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TO PLACE AN AD
STATE & REGIONAL BRIEFING
LAKE COUNTY
Fire quadruples in size,
topping 86,000 acres
BY JAIMIE DING
The Oregonian
A wildfire spreading rap-
idly in the Fremont-Winema
National Forest has more than
quadrupled its size in two days.
The Cougar Peak Fire was
discovered Tuesday afternoon
about 15 miles northwest of
Lakeview, a rural south-cen-
tral Oregon town and the Lake
County seat. The blaze grew to
about 20,000 acres by Wednes-
day night, according to the
U.S. Forest Service’s Lakeview
Ranger District.
Then, by Friday morning, it
had grown to 83,339 acres.
The fire had burned over
86,000 acres as of Sunday and
was completely uncontained,
and its cause is under investi-
gation.
Swaths of the county —
from the national forest in
the west to U.S. Highway 395
in the east — remain under
Level 3 “go now” evacuation
orders. And an American Red
Cross evacuation center was
established Thursday night at
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints along High-
way 395 north of the Lakeview
town center, the Lake County
Sheriff’s Office said.
The fire is growing faster
than anticipated, making it
difficult to update evacuation
levels, the sheriff’s office said.
Eight structures have been
threatened, but none has been
destroyed, according to the
Northwest Interagency Coor-
dination Center.
Law enforcement officials
are going door-to-door in af-
Asian giant hornet nest destroyed in Washington
Officials say they’ve destroyed a second nest of Asian giant
hornets found in northwestern Washington state this year and
are preparing to take down a third.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture said in
a Facebook post that a team eradicated the nest Saturday in
northern Whatcom County, near the town of Blaine along the
Canadian border.
It said a third nest this season has
been located and that planning is
underway to eradicate it.
The nests have been within a
few miles of each other. The first
nest this year was destroyed in
August. The hornets were first de-
tected in the U.S. in 2019 in What-
com County.
Asian giant hornets are an invasive
pest not native to the U.S. They are the world’s largest hor-
net at 2 inches long, and a predator of other insects, including
honey bees that pollinate many of the crops in Washington’s
agriculture industry. While not particularly aggressive toward
humans, their sting is extremely painful and repeated stings,
though rare, can kill. They’re sometimes called murder hor-
nets because they prey on other bees.
Mask opponents return to school despite court order
InciWeb/Cougar Peak Fire
The Prineville Interagency Hotshots firefighting crew works on the
Cougar Peak Fire on Wednesday.
fected areas and sending mes-
sages using OR-Alert. The
sheriff’s office asks residents to
keep watch for updates and law
enforcement officers.
Gov. Kate Brown invoked
the Emergency Conflagration
Act on Wednesday, putting the
State Fire Marshal in charge of
battling the fire. And after “sig-
nificant fire activity” Thursday,
early rain was projected to im-
prove firefighting conditions
Friday, fire officials said.
The fire area received a
quarter-inch of rain — a total
Jim Hampton, a fire behav-
ior analyst, said is enough to
end the wildfire season during
some years.
But this is not a “typical sea-
son,” Hampton said: Fuel mois-
tures have been at or near re-
cord lows as the area enters its
second year of drought.
Hampton said the com-
ing week’s sunny weather will
bring renewed risk of dry fuels
like branch wood and conifer
needles catching fire.
Researcher has theories on what’s
happening with cattle mutilations
BY SIERRA DAWN MCCLAIN
Capital Press
In the wake of recent cattle mutilations across
the West, ranchers are asking who — or what —
is responsible.
According to FBI records, thousands of kill-
ings and apparent mutilations of cattle have hap-
pened since the 1970s. In each case, a cow or
bull is found dead with body
parts such as eyes, tongues and
genitals missing.
Ranchers and detectives
have speculated widely about
what’s happening, theorizing
aliens, cult members, prank-
sters or even the CIA could be
Nation
responsible.
The Capital Press sat down
for a Q&A with retired, award-winning Cana-
dian veterinary pathologist Nick Nation, who
has researched the issue and has a theory.
In Alberta, Nation has analyzed the carcasses
of mutilated cattle and, more recently, dismem-
bered house cats. In both cases, he’s come to the
same conclusion: scavenger animals, primarily
coyotes, are responsible.
Q:
You started researching the issue of cattle
mutilation in the 1980s. At the time, you
came to the conclusion that scavengers were re-
sponsible for body part removal. Do you still be-
lieve that?
Yes. I’m still convinced coyotes and occa-
sionally some other species, you know, birds,
A:
skunks, even mice, will do damage to these car-
casses. It’s the bizarre nature of the appearance of
the animal that gets people concerned that there
may be some nefarious activity going on.
Wouldn’t coyotes leave obvious bite marks?
Q:
We hear from ranchers and detectives that
the wounds usually look clean-cut.
That’s common in coyote predation, and it’s
A:
also a feature on the cats we’ve done a study
on. The one thing that makes people think they’re
Protesters returned to the grounds of Skyview High School
in Vancouver, Washington, on Friday, fueled both by recent an-
ti-mask demonstrations and a judge’s attempts to quash them.
At the school, protesters stood with far-right figures such as Joey
Gibson, founder of Patriot Prayer, a group that has attracted rac-
ist and violent followers, and Tusitala “Tiny” Toese. The crowd
grew to around 40 people between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Some in the crowd held signs opposing mask mandates in
Washington schools. Others, including Gibson, said this par-
ticular protest stemmed from the recent court order.
On Tuesday, Clark County Superior Court Judge Suzan Clark
ordered an injunction to prevent rallies and protests “that dis-
rupt education services.” The order was a response to recent, vit-
riolic anti-mask protests near Skyview, including a Sept. 3 pro-
test that included members of the Proud Boys and culminated
with administrators placing three campuses into lockdown. Ac-
cording to the order, such protests can no longer occur within a
mile of any property owned by Vancouver Public Schools. The
district owns roughly 40 properties in the county.
California man presumed dead after jumping cove
A California man who attempted to jump across a wide cove
of frothing water at Cape Perpetua Scenic Area on Thursday is
presumed dead, according to state police.
Steve Allen, 67, of Walnut Creek, California, apparently
tried to hurdle Devil’s Churn, a narrow boiling inlet just off
Highway 101 south of Yachats on the central Oregon coast.
Devil’s Churn, a popular stopping point at Cape Perpetua, is
a somewhat narrow slice in the coastal basalt rock known for
boiling water that kicks up large sprays of waves.
Allen was last observed by rescue agencies unresponsive
prior to losing sight of him, officials said. The U. S. Coast
Guard and other responding agencies suspended their search.
— Bulletin wire reports
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dealing with malicious intent is that they think
they’ve got a surgical-like or even laser-like cut.
What we’ve found in predations known to be from
coyotes scavenging a carcass is they’ll bite and then
pull back, leaving what appears to be a straight-line
cut. There are also little bite marks, but you have to
look closely for them.
do you know the cases you’ve studied
Q: How
have definitely been coyotes?
The incidents were captured on video cam-
A:
era, or we used eyewitness accounts where
the owner saw coyotes mutilating the animals.
Q:
A:
So why is it farmers often don’t find foot-
prints? Shouldn’t there be coyote tracks?
That’s fair game, a fair comment. My expe-
rience is that you seldom get a person bring-
ing in an animal in wintertime saying it was mu-
tilated. And the reason is that the paw prints are
right there in the snow, so (farmers) know what
happened then. In the summer, paw prints aren’t
as easy to spot.
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