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Campfire bans in
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at least Labor Day due
There is onlyone chance to win the first state championship. Seventy-five years ago, a group
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of ’giant-killers’ took the state by storm
to do just that. This is the story ofBend High’s 1940
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Backpacks undergoan evolution
to persistent wildfire
danger. Even with chilly nights expected for the long holiday weekend, the De› schutes and
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Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State Parks, all have
By Hiroko Tabuchi
bans on campfires and other open flames. While rain prompted
New York Times News Service
The inside of Alejan› dro Sarete’s backpack is
the Willamette National
jammed with the objects of
Forest to lift its campfire
a busy student life: smart› phone, USB thumb drive, playing cards, lip balm. Cho Young-Uk’s shoulder bag is
ban earlier this week,
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campfire restrictions in
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ty, have something missing from their stashes: piles of
for the BLM in Prineville.
"Even though we have had cloudy days we ha›
textbooks.
"I don’t really have to car› ry around textbooks any› more, like I used to in high school," said Cho, a soph› omore. All but two of his classes Spanish history and financial accounting› had moved the coursework
ven’t had much measur› able moisture," she said
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Earth’ s tree count comes in at 3 trillion
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"I think fewer people have them, for sure," Sarete said. "I actually still like
physical paper, but I’m an exception." As students increasingly go back to school with gad› gets instead of textbooks, and no longer need huge backpacksto haulthem around, backpack-mak›
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rethinking not only the perennial style of back-to›
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school packs, but also the
mission of the ubiquitous carrying gear that for de› cades has been an annual must-buy for students of all ages. SeeBackpacks/A4
Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin
ABOVE: The 1940 Bend High football team, pictured in front of the school’s old gymnasium, became the first official OSAA football
state champion. TOP:The state trophy, a replica of the original that disappeared over the years, is displayed in the school’s hall of fame.
A look at the first
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and only
Bend Highteam to win the state football title
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end was a true mill town. Plain and simple. Pat Metke recalled as much. There were fights on every street corner, he remembered. Kids "grew up rough and tough."
In an era long before face masks, advanced padding or concussion-reducing helmets, a mere
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in Nature a team of 3B scientists finds that the
planet is home to 3.04 tril› lion trees, blowing away the previously estimate of 400 billion. That means, the researchers say, that
there are 422 trees for ev› ery person on Earth. However, in no way do the researchers con› sider this good news. The study also finds that
there are 46 percent few› er trees on Earth than there were before hu›
hunk of leather was the buffer between collisions. In a 1980 interview, Metke, quarterback of
mans started the lengthy,
the 1940 Bend High football team, said the sawmills produced more than timber products. They
processofdeforestation.
produced a rawboned cut of young men. The Lava Bears were "woefully weak in reserve strength," as it was described in The Bulletin. No
but recently accelerating, "We can now say that there'sless trees than at
any point in human civ› ilization," says Thomas Crowther, a postdoctoral
matter. They were only average in size. Not an issue. By the end of the season, the Bears evolved
researcher at the Yale School of Forestry and
into a team that "probably could have walloped any high school team in the Pacific northwest."
Environmental Studies
An Independent Newspaper
vol. 113, No. 24e, 50 pages, esections
In a blockbuster study released Wednesday
This was 1940, when 19
players composed a sur› prising Bend High squad that raised its slingshot and slayed the giants of Oregon high school foot›
ball. When theLavaBears reeled off an 8-1-1 record,
mighty Medford 20-7
and when, that November,
ball championship ever officially recognized in Oregon. SeeGrid kings/A4
as The Sunday Oregonian put it, Bend’s "burly gang deaned house," defeating
for the first state foot›
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who is the lead author on the research. "Since the spread of human influ› ence, we’ ve reduced the number almost by half, which is an astronomical
thing." SeeTrees/A4