The BulleTin • Tuesday, sepTemBer 21, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 21, the
264th day of 2021. There are 101
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo
crashed into Charleston, South
Carolina (the storm was blamed
for 56 deaths in the Caribbean
and 29 in the United States).
Twenty-one students in Alton,
Texas, died when their school
bus, hit by a soft-drink delivery
truck, careened into a wa-
ter-filled pit.
In 1792, the French National
Convention voted to abolish the
monarchy.
In 1912, magician Harry Houd-
ini first publicly performed his
“Water Torture Cell” trick at the
Circus Busch in Berlin.
In 1948, Milton Berle made his
debut as permanent host of
“The Texaco Star Theater” on
NBC-TV.
In 1961, the first Boeing CH-47
Chinook military helicopter
made its first hovering flight.
In 1981, the Senate unanimous-
ly confirmed the nomination of
Sandra Day O’Connor to become
the first female justice on the
Supreme Court.
In 1982, Amin Gemayel, broth-
er of Lebanon’s assassinated
president-elect, Bashir Gemayel,
was himself elected president.
National Football League players
began a 57-day strike, their first
regular-season walkout ever.
In 1985, in North Korea and
South Korea, family members
who had been separated for de-
cades were allowed to visit each
other as both countries opened
their borders in an unprecedent-
ed family-reunion program.
In 1987, NFL players called a
strike, mainly over the issue of
free agency. (The 24-day walk-
out prompted football owners
to hire replacement players.)
In 1996, President Bill Clinton
signed the Defense of Marriage
Act denying federal recognition
of same-sex marriages, a day
after saying the law should not
be used as an excuse for discrim-
ination, violence or intimidation
against gays and lesbians. (Al-
though never formally repealed,
DoMA was effectively over-
turned by U.S. Supreme Court
decisions in 2013 and 2015.)
In 2001, Congress again opened
the federal coffers to those
harmed by terrorism, providing
$15 billion to the airline industry,
which was suffering mounting
economic losses since the Sept.
11 attacks.
In 2008, baseball said farewell
to the original Yankee Stadium
as the Bronx Bombers defeated
the Baltimore Orioles 7-3.
Ten years ago: Josh Fattal and
Shane Bauer, two Americans
jailed in Iran as spies, left Tehran
for the Gulf state of Oman, clos-
ing a high-profile drama that
brought more than two years of
hope and heartbreak for their
families. Alternative rock group
R.E.M. announced on its website
that it had “decided to call it a
day as a band.”
Five years ago: Outraged
Republican and Democratic
lawmakers grilled Heather
Bresch, the CEO of pharmaceu-
tical company Mylan, about the
significant cost increase of its
life-saving EpiPens; defending
her company’s business prac-
tices, Bresch told the House
Oversight and Government
Reform Committee she wished
the company had “better an-
ticipated the magnitude and
acceleration” of the rising prices
for some families.
One year ago: President Donald
Trump met at the White House
with Amy Coney Barrett, as the
conservative judge emerged as
an early favorite for the Supreme
Court seat left vacant by the
death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Las Vegas Raiders, playing
their first game a new $2 billion
stadium following their move
from Oakland, defeated the New
Orleans Saints 34-24; there were
no fans in attendance because
of the coronavirus.
Today’s Birthdays: Author-co-
median Fannie Flagg is 80. Au-
thor Stephen King is 74. Basket-
ball Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore is
72. Actor-comedian Bill Murray
is 71. Former Australian Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd is 64. Movie
producer-writer Ethan Coen
is 64. Actor Nancy Travis is 60.
Actor Rob Morrow is 59. Retired
MLB All-Star Cecil Fielder is 58.
Actor-talk show host Ricki Lake
is 53. Rapper Dave (De La Soul)
is 53. Actor Billy Porter is 52.
Actor Rob Benedict is 51. Actor
Luke Wilson is 50. Actor Paulo
Costanzo is 43. Actor Bradford
Anderson is 42. TV personality
Nicole Richie is 40. Actor Ahna
O’Reilly is 37. Rapper Wale is 37.
R&B singer Jason Derulo is 35.
Actor Ryan Guzman is 34. Actor
Nikolas Brino is 23.
— Associated Press
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
ODFW kills 3 more wolves in Lookout Mountain pack
BY JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife employees, fir-
ing from a helicopter, shot and
killed three wolves from the
Lookout Mountain pack in
eastern Baker County Friday
morning, including the pack’s
breeding male.
In addition to the breeding
male, ODFW employees killed
a yearling male, born in the
spring of 2020, and a 5-month-
old pup from the pack’s spring
2021 litter of seven.
The wolves were killed the
day after ODFW announced
that the agency intended to
kill up to four wolves from the
pack, which has killed at least
six head of cattle, and injured
two others, since mid July.
According to a press release
from ODFW, agency employees
saw six wolves during the Fri-
day helicopter flight.
The three wolves that were
killed were near a dead calf, and
on private land. ODFW biolo-
gists are investigating to deter-
mine whether wolves killed the
calf. “Initial indications point to
another depredation” by wolves,
according to the press release.
ODFW announced on
Thursday that agency work-
ers intended to kill up to four
wolves from pack, including the
breeding male. ODFW is not
targeting the pack’s breeding fe-
male. In addition, four ranchers
who have lost cattle to the pack
are authorized to kill up to two
other wolves total.
ODFW estimates the pack
consisted of nine wolves, a
count prior to Friday’s killing of
three wolves.
ODFW employees killed two
other pups from the 2021 litter
on Aug. 1.
By targeting the breeding
male, ODFW hopes to still al-
low the breeding female to raise
any remaining juveniles. Re-
ducing the number of juveniles
the breeding female will need
to feed increases the likelihood
that some will survive, accord-
ing to a press release from the
agency.
The group Defenders of
Wildlife criticized ODFW’s de-
cision to kill the wolves.
“Whenever wolves are put
on the chopping block, it is a
tragedy,” said Sristi Kamal, se-
nior northwest representative
for Defenders of Wildlife. “Le-
thal control is never a long-term
solution and any pups that will
be killed under these permits
did not even participate in the
hunts. There are better solu-
tions than just killing wolves to
cultivate social acceptance. In-
vestments in proactive non-le-
thal efforts can do much more
for promoting coexistence.”
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK
4 famous giant
sequoia trees
saved from fire
The Associated Press
THREE RIVERS, Calif. —
Four famous giant sequoias
were not harmed by a wildfire
that reached the edge of Giant
Forest in California’s Sequoia
National Park, authorities said.
The Four Guardsmen, a
group of trees that form a natu-
ral entryway on the road to the
forest, were successfully pro-
tected from the KNP Complex
fire by the removal of nearby
vegetation and by wrapping
fire-resistant material around
the bases of the trees, the fire-
fighting management team
said in a statement Sunday.
The KNP Complex began
as two lightning-sparked fires
that eventually merged and has
scorched about 23,740 acres in
the heart of sequoia country on
the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada.
There was no word yet on
the full extent of damage in
several other groves reached
by a separate blaze, the Windy
Fire, in the Giant Sequoia Na-
tional Monument area of Se-
quoia National Forest and the
Tule River Indian Reservation.
The Windy Fire has burned
through the Peyrone and Red
Hill groves, as well as a portion
of the Long Meadow Grove
along the Trail of 100 Giants.
A portion of one giant se-
quoia along the trail was con-
Noah Berger/AP; InciWeb
ABOVE: Firefighters battle the Windy Fire as it burns in the Trail of 100
Giants grove of Sequoia National Forest, California, on Sunday.
LEFT: Firefighters pose with the General Sherman Tree after wrapping
it with structural wrap in this photo posted to InciWeb on Saturday.
firmed to have burned, said
Thanh Nguyen, a spokesman
for the fire command.
Fire crews with hoses and
water-dropping helicopters
were working to limit dam-
age to the giant sequoias in the
groves, where there are also
other types of trees.
Sequoias have adapted to fire
and can benefit if the flames
are low intensity.
The Windy Fire has
scorched more than 24,960
acres and was just 4% con-
tained.
The KNP Complex forced
the evacuation of Sequoia
National Park last week, and
on Sunday much of adjacent
Kings Canyon National Park
was closed. Visitors to ar-
eas that were still open were
warned of hazardous air qual-
ity due to smoke.
A large area of Northern
California was under a red
flag warning for extreme fire
danger Monday due to dry off-
shore winds that can raise fire
danger.
The warning did not extend
into Southern California, but
forecasters said there would be
weak Santa Ana winds and sig-
nificant warming — elevating
the risk of wildfires.
Historic drought tied to cli-
mate change is making wild-
fires harder to fight. It has
killed millions of trees in Cal-
ifornia alone. Scientists say
climate change has made the
West much warmer and drier
in the past 30 years and will
continue to make weather
more extreme and wildfires
more frequent and destructive.
More than 7,000 wildfires in
California this year have dam-
aged or destroyed more than
3,000 homes and other build-
ings and torched well over 1.92
million acres of land, according
to the California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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