Baker City Herald Daily Paper 09-25-15

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September 25, 2015

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A special good day to Herald subscriber Judy Lutz of Baker City.

Baker City looking for applicants to fill one vacancy on the City Council

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Baker City is looking to fill the vacancy on the City Council created when Ben Merrill resigned earlier this month. The City will accept applications until Oct. 9 at10 a.m. The individual who is appointed by a majority vote of the City Council will serve through December of 2016. Although Merrill's term continued through the end of 2018, according to the city charter a councilor appointed to fill a vacancy serves only through the end of the year of the next general election. To be eligible to serve as a councilor, a person must be a registered voter in Oregon and have lived within the city for 12 months immediately preceding the appointment. To apply go to www. bakercity.com to download and complete the City Councilor application, and submit a letter of interest to Luke Yeaton at City Hall. Applications can be returned to: Attn: Luke Yeaton, 1655 First St., Baker City OR, 97814 More information is available by calling Yeaton at 541-524-2033 or by email at lyeaton@ bakercity.com.

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Nellie Langlitz celebrated her 105th birthday on Wednesday.

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By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald

Nellie Bernice Boyer Langlitz grew up with no electricity, an outhouse and a wood-burning stove her mom used to bake bread every other day. "I couldn't get home fast enough to get that crust and homemade butter," she says, smiling at the memory of that treat. Nellie was born in 1910 at Hereford, and her familymoved to a ranch on Denny Creek when she was 1 month old. In all her 105 years, she's never lived outside of Baker County. Nellie celebrated her 105th birthday Wednesday, and an open house celebration is planned for 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Missouri Flat Grange. Cake and refreshmentswillbe served.

Local, 3A A free workshop is set for Oct. 15 in Baker City to help private landowners whose property was burned this summer to get tips on how to deal with the aftermath of the worst fire season in Baker County history. "After the Fire: Assessing and Restoring Your Forest and Rangeland" is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will meet at the OSU Baker County Extension Office at 2600 East St., then carpool to several sites. Pre-register by Oct. 9 by calling the Extension Office at 541-523-6418.

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Students Gavin Stecher, left, and Zane Bishop, both from South Baker Intermediate, head for the open meadows to catch bugs during a class about insects at Outdoor School Monday afternoon. Sixth-grade students from Baker City, Haines, Keating and North Powder studied various courses this week at Phillips Park, west of town.

By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com

Give a kid a net to sweep through the grass, an empty jar andan open fi eld and watch the fun begin. That's what Janice Cowan is doing this week as she steps away from her desk at the Baker County Extension Office to travel to Outdoor School to teach sixth-graders aboutinsects. After a discussion about insecthabitat,their stages of growth and the benefits they provideat the bottom ofthe food chain, the students took to the field Monday afternoon.

Aaliyah Jordan, a North Powder sixth-grader, and Abby Niehaus, a sixth-grader at South Baker Intermediate School, said the insect class was their favorite of the first day at Outdoor School. Aaliyah said she enjoyed the class"because ofthe

dents on their search, Cowan alerted them that they might catch a praying mantis because others had been caught throughout the day. "A praying mantis can move its head all around and is practically all eyeballs," Cowan told her students. A photograph included at her display table showed the strength of a praying mantis's front legs. "The praying mantis has a cicadain itsfrontlegsand is eating its head off," Cowan pointedout to the class.

bugs." "Getting the bugs," was the best part of the day for Abby, who was the only one in her group to sweep a praying mantis into her net. "They're cool; they're interesting," she said of the bugs she gathered for the day. Before sending the stu-

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accepts plan By Joshua Dillen ]dillen©bakercityherald.com

Baker County finally has a Natural Resource Plan. After failing to adopt the plan, which the Baker County Natural Resource Committee iNRACl has worked on for several months, the County Commission unanimously accepted it Thursday at a special meeting. At a previous meeting that Commissioner Mark Bennett could not attend, Commission Chair Bill Harvey and Commissioner Tim Kerns could not agree on a motion to adopt the plan. See Commission/Page 6A

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$cientist:$alvaoeIoooinoheneficial,if dsneright By Pat Caldwell For the Baker City Herald

A recent U.S. Forest Service study contends that logging after a wildfire can decrease surface fuels. Yet the key to successful post-fire loggingrevolves around a number

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of factors, including how the logging operationsareconducted,according to one of the authors of the study. David L. Peterson, a research scientistwith the ForestServicebased in Seattle, is one of the authors of the report:"Post-fire logging reduces

surface woody fuels up to four decades following wildfire." Whether salvage logging helps or harms aforestisdirectly connected to how the logging is carried out, Peterson said. The study addressed the impact,

magnitude and timing of post-fire loggingon fuelloads.Thereportdelved into the issue by sampling surface fuels in 68 blazes between 1970-2007 in Eastern Oregon and Washington. SeeSalvagelPage GA

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