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3½ years to complete, longer
than first anticipated due to
some setbacks, including a
wildfire that burned around
2,000 acres of the forest. The
fire contributed to the delay in
setting up the project.
“They had to reassess the
burned areas and how they
would regenerate,” said Samp-
son.
Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center
The Lionshead Fire is shown burning Sept. 6 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
Wildfire
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Buffer pool protection
The California program is
protected from wildfire events
through its “buffer pool” of
carbon credits, which are
available to use in case forest
carbon is lost through wild-
fire or other natural disasters.
Each forest project contributes
10-20% of its total credits into
the buffer account, which acts
as a sort of insurance.
The project area on Warm
Springs that burned, known
as ARC260, is located on the
east side of Mount Jefferson.
The area will be evaluated for
damage, said Brunoe, as not
all areas of a forest burn the
same — parts of a forest may
have a light or heavy burn, or
no burn at all. In addition, a
burned area is not necessar-
ily out of the carbon project
as a standing snag can still be
counted as carbon.
The verified estimate of
current carbon stocks must
be completed by a third party
within 23 months, accord-
ing to the California Air Re-
sources Board.
Much of the area where
ARC260 is located is currently
inaccessible due to deep snow,
Winco
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Shopko, a Green Bay-based
company, filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy in 2019 and closed
the Bend location. Since then it
closed all of its brick-and-mor-
tar locations after 57 years in
business.
Founded in 1967 as a
Waremart, according to the
company’s website, the WinCo
Superintendent
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Cook’s decades of experi-
ence with managing bonds
and levies, dealing with the
COVID-19 pandemic and
working with outside organiza-
tions made for a solid resume,
said board member Melissa
Barnes Dholakia. In particu-
lar, she praised his emphasis
on trying to help his students’
emotional and mental health.
“He has experience in ensur-
ing that social and emotional
learning is part of the curric-
ulum,” Barnes Dholakia said.
“It’s not an add-on. It’s just as
important as the academics.”
Fellow board member Amy
Tatom noted that while at
Coeur d‘Alene, Cook made sig-
nificant efforts to help students
in poverty. She believes that
could help students from low-
er-income households in south
Deschutes County.
“We heard last year, south
county needs more assistance,
more resources, they need
somebody who’s really an ad-
vocate,” Tatom said. “I’m really
hopeful Steve is going to be the
advocate that we need.”
Board member Shimiko
Montgomery noted that some
local people of color and others
“are going to be disappointed
we haven’t selected someone
with lived experience, that un-
derstand’s the urgency of rac-
ism.”
She encouraged those peo-
ple to discuss their concerns
with the board and with Cook.
“One of the wonderful
things about Steve is his open-
ness about this conversation, to
the work before us, and to be
said Brunoe, so research is ex-
pected to start in earnest in
spring.
“The extent and severity of
the fire impact to the Warm
Springs carbon project re-
mains unknown and will be
under evaluation for the next
year and a half, involving de-
tailed forest inventories and
modeling,” said Brunoe.
Once the evaluation of the
forest damage is complete, a
determination will be made
on how much to reduce the
buffer pool.
Scientists worried
Some scientists have ex-
pressed concern that the buf-
fer pool is not sufficiently pro-
tected against fire risks over
the 100-year period, and hold
up Warm Springs as an ex-
ample.
“The fact that the Warm
Springs project has burned
twice in a decade is a perfect
example of the problem,” said
Danny Cullenward, lecturer at
Stanford Law School and pol-
icy director of CarbonPlan, a
nonprofit that independently
analyzes carbon removal op-
portunities based on science
and data. “There is no way the
protocol’s buffer pool holds up
if that pattern is common in
the program.”
chain’s predominant presence
was in the Pacific Northwest
through the 1970s. It became
employee-owned through an
employee stock ownership
program in 1985. It is known
for its low prices, large bulk
food section, not accepting
credit cards and requiring cus-
tomers to bag their own gro-
ceries.
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held accountable to it,” Mont-
gomery said.
Both Bellamy and Cook
spoke about their educational
philosophies and goals at a
public hearing in Decem-
ber. Video of that hearing is
available at The Bulletin’s web-
site.
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Debra Lesine Aldous
of Redmond, OR
July 11, 1957 -
January 7, 2021
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The wildfire in 2020 wasn’t
the first time the project area
burned. When the project was
in the set-up stage, a wildfire
burned around 2,000 acres
of forest within the project
boundaries, said Don Samp-
son, who helped arrange the
agreement when he was chief
executive of Warm Springs
Ventures, the tribe’s economic
arm. Sampson worked for
ventures from 2013 to 2016.
When the project was in its
early stages, said Sampson, a
series of independent anal-
yses took place to verify the
amount and value of carbon
that could be sequestered and
offset. The entire process took
Carbon credits
When the preparation work
was complete, the California
Air Resources Board issued
Warm Springs 2.15 million
carbon offset credits. The off-
sets represented 2.15 million
metric tons of verified green-
house gas emission reduc-
tions.
Annual growth within the
project boundary can be con-
verted to additional carbon
offsets that the tribes can sell.
To date, more than 2.6 million
Air Resources Board carbon
offset credits have been issued
to Warm Springs.
“There are about 20 projects
in the range of 1 million to 5
million offset credits upfront,
and a handful that get as big as
almost 15 million,” said Cul-
lenward. “I would say Warm
Springs is one of the large
projects but not atypically
large nor on the extreme end
of the size distribution.”
How are the offset credits
used? In 2018, the tribes an-
nounced they had contracted
with a third party to sell the
credits over several years and
that those credits would “pro-
vide revenue in the tens of
Alex Robert Bowlin
December 13, 1996 – December 27, 2020
On Sunday, December
27, 2020, Alex Robert
Bowlin passed away at his
home in Bend, Oregon.
His infectious smile and
positivity will never be
forgotten. Alex was born just minutes aft er
his twin sister, Allie Bowlin, on a crisp
December day in Salem, Oregon in 1996.
From that day on, Alex brought nothing
but authentic care and happiness to every
person he met and every relationship he
built. He was a genuine friend to so many,
an accomplished soccer player, golfer, skier,
scuba diver, river raft er, bowler and an avid
outdoor adventurer; constantly hiking and
skiing the Cascades with friends and family.
Whether through work, school or sports,
every aspect of Alex’s life welcomed new,
lifelong friends that he cherished.
Alex attended Summit High School, where
he was a member of both soccer and golf
teams all four years. Alex led his team to a
state championship junior year; winning
player of the year and scoring 15 goals
in just that season alone. He went on to
attend Washington State University and
the University of Oregon, where he was
a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, just like his brother James. Alex
spent time working as a river guide in
Maupin, Oregon, and on the mountain in
Big Sky, Montana. He was passionate about
showing all who visited the beauty in nature
Alex passed away from Type 1 diabetic
complications. He is survived by his loving
parents, Jim and Lisa Bowlin; older brother,
James; twin sister, Allie; grandparents Jim
and Kathie Bowlin and grandmother Joanne
Bowlin. He is also survived by his uncles,
Corey Bowlin and Jack Th omas; aunt and
uncle Bob and Linda Goodwill, his girlfriend
of two years, Emma, and so many friends
whom he cared for deeply. He also leaves
behind one of his favorite outdoor adventure
buddies, his family’s yorkie poodle mix,
Beau.
A celebration of Alex’s life will be held
by his family at a later date. Memorial
Contributions can be made to the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) that
aims to end Type 1 diabetes (T1D).
In a journal Alex kept, he wrote, “Friends,
climb mountains, not for the world to see
you, but for you to see the world.” It is his
family’s hope that those who knew Alex keep
his spirit of exploration and admiration for
the world in their hearts in his honor.
millions of dollars for tribal
operations, improved forest
management and economic
development initiatives.”
The tribes declined to con-
firm the specific amount re-
ceived from the agreement.
‘Much-needed revenue’
Sampson said the tribes
set aside some of the funds
for forest thinning and for-
est health projects, to prevent
wildfire and tree disease.
“Overall it brought it much-
needed revenue,” he said.
“That was the biggest revenue
source they had for quite a few
years.”
Funds were also set aside for
a cannabis project, said Samp-
son. That project stalled during
his tenure at Warm Springs but
was later revived into a hemp
project, which received federal
approval last year.
The decision to enter the
program was timely, as it co-
incided with the winding
down of the local sawmill,
Warm Springs Forest Prod-
ucts Industries, which was
struggling to turn a profit
due to a lack of large logs.
The program was also consis-
tent with the tribe’s policy on
generating revenue through
environmentally-conscious
ventures.
“Rather than take an ex-
tractive approach and cut-
ting timber and selling logs
off the reservation, (Tribal
Council) wanted to transition
to one that was more conser-
vation-based and still make
revenue for the tribe,” said
Sampson. “So from that point
of view, it was a successful
project.”
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The loving and much loved Joyce H. Laski, 94,
was called to be with her heavenly father on
Saturday, December 26, 2020.
The second of four children, she was born in Lost
Valley Oregon, near Condon, in 1926, where her
family raised sheep. The family moved to Albany
Oregon in 1935 where Joyce graduated from high
school and then worked as a waitress in a local
restaurant where she also helped serve WWII
soldiers from the nearby Camp Adair military
training site. Shortly av er WW2, she reluctantly
accepted a blind date with Dale Marcy, a US Navy
Sailor. They fell in love, married in Albany, lived in
San Diego, and then raised their two sons, Bruce
and Tim while living in Albany, Coquille, Coos
Bay, Salem, Prineville, and Prairie City Oregon,
where Dale was a pharmacist and Joyce worked
in retail.
Av er separa} ng from Dale, Joyce started a new
life near her parents in Albany Oregon in 1969.
She worked at the Albany Payless Drug Store,
where she worked her way up to garden and
automo} ve department manager and re} red in
1985.
She loved to go dancing at local places and there
met George Laski who she married in October
1976. They shared a loving and truly wonderful
marriage in Sweet Home Oregon, where they
regularly at ended Sweet Home9s St. Helen9s
Catholic Church. She also enjoyed her û ower
garden, vegetable garden, û shing for Kokanee,
camping, traveling, and dancing with George at
the VFW in Albany.
Joyce and George fully appreciated their
re} rements, visi} ng with extended family,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and
at ending family reunions of their extended
families. They were also avid travelers, visi} ng
all 50 States and most Canadian provinces.
Joyce traveled with other family members to
Chile, Argen} na, Wales, Scotland and the UK and
enjoyed cruises to Caribbean islands, the Panama
Canal, and Alaska.
Joyce was preceded in death by her parents,
Henry and Mary Ochse; younger brother Howard
Ochse; older sister Gene Gross; û rst husband,
Dale Marcy; second husband, George Laski; and
elder son, Bruce Marcy.
She is survived by her younger sister, Joann
Humphrey; younger son, Tim Marcy and his
wife Ximena; daughter-in-law, Suzan Marcy;
granddaughter, Nancy and husband Kordel
Doll; grandson, Robert and wife Leslie Marcy;
grandson Scot and wife Anna-Lena Marcy;
granddaughter Lesa and husband Larry Simpson;
and granddaughter Chris} na and husband Jamie
Anderson. She is survived by great grandchildren
Garret and wife Kimberly Marcy; Whitney and
husband Sean Wilson; Jordan Marcy; Hayden
Grover; Kira Marcy; Jareth Anderson; Polly
Anderson; Aaron McCulloch; Larrisa Simpson;
Rhianon Simpson. And she is survived by great
great grandchildren Amelia, Sawyer, and Sadie
Marcy and numerous nieces, nephews, and their
families.
Joyce will be put to rest at the Pilot But e
Cemetery in Bend, OR on an as yet unspeciû ed
date in January accompanied by close family
and Pastor Steven Koski of the First Presbyterian
church. A celebra} on of Joyce9s life will take
place later this summer.