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'He was a 24/7 teacher'
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Storage shortageRentalhousing isn't all that' s hard to come by inBend. Storage units are also in short supply.Ce
By Abby Spegman The Bulletin
Jack Ensworth, a longtime teacher in Bend and the namesake of Ensworth
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with his students. He was named National Teacher of the Year in 1973.
"He was just one in a mil-
lion," said Judy Ensworth, Willamette National Forest I Submitted photo
Russell Lake is in Jefferson Park in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The Willamette National Forest is proposing a camping reservation system for lakeside campsites in Jefferson Park.
• A campsite reservation system is being consideredfor Jefferson Park, a first for wildernessareas near us
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The Willamette Nationa reservationsystem for
destinations in the Mount
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who has responded to a
district ranger for the national forest. Reservations would cost $9. As it is now, people hiking in with hopes of being
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Grady McMahan, Detroit
by a lake often find those
prime campsites already taken in summertime. When this happens, people sometimes pitch their
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This popular flat area may soon require reservationsfor its campsites.
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campsites available for res-
said Kassidy Kern, spokeswoman for the national
worked out, said Judith
derness campsites on the
McHugh, spokeswoman
reservation system right
for the national forest, but
the reservations probably
mended for heavy urban combat or mine-laden Bidding starts at $7,500. After astoried career
ervations. The Deschutes National Forest, which oversees the Three Sisters Wilderness near Bend,
pier and less destructive campers. "They know before they go that they actually have a spot," he said Tuesday. Details are still being
that spanned the 1991
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Persian Gulf War, Bosnia, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United
States' fleet of Humvees is entering its twilight and are being sold to the highest bidder by the dozen. It is an icon of the U.S. military that replaced the Jeep
and spawned a gas-guzzling commercial cousin that symbolized American ego and extravagance.
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al Forest is taking public comment on the plan. Jefferson Park would be
tions would make for hap-
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many times when former students would call out of the blue asking how Mr. Ensworth was and if they could come visit "He was
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he's damaging the GOP, stories about Lindsey Grathat Trump "stop being a jackass."
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his wife of 20 years. Though they married after
into Yellowstone National
Park, eager to escape the cramped cubicles and tiny apartments from whence they came.
They gaze upon the geysers. They marvel at the mountains and valleys. They hike around miles of picturesque trails. In other words, they get closer to nature.
Occasionally a little too close. On Tuesday, a 43-year-old
Mississippi woman and her 6-year-old daughter were snapping a selfie in front of a wild bison when the massive animal attacked. The woman, who had her
overtaken by the bison and tossed into the air, according
to a bison. And although it appears
to The Associated Press.
to be the first bison self-
The unidentified tourist was taken to a clinic nearby and
ie-gone-wrong in the park, two previous incidents also
treated for minor injuries.
involved people approaching the hulking animals for photos.
back turned to the bison even though it was barely 6 yards
The attack is the fifth so far this year in which a Yel-
away, tried to flee but was
lowstone tourist got too close
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