Kitzhaber signs executive order to redefine some S. Oregon land uses | capitalpress.com

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By MITCH LIES

Capital Press

May 29, 2012

Gov. John Kitzhaber has directed the state Department of Land Conservation and Development to work with three Southern Oregon counties on redefining farmland and forestland.

The executive order makes available $350,000 in grants for Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties to study, map and petition the state Land Conservation and Development Commission to redefine land uses.

It also directs the department to work with the counties, providing they choose to participate.

The landmark order could lead to the first regional definition of farm and forestland in the nearly 40-year history of Oregon’s statewide land-use system, said Dave Hunnicutt, president of the property rights group Oregonians in Action.

“(The executive order) is a monumental order in Oregon land-use planning history,” Hunnicutt wrote on the organization’s website. “If successful, we will have the first new definition of agricultural land and forestland.”

Hunnicutt said hundreds of thousands of acres in Oregon are zoned for farm or forest uses, but can’t sustain profitable farm or forest operations.

Kitzhaber made a similar statement in his executive order.

“In some areas, lands currently planned for resource uses have little direct value to their owners for those uses,” Kitzhaber wrote.

The order stipulates lands rezoned for non-farm or non-forest uses won’t interfere with nearby farm or forest uses, won’t interfere with future urbanizations of nearby cities and won’t create unsustainable fiscal impacts on local governments and the state.

It calls on DLCD to provide a status report to the governor and the Legislature by Jan. 1, 2014.

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PNP comment: Looks like the museum has been taken over by the Greenies in Klamath! — Editor Liz Bowen

Herald and News

May 29, 2012

   A program examining the status of endangered sucker populations in Upper Klamath Lake will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Klamath County Museum, according to a news release.

   Studies conducted over the past decade indicate endangered Lost River and shortnose sucker still are not reproducing successfully, despite ambitious efforts to improve habitat for the species.

   Eric Janney, a fishery biologist for the U.S. Geologic Survey, will describe methods scientists have been using to estimate the total number and age   distribution of sucker in the lake, and how that information is used to determine the long-term trend for the population.

   For more information, contact the Klamath County Museum at 541-883-4208.

THIS FRIDAY  June 1, 2012

4:00PM to ~9:00PM

Please forward to your contacts!

Location at Skyline Church; 11330 Campo Road, La Mesa. CA

www.EFSDConvention2012.com and only $20/person

Will we be able to get our special suprise (Mitt Romney) live or linked in?

We won’t know for sure until the last minute!

So avoid the line at the door; pre-pay on line and pick up your ticket at the WILL CALL TABLE.

Tickets at the door CASH or CHECK ONLY!!

Don’t miss the Eagle Forum San Diego 3^rd Annual Convention – THIS FRIDAY 6-1-2012 from 4:00PM to ~9:00PM

Location at Skyline Church; 11330 Campo Road, La Mesa. CA

www.EFSDConvention2012.com and only $20/person

And here’s who’s coming to YOUR 3^rd Annual Eagle Forum San Diego Convention!

• · Brian Brown – National Organization of Marriage

The Heroic Fight Keeping Marriage Safe.  Update California and North Carolina

• · Barbara Decker – Filling us in on Agenda 21 –

Why it’s bad for every living thing in America!

• · Dinesh D’Souza – Author and Film Producer of Obama’s Film 2016

Obama, love him, hate him, you don’t know him!

• · Frank Gaffney – Center for Security Policy –

Sharia Law – Muslim Brotherhood … Are We Threatened?

• · Gabriella Hoffman – Resistance 44

Youth and Social Media

• · Walter Hoye III –

Hero of the Unborn

• · Charles Limandri – West Coast Division of the Thomas More Center

HHC Mandate Update

• · Alice Linahan – from Texas; Voices Empower

Generation Mentors – Driving the Narrative

• · Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse – The Ruth Institute

California’s link to National Org of Marriage

• · Dran Reese – Salt and Light Council

Christian Citizens role in Government and Judges

• · Wayne Allyn Root – Root for America!!!! Motivational Speaker Galore!!!

Global economic meltdown!

• · Dr. Rick Scarborough – Vision America

What’s right with America and Why We The Churches Must Rise Up

• · Holly Swanson – Get The “Green” Out!

Just as you suspected – “Green” is actually Red – as in communism

And more; we’re still working on the special surprise.

After registering see the video invitation for you for a hint!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMXLIWn67Bo

Woody

In God We Trust
All others we vet.

• By Alayna Shulman

• Posted May 29, 2012 at 11:08 p.m.

• Redding.com

A Shasta College student and his film partner are working on a documentary about private property rights and religious freedom that’s partially inspired by the legal battle of vintner Reverge Anselmo.

Anselmo is still in the midst of two lawsuits against the county, both of which allege property rights violations. The most recent alleges the county abused Anselmo’s religious rights by red-tagging a chapel he built at his winery.

Ted Methvin Jr., of Redding, and Jason Loring, of Santa Cruz, head Empty Pipe Creations. They are teaming with Shasta College business professor Wesley Frost and his wife, Vickie Frost, to produce the documentary.

It’s likely to wrap in September and premier sometime later this year at Shasta College and possibly the Cascade Theatre, Methvin said.

They got the idea for the film after shooting footage of a rally held by local supporters of Anselmo at his vineyard near Shingletown.

“Once that was done … we realized that there was a compelling story here, more compelling than we realized,” said Wesley Frost, who started Snow Mountain Films with his wife to help produce the documentary.

Methvin said the company has never shot a documentary before and usually focuses on fictional work. But this will be its first release, he said.

The filmmakers said the documentary includes similar property and religious rights cases from all over, and Anselmo isn’t featured heavily, nor has he had any part in funding the production.

Read the rest at:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/29/local-groups-documentary-inspired-by-anselmo/

May 29, 2012

We are headed into Memorial Day weekend and it is drizzling this morning, May 25 – even here in Callahan, with a snow level that I can see across the narrow valley. Yippee yahoo. I didn’t get the garden planted and may be a good thing. The ground was pretty dry and there are more weeds that need pulled. It is so much easier to pull them right after a rain and then plant. Boy the bunch grass is terrible in the flower beds. Looks like a lot of work to me to get it out.

My Oriental poppies are finally blooming bright orange and the delphinium is about to bloom as are the Shasta Daisies. Been eating lettuce from the volunteer batch that came up in Feb. and I covered with a clear plastic box through much of colder weather. This variety is pretty hardy. The crop planted in April will be ready soon. Garlic is doing great, I just have to remember to irrigate it as well as the small number of onions that made it through the winter and didn’t end up on our dinner table.

Keeping my purchases to the basics this year: Last week, I purchased six Ace tomatoes, six bell peppers, a six-pack of cabbage was still available and a small rectangle of onions. I did splurge and got a six-pack of bright pink zinnias. But, of course, I couldn’t decide whether or not to plant them; and the tomatoes, especially, needed to be hardened off. So they have sat in the garden by a bush and at night I cover them. I am sure their roots are screaming to be let free, so hopefully this weekend I will get them planted. I just need to make sure I have enough boxes or things to cover them, if frost threatens during the next month.

Thanks to Matt McQuoid for coming out and finding a valve to turn on for my upper irrigation water. We had missed it, when he fixed the pipe line that froze last winter. But it will still take me another month to set up all the hoses, soaker hoses and timers for irrigating everything.

New Mexico

I kinda left you up-in-the-air last week regarding New Mexico’s Otero County Commissioner, Ronny Rardin, who challenged the USFS and cut down an acre of trees in National Forest. This showdown occurred Sept. 17, 2011 after the USFS officials threatened to arrest anyone cutting trees, which included the County Commissioners and a Congressman. So the Otero Sheriff fired back that he would arrest, for kidnap, anyone arresting the U.S. Congressman. A stalemate was made and the trees were cut. But now the USFS has filed a lawsuit against the County for cutting the trees. This is exactly what Commissioner Rardin wanted to happen, because he believes they have enough law on their side for the (this is the important part) county to take back the National Forest within the county boundaries. This is huge.

This is an important lawsuit and could mean a whole new lease on life for Siskiyou County. So we need to watch this closely.

The most important statement that I heard Rardin say is that the USFS works under policy. His county operates under the law of the Constitution. Law should trump policy.

Farm Bureau lawsuit

Just learned that the trial that is half-over has been postponed, again. It is now out to June 26^th. I believe the California Dept. of Fish and Game asked for an extension and the judge allowed it.

Darren Mercier, attorney for the Siskiyou Co. Farm Bureau, really had his ducks in a row during the first week of trial earlier this month. Through his questions, which referred to deposition testimony, DFG officials Mark Stopher and Neil Manji, couldn’t seem to remember a variety of things and changed their testimony. Hum, interesting.

It was also learned that Stopher did not submit his “changes” in regulations, which included wording, to the Administrative Policy Act in Sacramento. Stopher admitted he did not follow his agency’s protocol and it is under Stopher that the word “significant” was re-defined as “anything I say it is,” according to Stopher.

The lawsuit claims that it is not a streambed alteration to extract water under a legal water right. DFG is demanding a new permit by irrigators to obtain their water, because DFG is claiming water removal alters the streambed.

A legislative analyst was also brought in by the Farm Bureau and she testified that the Streambed Alteration Permit never ever mentioned water or water removal. In 1961, the state legislature established the Streambed Alteration 1600 code section and it only dealt with gravel, actual streambed and bank protection.

Interesting how bureaucracies can’t leave things alone, but must always be creating more layers of policy infringing on our rights.

Liz Bowen writes biographies and freelances. Check out websites: Pie N Politics.com and Liz Bowen.com

Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco Seeks to Ban Bullet Button

Anti-Gun radical Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco is at it again. Now he’s taken an existing bill and gutted the language out of it to introduce new language that bans bullet buttons on semi-automatic AR style rifles.

Although Gun Owners of California is in complete opposition to California’s tortured so-called “Assault Weapons” laws, they are clear in that if it requires the use of a tool to remove a magazine from a rifle, it could not be considered an assault weapon.  Most importantly, a bullet or ammunition cartridge is considered a tool.  This issue was debated extensively by the legislature when they passed these laws.  Like it or not, this is settled.

On his website, Senator Yee cites a concern with a rise in crime stating, “While most gun owners are law abiding, I am deeply concerned with these assault weapons getting into the wrong hands, resulting in mass casualties of civilians or law enforcement officers.”

The facts according to the CA Department of Justice are that since 1999, crimes with “assault weapons” are almost nonexistent! Even though guns with Bullet Buttons number in the 10’s of thousands if not 100’s of thousands, there is not a single reported incident of a crime being committed with one of them…ever!

So…in other words, SENATOR YEE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT!

But, he will get plenty of sympathy from other Left-Wing Senators and Assembly members to help pass this bill, unless we do something to stop it.

That’s why Gun Owners of California needs your help!!!!!

We need thousands of California citizens to sign the petition (here) and to also send this email alert to every friend and relative you have!!!!!

We also need your financial help—-if you are not a member of GOC, please (join) now!!! If you are a member, please send an emergency (donation) and ask your friends to do the same.

In opposing SB 249, Gun Owners of California declares that this legislation along with the assault weapons laws on the California law books are unconstitutional on all fronts. Even US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the landmark case of Heller v District of Columbia, opened the door to consider whether bans of firearms commonly used throughout the country should be considered unconstitutional.  If this is so, then many of California’s gun laws may be unconstitutional including the Assault Weapons Control Act and the Safe Handgun laws that prevent Californians from acquiring firearms that do not have “politically correct” safety devices.

For now, we ask all of our members, supporters and friends to call their legislators and demand that they oppose SB 249 because it is a direct assault on our Second Amendment Rights.  For more information go to our website at www.gunownersca.com or call our office at 916-984-1400.

Letter to the editor.

It is sad and frustrating to see our economy in ruins and the price of gas and, yes, diesel fuel so high that families and businesses are being devastated.

Farmers cannot get enough water to grow their crops and small businesses cannot survive because of over regulation in almost every aspect of our lives. Excess regulation has caused over two hundred businesses and over two hundred ten thousand people to leave California last year. California is given the dubious honor of being the worst state in the union in which to do business because of all the excessive regulations.

What is causing this state of affairs? I firmly believe it is the negative effect of the radical environmental groups on our way of life.

Believe it or not, you are actually without your knowledge or permission funding these groups with your hard-earned tax dollars to destroy your way of life.

They are accomplishing their goal in part through the Endangered Species Act. The radical environmental organizations are bent on placing insects including, but not limited to, worms, dung beetles, flies and every other insect or animal known to man on the endangered species list thereby devastating the US economy and the livehood of millions of farmers, ranchers and the general public as a whole.

One of the most powerful extremist organizations in the world is called the Center for Biological Diversity.

Today, the Center for Biological Diversity has an annual budget of over seven million dollars and sixty-two full-time staffers including over twenty attorneys. These attorneys have stayed busy by filing over six hundred lawsuits and countless petitions against the federal government. These lawsuits were filed mostly against the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Forest Service.

Both these bloated agencies played “patty cake” with the CBD and, in most cases, stipulated without even going to trial that the CBD was the prevailing party and thereby was awarded attorney fees and costs. It is reported that the CBD has been awarded attorney fees and costs in excess of thirty-seven million dollars thereby enabling them to file even more lawsuits.

Who paid these attorney fees and costs? You did with your hard earned tax dollars without your permission or, in most cases, your knowledge.

Sometimes a rancher or businessman attempting to defend him or herself against these radical environmental groups would find him or herself in a position where he or she was actually paying attorneys on both sides of the litigation.

You and your way of life are the endangered species and you are funding your own demise.

William J. Prater

P.O. Box 23

Clipper Mills CA. 95930

Tribe Wants End To Short-Term Klamath Dam Relicensing · Oregon Public Broadcasting · EarthFix

http://earthfix.opb.org/water/article/california-tribe-asks-feds-to-stop-licensing-klama/

Tribe asks feds to resume Klamath dams relicensing

San Jose Mercury News - ‎4 hours ago‎

By JEFF BARNARD AP Environmental Writer Frustrated that a deal to remove a string of hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River in Northern California has stalled, the Hoopa Tribe has petitioned federal authorities to restart the bureaucratic process in …

Hoopa Tribe asks FERC to resume relicensing process to speed removal of …

The Republic - ‎4 hours ago‎

Frustrated that a deal to remove a string of hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River in Northern California has stalled, the Hoopa Tribe has petitioned federal authorities to restart the bureaucratic process in hopes it will get the dams out of the …

Tribe Asks Feds To Order Removal Of 4 Klamath Dams · OPB News

http://news.opb.org/article/tribe-asks-feds-order-removal-4-klamath-dams/

Tribe Asks Feds To Order Removal Of 4 Klamath Dams

Amelia Templeton

May 30, 2012

A California American Indian tribe asked federal regulators Tuesday to order the removal of four dams on the Klamath River. The tribe says a restoration plan for the river is stalled.

The Klamath River runs through the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s reservation.

The tribe says the four dams upriver contribute to toxic algae blooms and salmon diseases. Power company PacifiCorp owns the dams and has signed a deal that would remove them by 2020. Thomas Schlosser is an attorney for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. He says the tribe doubts Congress will ever approve the current dam removal deal.

“That legislation isn’t going to pass. It subordinates Indian water rights. It costs 800 million bucks. And it has a whole lot of other controversial provisions,” he said.

The tribe wants federal regulators to stop extending PacifiCorp’s license to operate the dams. Bob Gravely, a spokesman for PacifiCorp, says the plan to remove the dams by 2020 is still on track.

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please visit today.

PNP comment: Josephine County must reduce services due to a huge budget shortfall. — Editor Liz Bowen

Published on Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:14Hits: 562

SUMMARY OF INMATES RELEASED AS BEYOND AVAILABLE RESOURCES

DETAIL ON INMATES RELEASED AS BEYOND AVAILABLE RESOURCES

ZIP FILE OF INMATE MUGSHOTS (.JPGS)

[UPDATE: There was a total of 39 inmates released today. One inmate who was scheduled to be released was kept in custody due to behavioral issues this morning.

A list of all the inmates who were released today is available at www.jocosheriff.us/news . There is also a more detailed document that includes the released inmates' descriptors, mugshots and charges.

A zip file with image files of all the inmate mugshots is also available for download.]

Grants Pass, OR — May 30th, at about 10:00 a.m., the Josephine County Adult Jail released 39 inmates, in order to meet its new lower capacity of 60 total inmates.

The date of the release was not publicized until today for safety reasons.

The inmate capacity, which at one time was as high as 160 inmates, is being lowered to 60 in order to get the jail to a level that is safe to operate for the 18 employees who will remain out of the 38 who were budgeted for fiscal year 2011-12.

The decreased staffing is in response to a $7.5 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2012-13.

Of the 60 beds in use, up to 30 will be reserved for federal contracts, which generate about $1 million dollars each year in revenue. Of the 30 that remain for local control, typically about 20 are taken up by Measure 11 inmates, whom the law dictates must be held due to the seriousness of their charges.

The inmates who were released have charges that include, but are not limited to:
*Rape in the third degree
*Sodomy in the third degree
*Failure to Register as a Sex Offender
*Endangering Welfare of a Minor
*Assault in the fourth degree
*Menacing
*Robbery in the third degree
*Felon in Possession of a Firearm
*Escape
*Resisting Arrest
*Parole, Probation and Post-Prison Violations
*Drug possession, delivery and manufacture
*Various property crimes

Release decisions were made collectively by the Sheriff’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, the courts and Community Corrections. Various factors are taken into consideration, including seriousness of the charges and whether or not any of the inmates are Measure 11 inmates, meaning that they must serve a minimum mandatory sentence.

Some of the “Beyond Available Resources” (BAR) inmates were sentenced to work crew in lieu of serving jail time. Others were required to sign a release agreement binding them to show up in court for trial and sentencing.

It was previously anticipated that a greater number of inmates would need to be released, but a collective effort among the criminal justice system and expedition of sentencing has lowered that number. See related news release at http://www.jocosheriff.us/news/433-courts-expedite-sentencing-to-help-lower-inmate-count for further detail.

The drastic funding decrease for fiscal year 2012-13, and subsequent years, is a result of the federal government’s decision to terminate federal timber payments, commonly known as Oregon & California (O&C) funds.

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