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Around the world with Carl Lino
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One trip that stands out to him
was his journey to Antarctica.
“Antarctica is really a unique
place, a little nippy,” he said, adding
the temperature wasn’t too cold but
the 70 to 90 mile per hour “breeze”
cooled things off.
Traveling isn’t always easy for
Lino, though. He struggles to breathe
because of his COPD and has to carry
an oxygen tank.
He said the his worst experience
traveling was when he went to Santia-
go, Chile, in February
and his nebulizer — a
device that adminis-
ters medications to
the lungs — broke.
Lack of oxygen, a
language barrier and
a three-day fl ight plan Carl Lino
that took him on an
accidental tour of the country during a
snowstorm made for a rough trip.
“I was really hurting,” he said.
His favorite trip was to China,
where he visited the Terracotta Army
and Tienanmen Square.
When visiting the facility that
housed the terracotta sculptures, he
was blown away by how large it was.
“All of John Day would fi t inside,”
he said.
Likewise, he was amazed by the
square, which had 1.2 million people
in it when he visited during former
chairman of the Communist Party of
China Mao Zedong’s birthday.
Despite all this travel, Lino always
returns to John Day. It’s because of the
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Others reportedly being
considered are: Oklahoma
Gov. Mary Fallin, former
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Lu-
cas Oil co-founder Forrest Lu-
cas and former Colorado Rep.
Bob Beauprez.
McMorris Rodgers rep-
resents Eastern Washington’s
5th Congressional District,
which contains large sections
of land owned and managed
by the federal government.
She has been a longtime advo-
cate of increased use of fed-
eral land, including expand-
ed timber harvests and more
drilling for oil and gas.
She’s a co-sponsor of the
Emergency Wildfi re and For-
est Management Act, which
would streamline the envi-
ronmental impact studies for
federal forest lands, making
it easier for lumber compa-
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EUROPE: While visiting Europe, Lino played golf on one of the oldest courses in the
world, St. Andrews. The course regularly hosts the British Open.
NORTH AMERICA:
“John Day isn’t a
place; it’s a way
of life,” he said.
“That’s what brings
us back.”
NORTH
AMERICA
EUROPE
AFRICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
SOUTH AMERICA: Lino has
been all over the South American
continent, but what stood out to him
the most was the upbeat dancing
and nightlife in Buenos Aires.
AFRICA: Lino went
from Gibraltar into
Morocco where he
enjoyed the window
shopping and local
wares and clothing.
ANTARCTICA: “Antarctica is really a unique
place, a little nippy,” he said, adding the tem-
perature wasn’t too cold, it was just the 70 to
90 mile an hour “breeze” that cooled things
off at the southern Palmer Station.
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA: While
visiting Australia,
Lino was impressed
with the architecture
of the Sydney Opera
House and Sydney
Harbor.
support of the community that comes
together when someone needs them
most, he said. They came together
when his wife died fi ve years ago and
when his daughter was run over by a
nies to thin them and harder
for opponents to block those
sales.
Earlier this year, she
sidestepped the debate over
whether the catastrophic
wildfi res Washington and
other Western states have ex-
perienced in recent years can
be linked to climate change.
Appearing in Spokane a day
after Democratic Gov. Jay In-
slee had linked fi res over the
last three summers to hotter,
drier summers from climate
change and carbon emissions,
McMorris Rodgers instead
said the federal government
should focus on better forest
management.
“Clearly, we have a lot of
trees that are dead, diseased,
bug infested, and that needs to
be addressed,” she said.
Asked whether man-made
climate change was a threat,
and whether she would sup-
port laws limiting greenhouse
gas production, McMorris
Rodgers didn’t directly an-
For The Holidays
car, breaking 37 bones.
“John Day isn’t a place; it’s a way
of life,” he said. “That’s what brings us
back.”
Lino said he will keep traveling
swer the question. She said
policies promoting clean ener-
gy should be weighed against
their economic impact, but
didn’t address climate change
in her answer.
The conservative Wash-
ington Policy Center said she
would be a good choice be-
cause of her years of work on
land issues.
“She has seen fi rsthand the
environmental damage that
comes from neglect of federal
lands and will be a great stew-
ard of our parks and federal
lands,” said Todd Myers, the
director of that group’s Envi-
ronmental Policy Center.
News media reports that
a McMorris Rodgers ap-
pointment could be imminent
prompted sharp criticism
from environmental groups.
The congresswoman sup-
ports “selling off our public
lands to the highest bidder and
opening them to drilling, min-
ing and logging,” Sierra Club
Executive Director Michael
Brune said in a prepared state-
ment. “It’s clear that McMorris
Rodgers would jeopardize the
future of our public lands if ap-
pointed as interior secretary.”
Brian Sweeney of the West-
ern Environmental Law Center
said she “represents a threat to
public lands, endangered spe-
cies and our clean energy fu-
ture.” Kate Colwell, for Friends
of the Earth, contended she
would “wield a rubber stamp
for the fossil fuel industry” be-
cause of past support of greater
drilling.
Also quick to issue state-
ments of opposition were the
Environmental Defense Fund,
the Center for Western Pri-
orities, American Rivers, the
Natural Resources Defense
Council, Back Country Hunt-
ers and Anglers, EarthJustice,
and Fuse Washington, a coa-
lition of progressive organiza-
tions. Representatives of re-
sourced-based industries were
supportive.
Luke Popovich, of the Na-
tional Mining Association,
said McMorris Rodgers has
a “deep knowledge of public
lands issues” and the experi-
ence of working on them in
Congress, which is rare for an
interior secretary. The min-
ing industry hopes she would
be able to focus on multiple
uses of federal lands and bet-
ter balance the needs to protect
resources and the economic
costs of doing that.
“She understands the nit-
ty-gritty of the laws that ap-
ply,” Popovich said.
Ducks Unlimited support-
ed the nomination, with Chief
Executive Offi cer Dale Hall,
a former director of the Fish
Call to make an
appointment first.
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and Wildlife Service, saying
he looked forward to work-
ing with McMorris Rodgers
because “she understands our
issues.”
Travis Joseph, president
of the American Forest Re-
source Council, praised the
possible nomination and de-
scribed McMorris Rodgers as
someone who would “bring
back some common sense”
to the management of federal
lands.
“She’s been working on
these issues for years,” said
Joseph, whose organization
represents loggers, mill own-
ers and other members of the
forest industry in Washington
and four other Western states.
“There are millions of acres of
federal forest lands that face a
crisis.”
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and chief executive offi cer of
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Washington Rep. Cathy
McMorris Rodgers
kicks off a meeting with
farmers and industry
members about falling
number concerns Sept.
2 in Colfax, Washington.
Association, said the group
welcomes the prospect that she
would use her knowledge to
bring responsible stewardship
to public lands: “That foun-
dation is critical to future pol-
icy that impacts our member
companies that manufacture
the forest and paper products
Americans use every day.”
The Center for Responsive
Politics said McMorris Rodg-
ers was the sixth largest recipi-
ent of money from the Forestry
and Forest Products Industry
in 2016, with a total of $83,950
in contributions. That’s more
than Donald Trump, Hillary
Clinton or Sen. Patty Murray,
D-Wash., received.
The Interior Department
has about 70,000 employees
and a budget of more than
$20 billion. It oversees a wide
range of agencies, including
the bureaus of Indian Affairs,
Land Management, Reclama-
tion and Safety and Environ-
mental Enforcement, as well
as the National Park Service,
Fish and Wildlife Service and
the Geological Survey.
McMorris Rodgers, 47, has
been in government since grad-
uating from Pensacola (Flori-
da) Christian College in 1990.
She started as a legislative aide
to state Rep. Bob Morton after
running his re-election cam-
paign in Northeast Washing-
ton’s 7th Legislative District,
and was appointed to his state
House seat in 1994 when Mor-
ton was appointed to the state
Senate. She rose to the rank of
House minority leader and in
2004 won the hotly contested
race for an open seat in the 5th
Congressional District.
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“I’ve got to wait and see if the doc-
tor will let me,” he said. “If the doctor
says I can go, boy I’m gonna go!”
All he will have to do is choose
between Europe or Alaska.
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as long as he can. He recently had to
cancel two trips, a river voyage from
Amsterdam to Budapest and a cruise
to Alaska. However, he’s hopeful his
traveling days aren’t over.
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island nation as being like Oregon,
but with more sheep.
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where he saw the terracotta
army in Lintong, Xi’an, Shaanxi.
While visiting the facility that
housed the terracotta warriors
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large it was. “All of John Day
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