The BulleTin • Tuesday, March 30, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Tuesday, March 30, the
89th day of 2021. There are 276
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 30, 1981, President
Ronald Reagan was shot and
seriously injured outside a
Washington, D.C. hotel by John
W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded
were White House press secre-
tary James Brady, Secret Service
agent Timothy McCarthy and a
District of Columbia police offi-
cer, Thomas Delahanty.
In 1822, Florida became a Unit-
ed States territory.
In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State
William Seward reached agree-
ment with Russia to purchase
the territory of Alaska for $7.2
million, a deal ridiculed by critics
as “Seward’s Folly.”
In 1870, the 15th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution, which
prohibited denying citizens the
right to vote and hold office on
the basis of race, was declared
in effect by Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish.
In 1975, as the Vietnam War
neared its end, Communist forc-
es occupied the city of Da Nang.
In 1987, at the 59th Academy
Awards, “Platoon” was named
best picture; Marlee Matlin re-
ceived best actress for “Children
of a Lesser God” and Paul New-
man was honored as best actor
for “The Color of Money.”
In 1999, Yugoslav leader Slo-
bodan Milosevic insisted that
NATO attacks stop before he
moved toward peace, declaring
his forces ready to fight “to the
very end.” NATO answered with
new resolve to wreck his military
with a relentless air assault.
In 2004, in a reversal, President
George W. Bush agreed to let
national security adviser Con-
doleezza Rice testify publicly
and under oath before an inde-
pendent panel investigating the
9/11 terrorist attacks.
In 2006, American reporter
Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The
Christian Science Monitor, was
released after 82 days as a hos-
tage in Iraq.
In 2009, President Barack
Obama asserted unprecedented
government control over the
auto industry, rejecting turn-
around plans from General Mo-
tors and Chrysler and raising the
prospect of controlled bankrupt-
cy for either ailing auto giant.
In 2010, President Obama
signed a single measure sealing
his health care overhaul and
making the government the
primary lender to students by
cutting banks out of the process.
In 2015, German officials
confirmed that Germanwings
co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was
once diagnosed with suicidal
tendencies and received lengthy
psychotherapy before receiving
his pilot’s license; they believed
Lubitz deliberately smashed
his Airbus A320 into the French
Alps, killing 150 people. Comedy
Central announced that Trevor
Noah, a 31-year-old comedian
from South Africa, would suc-
ceed Jon Stewart as host of “The
Daily Show.”
Ten years ago: A top Libyan
official, Foreign Minister Moussa
Koussa, defected to Britain, deal-
ing a blow to leader Moammar
Gadhafi. Tilikum, the killer whale
that had drowned trainer Dawn
Brancheau in 2010 at SeaWorld
in Orlando, Florida, resumed
performing for the first time
since the woman’s death.
Five years ago: A Hennepin
County, Minnesota, prosecutor
announced that two Minneap-
olis police officers involved in
the 2015 fatal shooting of Jamar
Clark, a Black man, would not
face criminal charges, a decision
that drew outrage from commu-
nity members.
One year ago: Florida author-
ities arrested a megachurch
pastor after they said he held
two Sunday services with hun-
dreds in attendance in violation
of coronavirus restrictions. (The
charges were later dropped.) Bill
Withers, who wrote and sang
a string of soulful songs in the
1970s that included “Lean on
Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,”
died at 81 in Los Angeles.
Today’s Birthdays: Game show
host Peter Marshall is 95. Actor
John Astin is 91. Actor-director
Warren Beatty is 84. Rock musi-
cian Graeme Edge (The Moody
Blues) is 80. Rock musician Eric
Clapton is 76. Actor Justin Deas
is 73. Actor Paul Reiser is 65. Rap
artist MC Hammer is 59. Singer
Tracy Chapman is 57. Actor Ian
Ziering is 57. TV personality Piers
Morgan is 56. Rock musician Joey
Castillo is 55. Actor Donna D’Err-
ico is 53. Singer Celine Dion is 53.
TV personality/producer Richard
Rawlings is 52. Actor Mark Con-
suelos is 50. Actor Bahar Soome-
kh is 46. Actor Jessica Cauffiel is
45. Singer Norah Jones is 42.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
MOUNT ST. HELENS
A ROAD THROUGH
THE BLAST ZONE?
Debate erupts over proposal to build Forest Service access
BY MONICA SAMAYOA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
S
T. HELENS, Wash. — Conser-
vation groups and scientists are
challenging a federal decision to
build a road through the Mount
St. Helens blast zone, saying it would
damage more than two dozen decades
worth of irreplaceable research plots.
Since the 1980 eruption, Mount St.
Helens National Volcanic Monument’s
blast zone, known as Pumice Plain, has
provided scientists and researchers a
unique opportunity to conduct studies
on plots of land unlike anywhere else in
the world. Some of the research started
right after the blast, providing four de-
cades worth of scientific knowledge and
insight into the ways watersheds take
shape, the evolution of aquatic species
and mammals, and the development of
new plant communities.
But the preservation of some of these
research plots is in conflict with another
value: protecting against the risk that
water, logs and debris held back by a
natural dam on the volcano’s Spirit Lake
could break loose.
The May 18, 1980, eruption de-
stroyed the lake’s only water outlet. Five
years later, a 1.6-mile-long tunnel was
dug into a ridge to release the water,
which continues to enter the lake as
rain falls and snow melts.
But the need for ongoing repairs to
the tunnel’s intake gate, along with con-
cerns that the tunnel could be damaged
in an earthquake, has led the U.S. Forest
Service to authorize a new or improved
intake gate and to conduct geotechni-
cal drilling to determine possible fu-
ture outflow system from the lake. And
it wants to build an access road across
Pumice Plain so crews and equipment
can reach the work sites.
The Forest Service decision says
there is a need to “ensure the protection
of public safety, health, property and
the environment from a catastrophic
breach of the Spirit Lake natural debris
blockage caused by the 1980 eruption.”
The access road would be 3.4 miles
in total length and 16 feet wide — and it
would impact at least 25 research plots
in the area.
That work is being challenged by the
Western Environmental Law Center,
which is representing four conservation
groups and three individuals in its law-
suit against the Forest Service decision.
Staff Attorney Susan Jane Brown said the
Forest Service failed to consider alterna-
tives and to gather input from scientists
who have conducted research there.
“That inability or the lack of taking
that comprehensive look threatens the
scientific and environmental values that
the Pumice Plain represents to not only
people in the Pacific Northwest but re-
ally research globally and internation-
ally,” she said.
The plan would impact about 4% of the
3,840-acre Pumice Plain research area.
Brown said she understands the im-
portance of repairing the natural dam
for public safety concerns, but the over-
flow is not a new or urgent issue.
“It’s something that we need to deal
with, but it’s not going to fail tomor-
row, and it’s not going to fail next week,
(and) it’s not going to fail next month,”
Hikers head up the trail for a
Mount St. Helens Institute-guided
climb to the lip of the crater in 2013. The
devastated landscape that was left by the
1980 eruption has shown steady recovery.
Bill Wagner/The Daily News via AP, file
she said. “It will fail eventually, but we
will have quite a bit of warning at that
point should that situation arise.”
Jim Gawel is an associate professor at
the University of Washington Tacoma.
He’s been doing research in Mount St.
Helens for more than 10 years, most re-
cently in the Spirit Lake watershed. If
the Forest Service plan moves forward,
his work, along with that of more than a
dozen professors and graduate students,
would be impacted.
Gawel argued the Forest Service could
avoid impacting his and others’ research
by using helicopters for aerial transport of
crews, building materials and equipment.
The Forest Service says it considered
helicopter transport, but it rejected the
idea because of weather-related safety
risks.
The agency determined this plan
strikes the right balance between public
safety and scientific pursuits. It plans to
begin work this spring.
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CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Mule leads hikers to its
injured owner — before
disappearing into woods
BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
On Sunday, a mule led a pair
of hikers through a Clackamas
County state park to the spot
where its injured owner had
fallen earlier in the afternoon.
Then it disappeared into the
forest.
The Clackamas County Sher-
iff’s Office said a 60-year-old
man, whom they have not pub-
licly identified, was riding his
mule on trails at Milo McIver
State Park, when they believe he
fell off and hurt himself.
The mule began walking
alone on the trail until it found
two people hiking, said Sgt.
Marcus Mendoza, then led
them back to the injured man.
One of the hikers who found
the mule, Doug Calvert, said
he and his wife were on foot
on a popular equestrian trail
around noon when they saw
what they thought was a horse
walking toward them.
As they got closer, they real-
ized the animal was a mule, and
it was alone and watching them.
“It kept stopping and look-
ing back to make sure we were
following it,” Calvert said in an
interview Sunday night. “So
we started going faster, and it
picked up speed. Eventually we
got within view of the gentle-
man who had fallen.”
Calvert said as soon as the
mule led them to its fallen
owner, it walked back into some
bushes and kept its distance.
Calvert said he focused on
tending to the injured man and
stayed away from the mule to
avoid spooking it. He called the
park ranger’s office and, failing
to reach anyone, called 911.
In the meantime, the mule
went back on the trail. It hasn’t
been found since.
Calvert said he’s not sure
why the man fell off the mule.
He said the trails are in rea-
“It kept stopping and
looking back to make sure
we were following it. So we
started going faster, and it
picked up speed. Eventually
we got within view of the
gentleman who had fallen.”
— Doug Calvert,
a hiker at Milo McIver State Park
in Clackamas County
sonable condition but were
only recently reopened after
closures from the February ice
storm. Sunday afternoon was
also fairly windy, he said, and
there is still debris on the trails.
He said medics arrived
shortly after he called and be-
gan loading the man onto a
gurney. Calvert said the man
initially seemed to be in mild
shock, but he seemed to be
more cognizant as medics car-
ried him away.
Mendoza said he did not
have an update on the man’s
condition.
As for the mule, Calvert said
he heard some local equestrian
groups had been out looking
for it later Sunday afternoon.
“He seemed very deter-
mined to get us to follow him,”
he said.
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