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Gun control: Hearings on proposed gun regulations
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The major draw for wit-
nesses appeared to be Sen-
ate Bill 978, which con-
tained 44 pages of new gun
regulations, including pro-
visions that allow retailers
to raise the minimum age
to buy a gun and regulating
3-D printed guns.
By 8 a.m. Tuesday, when
public testimony was set to
start on that bill, a long line
of people still snaked around
the Capitol basement, wait-
ing to fi ll out a sign-up sheet
to testify against the bill.
Capitol staff and law-
makers expected the crowds.
Two committees took testi-
mony: In the morning, the
Senate Judiciary Committee
heard testimony on Senate
Bill 978, and the House Judi-
ciary Committee heard testi-
mony on House Bill 2013.
On March 23, gun rights
supporters gathered in front
of the state Capitol to protest
efforts by the legislature to
regulate guns.
The committees are
expected to hold work ses-
sions on the bills April 8.
Oregon Capital Bureau photo/East Oregonian
People sign up to testify against Senate Bill 978, which
would allow gun retailers to raise minimum ages, impose
secure storage requirements on gun owners and prohibit
untraceable “ghost guns” printed by 3-D printers.
Under SB 978, Oregon
retailers could set their min-
imum age to buy a gun at
up to 21, and gun owners
would have to secure their
guns with a cable or trigger
lock, or in a securely locked
container.
The bill would also place
strict regulations on 3-D
printed, or “ghost” guns .
Under the proposed law,
failing to transfer guns in a
secure way and failing to
report lost or stolen fi re-
arms within 72 hours would
be violations of law. The bill
would also hold gun own-
ers liable for any injuries
that result within two years
if their fi rearm is stolen and
they don’t report it.
People who transfer a
fi rearm to a minor would,
under the proposed law,
need to directly supervise
the minor using it, except
for minors who own guns or
have a valid youth hunting
license.
There would be liabil-
ity to the person who trans-
ferred a gun to a minor if
the minor injured someone
or damaged property using
the gun and didn’t directly
supervise that minor.
The law would also
require the state’s health
agency to establish rules for
minimum specifi cations for
trigger locks, cable locks and
containers that have tam-
per-resistant locks on them
by Jan. 1.
If a person who leaves a
fi rearm in a place where they
know a minor is likely to
gain access to it, and a minor
does gain access to the fi re-
arm, they would be commit-
ting a Class A violation, with
exceptions if the fi rearm was
properly stored.
Unlawful storage of a fi re-
arm would become a Class B
misdemeanor if a minor gets
ahold of an unsecured fi re-
arm and “exhibits the fi re-
arm in a careless, angry, or
threatening manner,” and a
Class A misdemeanor if the
minor kills or injures another
person after getting an unse-
cured gun.
River: Improved habitat for steelhead, chinook
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Ellen Morris Bishop
The new small side channels will be constructed at the west
end of the Tamkaliks property. Nez Perce volunteers from the
Yakima Reservation will relocate the sweat lodge, seen in the
distance.
fi lled in to provide agricul-
tural fi elds.
“There are three things
that juvenile fi sh need
for a good survival rate,”
said Menton. “First, mul-
tiple small channels with
deep pools. Second, lots of
woody debris in the them.
And fi nally, quiet pools
extended off the small chan-
nels for young fi sh to col-
lect and rest.” The details
of channel and pool design
include these factors as well
as prescriptions for the size
and types of rocks in the
-Enterprise Mom
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the album as bare bones
as possible with minimal
contributions from others.
Kinzie’s father contributed
banjo on one track and
Steele’s father contributed
saxophone on another.
“I think it’s important
to spend time improving
some stuff and maximizing
sound while taking away
other stuff, so that you have
really nice patterns and col-
ors shining,” Kenzie said.
The songs are a var-
ied lot, with an intense
jazz piece focusing on
social justice while another
focused on the fi rst female
Canadian trapper, which
is a contemplative piece.
Another celebrates a local
masseuse.
All of the songs were
composed after June of
2016, but none are com-
pletely new as Kinzie
believes that recording a
song immediately after
composition misses oppor-
tunities for improvement.
“There’s always little
insights you get about an
artistic piece blocked from
view when it’s immediately
completed, taking one’s
time is an approach I fi nd
to be very helpful.”
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With the help of ODF
employees and their equip-
ment, student Steven Beck-
man lays down a wet line
with a fi re hose in order to
create a fi re perimeter as
other students start small
fi res with drip torched that
contain a mixture of diesel
and gasoline.
The boys are serious
about their work but enjoy-
ing themselves. The ban-
ter is good-natured, and the
students and ODF employ-
ees get along well. The
class and ODF person-
nel are fi nished burning
the pasture and the ditch
in front of the Kilgore
home in time to get back to
school in time for the bus
or athletics.
Senior Steven Beckman
said he’s fi refi ghting this
summer and took the class
because of hearing Fulfer
talk about it.
“I really like challenges
— that’s why I like to
wrestle,” Beckman said.
The way he talked, it’s
pretty hard, so I’m excited
for that. I’ll learn a lot and
make a lot of money for
college.”
Junior Hadley Miller
said Fulfer recruited him
for the class. Although
he’s too young to fi ght fi re
this year, he’ll help Fulfer
instruct next year. He likes
the class because of the
opportunity to be outdoors
and he enjoys the burns
and using the chain saw.
“It’s a good class to
have, and if you apply for
a fi refi ghting job, this class
looks really good on that,”
he said.
Senior Kade Kilgore said
he’s heard Fulfer talk about
fi re science since the teacher
arrived here when Kilgore
was in the eighth grade and
he’s glad he took the class.
His favorite part is running
the chain saw. He also noted
the need for fi refi ghters.
“As the summers get
hotter and drier, people need
to start fi lling these jobs,
and this class is a great way
to get your foot in the door.”
As for Fulfer, he’s look-
ing forward to future incar-
nations of the class.
“It’s really been a high-
light of my year, and it’s
going to be a highlight of
every year, I think,” he said.
“I look forward to teaching
it.”
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salmon. This is import-
ant because juvenile Chi-
nook overwinter here in the
upper part of the Wallowa/
Grande Ronde River basin.
Those fi sh arrive at Snake
River and Columbia River
dams later in the year than
fi sh that over-winter lower
in the system. Some years
these late Wallowa County
arrivals have much better
survival rates. So overwin-
tering here is am important
migration and survival strat-
egy for Chinook. Provid-
ing habitat for these fi sh is
important. The critical deep
pools in small channels have
become scarce because riv-
ers were channelized in the
past, and wetland areas with
small channels were often
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ATHLETE
“We are really happy to
be able to begin this proj-
ect,” said Mary Hawkins,
Director of the Wallowa
Band Nez Perce Homeland
Center in Wallowa. “It’s
been a goal for a long time
that started with Joe McCor-
mack’s vision.”
The idea of a river resto-
ration project began about a
decade ago. The fi rst concept
was to reconstruct meanders
in the main channel. But
that would have impacted
neighboring properties. So
the Homeland Project con-
sidered a side channel that
entered the property above
what is now the Storie Street
foot-bridge. But that loca-
tion was too shallow to bed-
rock to create a suitable
channel.
The new design, crafted
by BPA, will create sev-
eral small channels, all on
the Homeland Project prop-
erty, beginning about 400
feet downstream from the
foot-bridge to the Home-
land Project. They will carry
water from the river, and
return that fl ow to the river,
producing relatively deep,
narrow aquatic habitat for
juvenile fi sh.
The multiple channels
will create some character-
istics of a braided stream.
They include 12 pools that
will be 3 — 5 feet deep to
provide fi rst class rearing
and over-wintering hab-
itat for juvenile Chinook
channel bottom.
Restoration of ripar-
ian and wetland habitat and
plants will be part of the
project as well. “Plants will
include willows, sedges,
and small fruit bulrush,”
said Katie Frenyea, fi sheries
biologist and Northeast Ore-
gon Project Leader for Nez
Perce Tribe’s Department
of Fisheries and Resource
Management in Joseph.
“These three plants together
may be able to out-compete
reed canarygrass.”
Reed canarygrass is a
tall, aggressive, perennial
and highly invasive orna-
mental grass that dimin-
ishes wetland and riparian
habitat for birds and mam-
mals. It has a considerable
foothold on some portions
of the Homeland Project’s
land. The wetland resto-
ration plan includes sev-
eral other strategies to con-
trol, and perhaps vanquish
it, including placement of a
cover of fi ne clays in areas
where the reed canarygrass
is well-established. “We’ve
found that it can’t sprout
through a fi ne-grained clay
substrate,” Frenyea said.
“We think that between
the clays and the combined
bull rush, sedge, and wil-
low plantings, we’ll have it
more under control.”
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