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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Environmental groups oppose
use of cyanide capsules
Staff photos by Jade McDowell
Generous green thumbs
Samantha Steffey, left, and
Jeanne Steffey, center, above,
work to plant flowers during
a landscaping work party Sat-
urday with Hermiston Assem-
bly of God and city of Herm-
iston staff outside the new
Harkenrider Senior Activity
Center. The plants were part
of an $8,000 donation from
Hermiston Kiwanis Club, and
selected by the Hermiston
Garden Club. Seniors who
are part of the new activity
center will have opportuni-
ties to help care for the land-
scaping with help from the
garden club.
Facial recognition tech at
schools fuels privacy debate
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Bannock County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File
This Thursday, March 16, 2017, file pho-
to shows an M-44 cyanide device in Po-
catello, Idaho.
2015, and livestock owners lost $32.5 mil-
lion from attacks on sheep and lambs by all
predators that year.
The petition notes that Wildlife Services
reported 246,985 animals killed by M-44s
from 2000 through 2016, ranging from
grizzly bears to kangaroo rats to red-tailed
hawks.
The devices killed 4,621 animals in
Oregon during that time; last year a device
killed OR-48, a collared gray wolf living in
northeast Oregon.
“Any animal that is attracted to scents
is at risk,” Fahy said. “What’s reported is a
small fraction of what’s been done.”
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BEND (AP) — Nearly 100 environ-
mental groups are calling for a ban in Ore-
gon on the use of cyanide capsules to con-
trol predators like coyotes, foxes and wild
dogs that can attack and eat livestock ani-
mals, a newspaper reported.
The groups sent a letter this month
to state and federal agencies calling the
M-44 devices ineffective and dangerous to
humans, pets and other animals not being
targeted, The Bulletin reported on Monday.
M-44 devices are spring-loaded devices
that contain a capsule filled with sodium
cyanide that’s partially buried in the ground
and coated with a substance that’s designed
to attract canines.
When an animal triggers the device, a
lethal dose of sodium cyanide is ejected.
“This is a no-brainer, and I still find it
hard to believe that this is still going on,”
said Brooks Fahy, executive director of
the Oregon conservation nonprofit Preda-
tor Defense, one of the groups leading the
effort.
Idaho and Colorado have banned the
devices, but federal wildlife managers say
they’re critical to controlling predators.
Wildlife Services, a federal program
within the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service, says coyotes killed more than
118,000 sheep and lambs nationwide in
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SEATTLE (AP) — Facial recognition
technology is being used to increase secu-
rity at one Seattle school, but the technology
is fueling debate about privacy concerns.
The Seattle Times reports the company
RealNetworks began offering the technol-
ogy free to K-12 schools this summer in an
effort to improve school security.
It’s in use at the private elementary Uni-
versity Child Development School. The
school gave parents the option of add-
ing their face to the database, and so far
about 300 parents have done so. If a par-
ent’s face is recognized by the system, they
door opens, reducing the need for someone
inside the school to answer a buzzer.
Parent Ana Hedrick says the system is
convenient and feels safe. Adam Schwartz
with the digital privacy group Electronic
Frontier Foundation says school security is a
serious issue but the damage to privacy from
facial recognition technology could be high.
Investigation underway after
Portland police shooting
PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities are
investigating after an officer-involved
shooting in downtown Portland early Sun-
day morning.
Portland Police have not released the
name of those involved, but say officers
were patrolling when they heard shots
being fired and engaged with a suspect. No
officers were injured, but the person who
was shot was taken to a local hospital.
That person’s condition was not
released.
Portland Police Detectives and the Mult-
nomah County District Attorney’s Office
are investigating. The officers involved
have been placed on paid administrative
leave until the investigation is complete.
Washington kills another
wolf that preyed on cattle
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of
Washington has killed a second wolf from
a pack that has been preying on cattle in
Ferry County.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife
says a marksman shot an adult female wolf
on Friday. The wolf is from the Old Pro-
fanity Territory pack that has repeatedly
attacked cattle in the Kettle River Range.
The Center for Biological Diversity
says the killing of wolves in senseless, and
this is the fourth pack the state has deci-
mated to protect the cattle of one rancher.
The wolf shot on Friday was believed to
be the breeding female of the pack. The pack
is believed to consist now of an adult male
and one juvenile.
The state will evaluate whether the hunts
have changed the pack’s behavior before
undertaking another hunt.
Sheriff: 2-year-old child died
in tractor accident
ESTACADA (AP) — Authorities say a
2-year-old child died in an accident involv-
ing a tractor Saturday morning in Estacada.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office
says deputies responded to a home just
before 10 a.m. on Saturday and found the
toddler had suffered fatal injuries.
Officials didn’t release any details or
the identity of those involved. The sheriff’s
office child abuse team is investigating the
death, which is standard procedure.
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