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EDITOR'SCHOICE Deschutes County. "Thesenew reservoirs are charting newterritory for us asfar aswhat is allowed andwhat's not," said Nick Lelack, the county's community development director.
Receding lakes offer
a glimpse By Javler Panzer LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — The Lakeview Mo-
tel's name is false advertising these dry days. The same thing is true for the Paradise Cove Lodge down California 178.
That's because the water level in m an-made Lake Isabella has dropped about 59 feet since the last big wet year in 2011. There is
names in Central Oregon — announced Monday an agreement to acquire Precision Castparts, based in Portland, in
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Santa Fe Railway, familiar corporate
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• Neighbors worry new reservoir in Alfalfa will be usedfor morethanjust irrigation
Site ef largedry irrigation pond
has the potential for recreational activity and will likely be another land use test case for Deschutes
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32,632 acre-feet of water in
the lake — 5.8 percent of the lake's capacity, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The water level is low enough that dozens of
ghostly white cottonwood
The 9-acre pond is on a 120acre ranch in the northeast
corner of the community and surrounded by alfalfa farms and grazingcattle.Thenarrow pond, or reservoir, is proposed to be 6 feet deep and has small
lakehave emerged from
islands on opposite ends. The county discovered in Decem-
the water.
ber that the pond was dug
The gangly arms of the barren trees are a once-in-a-generation view.
without proper permitting and was in violation of the county
"You see this all over the West," said Jon Christensen, a historian with UCLA's Institute of Environment and Sustainabil-
A similar reservoir proposal was made last year when a developmentcompany and
trees at the bottom of the
ity. "It is an eerie way of revealing both our history and our possible fate."
code.
the Tumalo Irrigation District
sought to store water in two small reservoirs off of Johnson
Road. The county has required conditional use permits for
Smith has indicated in applications he plans to grow vegetables in a greenhouse at activity, and the first thing that comes to mind the ranch and other crops in would be water recreation." the ground. But some adjoining property — Hubert Blerly, who grows alfalfa south of the irrigation pond owners believe the amount of water is disproportionate to the water skiing and digging of the owner of the Alfalfa property, proposed agricultural use. "Obviously, there would be reservoirs. The applications according to county records. are being reviewed and will The business was registered some other type of activity, go before a hearingsofficerin with the state by Gordon and the first thing that comes September. Smith, a Bend resident. to mind would be water recre"These new reservoirs are Smith could not be reached ation," said Hubert Bierly, who charting new territory for us for comment about the pond grows 70 acresofalfalfadirectas far as what is allowed and and its potential use. No perly south of the irrigation pond. what's not," Nick Lelack, the "There likely will be several mits have been submitted to the county's community developcounty proposing recreational uses, but clearly the design is ment department director, said use at the pond, which isn' t beyond that used for agriculFriday. completely filled with water ture," said Lelack. KG Ranch LLC is the listed yet. SeePond/A5
"Obviously, there would be some other type of
Rogue drones a national nuisance By Craig Whitlock The Washington Post
Rogue drone operators are rapidly becoming a national nuisance, invading sensitive airspace and private property-
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with the regulators
Correction In a story headlined "The 'triumphant return' of Klondike Kate's rocks," which appeared Monday, Aug. 10, onPageA1, a caption on PageA6incorrectly described whereshehad one shrine built using Oregon rocks. It was built at the old St. Charles Hospital. The Bulletin regrets the error. In a story headlined "Planning death — Choicesand dialogue at the end of life," which appeared Monday,Aug. 10, ln High Desert Pulse magazine, the final sentence of the story that ended onPage34 was in complete.Thesentence should have read, "Theyhavea choice.... They have agreater control over the circumstances of their death."
The Bulletin regrets the omission.
Trophy hunting not all bad, expertssay By Norimltsu Onlshi
ing to a blind where his Ameri-
New York Times News Service
can clients would wait for a tar-
$2,500" for a kudu, more than 10 times what he would sell one OLIFANTSVLEI, South Afget to shoot with their bows. He of the animals for meat, he said. rica — Before the two hunters moved on, past a house rebuilt "You stop trophy hunting, the from Texas had breakfast, Stew- after a fire during his mother' s live market is going to change art Dorrington drove through childhood, then a dam raised by completely; it' ll go to meat valhis 12,000-acre game ranch. As his grandfather, memory and ue, really," less than 60 cents a the early-morning sun cast a soft longing melting into the South pound, he added. "So that will glow on the landscape, turned African bushveld. deprive the national parks and a wintry pale brown, buffalo Then kudu antelopes sprint- the provincial parks of a lot of wandered in the tall grass and ed across a clearing and Dor- their budget." giraffes appeared in a duster of rington turned to the business Many scientists agree with trees. at hand. him. "My trophy-hunting price is Dorrington drove on, pointDespite calls to ban or restrict
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trophy hunting in Africa after the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe, most conserva-
tion groups, wildlife management experts and African governments support the practice
as a way to maintain wildlife. Hunting, they contend, is part
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stop them.
In recent days, drones have smuggled drugs into an Ohio prison, smashed a Cincinnati
skyscraper, impeded efforts to fight wildfires in California and nearly collided with three airliners over New York City.
of a complex economy that has
In Albuquerque,
so farproved to be the most effective method of conservation,
New Mexico, a drone buzzed into a crowd
not only in Africa but around the world as well. SeeHunt /A5
at an outdoor festival, injuring a bystander. SeeDrones/A6
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