big plus.”
The results of the study
could have additional impacts
on wildlife management to
preserve the health of pollina-
tors, DeBano said, and may
also help farmers to know
what plants they can incor-
porate around their fields to
possibly lure native bees.
“I think there are a lot
of practical applications,
for sure,” she said. “The
more you understand the
cumulative effects of certain
management practices, the
more informed decisions you
can make.”
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Contact George Plaven at
gplaven@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0825.
Senate passes bill
to allow removal of
guns from those at
‘imminent risk’
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM
—
People
deemed at “imminent risk”
of killing themselves or
injuring others could have
their guns taken away under
a bill the Oregon Senate
passed Monday.
Senate Bill 719, which
goes to the House, was
approved largely along party
lines, 17-11.
But 16 Democrats were
joined in support by Repub-
lican Brian Boquist of Dallas,
who lost his oldest son and
Navy veteran to suicide more
than a year ago — and three
soldiers under his Army
command to suicide after
they returned from the Iraq
War more than a decade ago.
Ten Republicans were
joined in opposition by
Democrat Betsy Johnson of
Scappoose. Two others were
absent.
“Everyone wants to
promote this as a gun bill. It’s
not,” said Boquist, the bill’s
main floor manager.
“We want to make sure
individuals do not lose their
gun rights. We are trying to
help family members help
those individuals.”
The bill allows members
of a person’s immediate
household — or police at
their request — to seek an
“extreme risk protection
order” from a judge to deny
possession of firearms if the
person is at imminent risk of
suicide or a danger to others.
The judge would have to
decide on the request that day
or the next judicial day, but
the petitioner would have to
present “clear and convincing
evidence” to justify the order.
A person would have 30
days to request a hearing to
rescind an order.
“We are targeting only
those individuals who want
to commit suicide and
unfortunately may murder
their spouse, their children
or their roommate in the
house,” Boquist said. “This
is not some broad, sweeping
confiscation like you see in
Breitbart News.”
Boquist said similar
processes already are in place
in several states, among them
Connecticut, California and
Washington, where voters
in 2016 approved a ballot
measure containing it. He
said the Washington law is
broader than SB 719.
Perhaps because a fellow
Republican was its chief
manager, Republican oppo-
nents refrained from harsh
criticism. Sen. Kim Thatcher
of Keizer, one of two Repub-
licans to oppose it in the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
complained it was too vague.
Sen.
Alan
Olsen,
R-Canby, also an Army
veteran, said the real answer
is an expansion of mental
health services.
Boquist said he agreed,
but he took a political beating
when he teamed up in 2013
with
Senate
President
Peter Courtney, D-Salem,
to secure more money for
mental health through higher
tobacco taxes.
The bill drew expected
criticism and praise from the
usual interest groups.
The
National
Rifle
Association’s Institute for
Legislative Action called the
bill “unnecessary and goes
far beyond existing law,” but
avoided personal references
to Boquist. Oregon Firearms
Federation described Boquist
as “formerly pro-gun.”
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