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The BulleTin • SaTurday, June 5, 2021 A3 TODAY LOCAL, STATE & REGION It’s Saturday, June 5, the 156th day of 2021. There are 209 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1967, war erupted in the Middle East as Israel, anticipating a possi- ble attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of pre-emptive airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force; Syria, Jordan and Iraq imme- diately entered the conflict. In 1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States. In 1912, U.S. Marines landed in Cuba at the order of President Wil- liam Howard Taft to ensure order and protect U.S. interests. In 1917, about 10 million Ameri- can men between the ages of 21 and 31 began registering for the draft in World War I. In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars. In 1964, The Rolling Stones per- formed the first concert of their first U.S. tour at Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California. In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in Califor- nia’s Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los An- geles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS. In 1999, jazz and pop singer Mel Torme died in Los Angeles at 73. In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City home. Smart was found alive by police in a Salt Lake sub- urb in March 2003. One kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, is serving a prison sentence; the other, Wanda Barzee, was released in Septem- ber 2018. In 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at 93 after a long struggle with Alzhei- mer’s disease. In 2006, more than 50 National Flower near mine should be protected, agency says BY SCOTT SONNER The Associated Press RENO, Nev. — An ex- tremely rare wildflower that grows only in Nevada’s High Desert where an Australian mining company wants to dig for lithium should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday. The agency outlined its intention to propose list- ing Tiehm’s buckwheat as a threatened or endangered species as part of its belated, 12-month review of a listing petition conservationists filed in 2019. A federal judge said last month the finding was six months overdue and ordered the agency to render a decision within weeks. The conclusion announced on Thursday that federal pro- tection is warranted could jeopardize Ioneer Ltd.’s plans to build the mine halfway be- tween Reno and Las Vegas. It also ups the ante in an early test of the Biden admin- istration’s ability to make good on promises to protect public lands and their native species while at the same time pursu- ing an ambitious clean energy agenda that includes bolstering production of lithium needed for electric car batteries. Environmentalists say the delicate, 6-inch-tall wildflower with yellow blooms is on the brink of extinction with fewer than 30,000 individual plants remaining. Ioneer acknowledges Tiehm’s buckwheat hasn’t been documented anywhere else in the world but insists it can co-exist with the mine. Tiehm’s buck- wheat is a rare wildflower in the Nevada desert. Environ- mentalists say the delicate, 6-inch-tall wild- flower is on the brink of extinc- tion with fewer than 30,000 in- dividual plants remaining. Patrick Donnelly/ Center for Biological Diversity via AP Nevertheless, the looming listing presents the biggest regulatory hurdle to date for what would be only the second large-scale lithium mine oper- ating in the United States. Under the court order, the service now has until Sept. 30 to submit a formal rule pro- posing protection of the plant as a threatened or endangered species. A 60-day public com- ment period will follow. The Center for Biologi- cal Diversity first petitioned for federal listing in October 2019 and weeks later filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to block con- struction of the mine at Rhyo- lite Ridge west of Tonopah in the Silver Peak Range about 20 miles east of the California line and 200 miles southeast of Reno — where Tesla Motors’ largest lithium battery factory is located. “Tiehm’s buckwheat shouldn’t be wiped off the face of the earth by an open-pit mine,” Patrick Donnelly, the center’s Nevada director, said Thursday. “The service step- ping in to save the plant from extinction is the right call.” Ioneer Managing Director Bernard Rowe said Thursday they expected the warranted finding and share the Fish and Wildlife Service’s “commit- ment to protect and preserve Tiehm’s buckwheat in its hab- itat.” The tiny population of Tiehm’s buckwheat is found on 21 acres spread across 3 square miles at the mine site. Scientists say the plant plays an integral role in the desert ecosystem by stabilizing soils, dispersing seeds and creating a sort of oasis that provides rare food and moisture for bees and other pollinators. The service said a 2019 sur- vey estimated the plant’s global population totaled 43,921 — all at the mine site. But it said in Thursday’s finding that an unprecedented rodent attack during severe drought last summer damaged or destroyed more than half the plants. It said that herbivory com- bined with the potential im- pact from the mining project would reduce the flower’s pop- ulation by an estimated 70% to 88% — “or from 43,921 indi- viduals to roughly 5,289-8,696 individuals.” Ioneer is proposing to sal- vage most of the remaining plants by transplanting them to another location, the service said. “However, we are uncer- tain whether the salvage op- eration will succeed because current research indicates that Tiehm’s buckwheat is a soil specialist, that adjacent unoc- cupied sites are not suitable for all early life-history stages, and there has been no testing and multiyear monitoring on the feasibility of successfully transplanting the species,” the agency said. Other threats to the plant in- clude road-building, off-road travel, livestock grazing and cli- mate change, the service said. Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Pres- ident George W. Bush’s crackdown on illegal immigration. In 2013, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them sleeping women and children, pleaded guilty to murder at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washing- ton, to avoid the death penalty; he was sentenced to life in prison. Ten years ago: Rafael Nadal won his record-equaling sixth French Open title, beating Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-1. Five years ago: Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presi- dential primary, putting her within striking distance of capturing her party’s nomination. David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan journalist, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed in an insurgent ambush while on assignment. One year ago: Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in police practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death; officers would also now be required to intervene any time they saw unauthorized force by another officer. City workers and volunteers painted “Black Lives Matter” in enormous yellow let- ters for two blocks on the street leading to the White House in a sign of local leaders’ embrace of the protest movement. Today’s Birthdays: Actor-singer Bill Hayes is 96. Broadcast journal- ist Bill Moyers is 87. Former Cana- dian Prime Minister Joe Clark is 82. Author Dame Margaret Drabble is 82. Author Ken Follett is 72. Fi- nancial guru Suze Orman is 70. Jazz musician Peter Erskine is 67. Jazz musician Kenny G is 65. Rock singer Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs) is 65. Actor Beth Hall is 63. Actor Jeff Garlin is 59. Actor Karen Sillas is 58. Actor Ron Livingston is 54. Singer Brian McKnight is 52. Actor Mark Wahlberg is 50. 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