Bulletin Daily Paper 1/7/12

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SNOWY OWLS: More heading our way C1 •

JANUARY 7, 2012

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Effective teachers are linked to lasting benefits

WOLF REINTRODUCTION

• As costs mount, some researchers point out benefits

PREDATOR, PROTECTOR

By Annie Lowrey New York Times News Service

Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wideranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years. The paper, by Raj Chetty and John Friedman of Harvard and Jonah Rockoff of Columbia, all economists, examines more students over a longer period of time with more in-depth data than many earlier studies, getting a deeper look at how much the quality of individual teachers matters over time. “That test scores help you get more education, and that more education has an earnings effect — that makes sense to a lot of people,” said Robert Meyer, director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This study skips the stages, and shows differences in teachers mean differences in earnings.” See Teachers / A7

Mistakenly deported to Colombia, teen reunites with family By Juan Carlos Llorca and Linda Stewart Ball The Associated Press

DALLAS — A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was reunited with her family in the United States on Friday. The 15-year-old girl is at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen. Her family has questioned why U.S. officials didn’t do more to verify her identity and say she is not fluent in Spanish and had no ties to Colombia. While many facts of the case involving Jakadrien Lorece Turner remain unclear, U.S. and Colombian officials have pointed fingers over who is responsible. See Deported / A6

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Cascades Academy gets $2M gift for new site By Ben Botkin The Bulletin

Photo courtesy Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

OR-1, Oregon’s first radio-collared wolf, was released in Eastern Oregon on May 3, 2009. Ear tags help wildlife management identify the wolves, and radio collars can be used to track their movement, as well as activate proximity-sensitive deterrent systems.

By Dylan J. Darling • The Bulletin

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s wolves spread into Central Oregon, advocates and opponents continue to debate their value. Some say the animals, eradicated from the state decades ago, will help bring the

ecosystem into better balance. Others argue the predators were eliminated for good reason. Since wolves wandered into Oregon from Idaho in 2008, the state has spent about $800,000 to manage them, according to an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife report. That sum will grow by at least a half million dollars over the next couple of years, and the spending could escalate as the number of wolves roaming the state continues to grow. For wolf supporters, having the animals back in the state’s biological fold justifies such costs. For critics, the expenses come in addition to the damage they say the animals are doing to the state’s livestock and wildlife.

Oregon territory There are four known wolf packs in Oregon and at least two lone wolves that wandered through Central Oregon in search of new territory and mates. Snake River pack Wenaha pack Imnaha pack Walla Walla pack

OR-5 Jan. 25, 2011

HIGH DRAMA ON THE HIGH SEAS

Umatilla River wolves

‘Ecology of fear’ OR-3 Sept. 30, 2011

In evaluating the benefit of wolves in an ecosystem, Bill Ripple, a professor of forest ecosystems and society at Oregon State University, is focusing on streamside plants in Yellowstone National Park. There are about 100 wolves in the park and, as in Idaho, they’ve been back for a decade and a half. “Yellowstone seems like a different place than it was before wolves returned in 1995,” he said. The major difference is the resurgence of aspen, willows and cottonwoods along the park’s rivers and streams, he said. See Wolf / A6

OR-9 Dec. 31, 2010

1995: Federal wildlife managers reintroduce wolves into Idaho and Yellowstone National Park.

1999: Radiocollared wolf captured near John Day and returned to Idaho.

New York Times News Service

OR-7 Nov. 8 to Dec. 23, 2011

OR-7 Dec. 31, 2011 Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin

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between Ukiah and Pendleton. Both wolves were from Idaho.

2000: Dead radio-collared wolf found along Interstate 84 south of Baker City; dead wolf found shot

2005: State releases wolf management plan, detailing how to handle the endangered species re-emergence.

2007: Dead wolf found shot in Union County. 2008: Radiocollared wolf enters Eastern Oregon from Idaho; she eventually becomes the matriarch of one of Oregon’s new packs.

2010: State updates wolf management plan, clarifying response to livestock kills. 2011: OR-3, a radio-collared wolf from Eastern Oregon, is tracked near Prineville in September.

Crosswords B5, F2 Dear Abby B3 Editorials C6

Horoscope Movies Obituaries

OR-7, another radio-collared wolf from Eastern Oregon, passes through Central Oregon on his way to becoming the first wolf in California in nearly 90 years. — Dylan Darling

TODAY’S WEATHER

INDEX Business C3-5 Comics B4-5 Community B1-6

U.S. Navy frees Iranian fishermen held by pirates By C.J. Chivers

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION IN OREGON 1946: Last wolf brought in for state bounty in Douglas County.

Cascades Academy of Central Oregon has received a $2 million matching gift that adds momentum to the private, independent school’s efforts to raise funds to build a new campus on 21 acres directly northwest of Tumalo State Park. The donation, coming from the James and Kelly Young Family Foundation, is aiding the school’s push toward the $9.8 million project. The new location on Tumalo Reservoir Road will boost student capacity and provide a spot for outdoor learning that the school includes in its college preparatory curriculum. The school serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The school could break ground on the new site as soon as this spring. For now, the school is focusing on raising the $2 million of matching money that’s needed for the building to become a reality. Already, the school has raised more than $500,000 toward that goal. Blair Jenkins, the head of the school, said the academy will know by February if enough funding is secured for the building. By then, if the $2 million match is in place, the school can break ground by June and open in the fall of 2013, she said. The gift is the largest ever given to the school, which opened its doors in 2003. James and Kelly Young have grandchildren who attend the school. See Academy / A4

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Sports D1-6 Stocks C4-5 TV B2, ‘TV’ mag

Partly cloudy High 42, Low 20 Page C8

ABOARD THE FISHING VESSEL AL-MULAHI, in the Gulf of Oman — Senior Iranian military officials this week bluntly warned a U.S. aircraft carrier that it would confront the “full force” of the Iranian military if it tried to re-enter the Persian Gulf. On Friday, Fazel Ur Rehman, a 28year-old Iranian fisherman, had a warmer greeting for the carrier task force. “It is like you were sent by God,” said Rehman, huddled under a blanket in this vessel’s stern. “Every night we prayed for God to rescue us. And now you are here.” In a naval action that mixed diplomacy, drama and Middle Eastern politics, the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis broke up a high-seas pirate attack on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, then sailors from a U.S. destroyer boarded the pirates’ mother ship and freed 13 Iranian hostages who had been held captive there for more than a month. The rapidly unfolding events began Thursday morning when the pirates attacked a Bahamian-flagged ship, the motor vessel Sunshine, unaware that the Stennis was steaming less than eight miles away. See Pirates / A7

TOP NEWS GOP: Debate in N.H. tonight, A3 JOBLESS RATE:falls to 8.5%, C3


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