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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Tuesday, June 29:
Deschutes County cases: 10,095 (7 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,302 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,389 (7 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 208,446 (230 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,770 (7 new deaths)
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(May 20)
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90
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First African American named to lead U.S. Forest Service
Randy Moore is the regional forester for a
region covering California and Hawaii
BY MATTHEW DALY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Veteran
forester Randy Moore has been
named chief of the U.S. For-
est Service, the first African
American to lead the agency in
its 116-year history.
Moore, 66, replaces Vicki
Christiansen, who has led the
agency since 2018. The Forest
Service, a division of the Agri-
culture Department, oversees
193 million acres of public
lands in 154 national forests
and 20 national grasslands.
Moore has served as regional
forester in the California-based
Pacific Southwest Region since
2007, where he has responsi-
bility for 18 national forests in
California and Hawaii.
He will take over from
Christiansen as head of the
30,000-employee agency upon
her retirement July 26. Chris-
tiansen and Moore will col-
laborate on what is already
shaping up as a severe wild-
fire season in the West, where
an epic drought, complicated
by climate change, has made
putting out fires more chal-
lenging and strained firefight-
ing resources throughout the
region.
In the Pacific Northwest,
where an extended heat wave
has triggered record-break-
ing temperatures in Oregon
and Washington state, fire
crews have been positioned in
high-risk areas, and cities and
counties have imposed burn
bans.
Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack, who appointed Moore,
called him “a catalyst for
change and creativity” in car-
rying out the Forest Service’s
mission to sustain the nation’s
forests.
As a regional forester, Moore
has been on the forefront of
climate change, most notably
leading the region’s response to
the dramatic increase in cata-
strophic wildfires in California
over the last decade, Vilsack
said. “His proven track record
Baker City mayor
announces bid for
Oregon governor
children back in school, fight
for medical freedoms, pro-
Baker City Mayor Kerry
McQuisten is aiming for a
tect our individual constitu-
much higher polit-
tional rights, prevent
ical office : Oregon
criminals from burn-
governor.
ing and destroying our
McQuisten, 49,
once-flourishing cities,
who is a Republican,
remind Oregonians of
has announced a
their inherent pioneer
gubernatorial cam-
spirit, and prevent the
paign for 2022.
kind of rule we’ve seen
Oregon’s current
from ever happening
McQuisten
governor, Democrat
again.”
Kate Brown, can’t run in 2022
McQuisten was elected to
due to term limits.
the Baker City Council in No-
On her campaign website — vember 2020.
kerrymcquisten.com — Mc-
Her fellow councilors
Quisten writes: “Campaigns
elected her as mayor in Janu-
always claim that change is
ary 2021 (in Baker City’s form
needed. This time, it couldn’t
of government, elected coun-
be more true! Oregonians
cilors, not voters, choose the
need a leader who will get our
mayor).
Baker City Herald
Jacquelyn Martin/AP file
Veteran forester Randy Moore, shown here in 2015, has been named
chief of the U.S. Forest Service, the first African American to lead the
agency in its 116-year history.
of supporting and developing
employees and putting com-
munities at the center of the
Forest Service’s work positions
him well to lead the agency
into the future at this critical
time in our country,’’ Vilsack
said in a statement.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
D-Calif., praised Moore’s selec-
tion as Forest Service chief.
“California understands all
too well the challenges facing
our forests and I’m glad a Cal-
ifornian will head efforts to
tackle them,” she said.
Arkansas Rep. Bruce
Westerman, the top Repub-
lican on the House Natural
Resources Committee, called
Moore “a seasoned profes-
sional,’’ adding: “I sincerely
hope we can work together on
mitigating catastrophic wild-
fires, opening up our national
forests to sustainable lumber
harvesting, making forests
more resilient against insects
and diseases and much more.’’
Before heading the Pacific
Southwest region, Moore was
regional forester in the Wis-
consin-based Eastern Region,
where he oversaw forests in 20
states.
Moore started his federal ca-
reer in 1978 at USDA’s Natural
Resources Conservation Ser-
vice in North Dakota. He has
worked at national forests in
Colorado, North Carolina and
Missouri, a national grassland
in Kansas and as an adminis-
trator in Washington.
Moore’s appointment comes
as Congress and the Biden ad-
ministration push to increase
firefighter pay and convert
at least 1,000 seasonal wild-
land firefighters to year-round
workers as fires have grown
more severe. President Joe
Biden last week called for an
increase in pay for federal fire-
fighters, who start as low as
$13 an hour.
“That’s a ridiculously low
salary to pay federal firefight-
ers,” Biden said. “That’s going
to end in my administration.’’
‘Bailey’s Bill’ now law after tough journey
BY KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
With several strokes of her
pen, Gov. Kate Brown signed
“Bailey’s Bill” into law.
The bill, named for Bai-
ley Munck, a student at
Weston-McEwen High School
in Athena, increases penalties
for criminal sexual contact
with an underage victim if
the offender was the victim’s
teacher. Munck, now 17, testi-
fied to the Oregon Senate and
House judiciary committees,
telling of sexual abuse in 2019
during a volleyball road trip
by Andrew DeYoe, an English
teacher and also a scorekeeper
for the volleyball team.
Senate Bill 649, despite at-
tracting no vigorous objec-
tions, nearly ended up in the
patio
world
place where bills go to quietly
die when they don’t make it
out of committee.
The bill puts teachers in
the same category as coaches
when it comes to sentencing
for crimes of sexual abuse in-
volving a student. Previously,
coaches could face a maxi-
mum sentence of five years if
convicted of sexually abusing
a student, while teachers were
not specifically mentioned.
“What is the significant
difference between a teacher
and a coach?” Munck asked
senators during the hearing.
“Do coaches somehow carry
more authority than a teacher
might?”
After pleading guilty,
Munck’s abuser spent only
two days in jail and received
five years probation. He did
not have to register as a sex
offender. If he had been her
coach rather than her teacher,
he could have received up to
five years in prison.
The bill first ran into prob-
lems getting a hearing in
the Senate, but it eventually
passed. When it got to the
House the bill hit another wall,
and members of the House Ju-
diciary Committee dusted off
a seldom-used rule to force a
hearing. When the bill reached
the House floor, it passed
unanimously. On June 23,
Gov. Brown signed it into law.
Munck heard the news Sat-
urday.
“I felt really happy and sort
of relieved,” she said. “There
were so many obstacles.”
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