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By Megan Kehoee The Bulletin
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As summer descends on Bend, it's hard to miss the multitude of stand-up paddleboarders floating down serene stretches of the Deschutes River. But many of these recreationists are unaware their perfect day paddling down the Deschutes could take a nasty turn and run them up to $400 if they're not carrying several items — particularly
• Restrictions put in placefor 1sttime
a life jacket — required by state law.
handful of states havelegalized it, but they're not exactly cashing in. A4
By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
Deschutes County be-
came the latest government entity to take preventive
Odituary — Ell
action against fireswednes• Restriction day, declaring
Inside
Wallach, a character actor whose roles spanned six decades.BS
list, A4
a s t a te of
emergency and enacting first
restrictions on unprotected wildlands and county-owned lands. The county's dedsion
Gay marriage — Utahban is ruled unconstitutional.A2
follows awinter that left the
And a Wedexclusive-
region with snowpack levels well below average and an early start to the fire sea-
For members of the U.S. military, a ban onsmoking could really burn. beedbelletie.cem/extras
son, with the Two Bulls Fire
burningnearly 7,000 acres earlier this month. County commissioners emphasized
thebenefit these regula-
EDITOR'SCHOICE
More police opt to leave pot plants in their pots By Sadie Gurman
tions will offer unprotected wildlands, which are those
outside of city limits, rural fire protection districts and Photos by Andy Tullie/The Bulletin
Paddleboarders make their way up and downstream in the Deschutes River near the Old Mill District in Bend on Wednesday after-
noon. Adult paddleboarders are required by law to carry a life jacket, and children12 and younger must wear one at all times.
areas protectedbythe Oregon Department of Forestry, the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Man-
agement. These restrictions
"It's lifesaving equipment," said John Hise, manager of Tumalo Creek Kayak 8~ Canoe. "People don't realize it, but in water, anything can happen. You could have (a) medical situation out there-
come on the heels of the
Oregon Department of Forestry last weektightening public fire restrictions in its
Central Oregon District.
you could have a heart attack, a seizure ... It's best to just wear it."
See Fire/A4
The Associated Press
seized illegal pot plants by ripping them out by their
The sport of stand-up withthe law. These permits paddleboarding has explod- cost about $5 and can be ed in popularity locally in purchased online or at cerrecent years. Andthough it tain retailers. may appear to be a larger Hise, who outfits pad-
roots and stashing them
versionofa surfboard to
away in musty evidence
some, apaddleboard is tech- Creekshop, said Tuesday nicallydefined as aboat, many recreationists run-
DENVER — Police in
some medical marijuana states who once routinely
Related
rooms to die are now
• A better
thinking chance for twice about legal pot the practice. here? B3 F r o m Col-
according to the U.S. Coast
Guard, when it is used as a
In some cases, the onetime suspects are asking for hundreds of thousands
obtain an aquatic invasive
of dollars to replace dead plants.
species permit to stay in line
farm' for Washington state to Calpot,B3 ifornia and
Hawaii, police are being sued by people who want their marijuana back after prosecutors chose not to
charge them or they were acquitted.
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the paddle
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ning the river in the Old Mill District do not know about
these regulations. "Many, required by law, paddlemanypeople are unaware," boarders must carryalife said Hise. "Experienced jacket onboard their vessels boaters know these things. at all times, along with a But a large number of newnoise-making device, such erboaters gettingintothe as a whistle. Paddleboardsport don't know the rules." ers 12 and younger must Fines for not complying wear life jackets at all times; with regulations indude boarders older than 12 are $260 for not carrying a life required to have the life jacket, $110 for not carrying jacket onboard. anoise-makingdeviceand Additionally, paddle$30 for not having an inboarders with craftslonger vasive species permit, said than 10 feet must also Ashley Massey of the Ore-
• A 'right to o r a do and
You need more than
dleboarders at the Thmalo 4
form of transportation. As
andboard if you're going paddleboarding. A life jacket, whistle
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side of caution," said Mitch Barker, executive director
of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police
Chiefs. The change comes as
By Craig Timberg
or other
The Washington Post
noisemak-
WASHINGTON — The words "National Security
er, and an invasive species permit
(depend-
Agency" appear nowhere in the Supreme Related coup's opm • Traditional ion WednesTV wins in dayprolnbit
ing on the size of the
ruling, A5 ing cellphone searches
board)
gon State Marine Board. See Paddleboard/A5
are all requlred
without a warrant. But the
by law.
dear the natton s most tm
unanimous rulingmakes portant jurists are tuned in
Concerns over liabili-
ty haveprompted some agencies to either forgo rounding up the plants altogether or to improvise by collecting a few samples and photographing the rest to useasevidence forcrim inal charges. "None of us really are sure what we're supposed todo, andsoyouerronthe
High court's phone ruling hints at NSA spying curbs
to the roiling debate about
high-tech surveillance and concernedaboutgovern-
Republieans still faee war with tea pa By David Lightman
"Conservatives all over this country will wonder why the GOP should be supported," added Brent Bozell, the chairman of the conservative group
were fuming Wednesday over Sen. Thad Cochran's narrow
vote Democratic.
win Tuesday over Chris Mc-
isn't unusual in states with
publican Party establishment once again won a big battle,
Daniel in Mississippi's Republican Senate runoff election.
this time in Mississippi. But it's
A crucial reason for Co-
still facing a prolonged, bitter war with tea party insurgents.
chran's 50.9 percent showing was apparently turnout by non-Republicans, notably blacks, who traditionally
open primaries. But to the conservatives who've become increasingly influential in the ForAmerica. "They will point Republican Party, it's a partic- to Mississippi and say, 'There ularly chilling development on is nodifference between the the eve of the 2016 presidential parties.'" nominating season. See Republicans/A5
McC(atchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Re-
Tea party activists and re-
bellious conservative groups
This party line-crossing
ment officials going too far. Inbroad, passionate language — spiked with the occasional joke — the rulingby Chief Justice John Roberts asserts that the vast
troves of information police can find in modern cellphones are no less worthy of constitutional protection
than the private papers the Founding Fathers once kept
locked in wooden file cabinets inside their homes. See Ruling /A5
the notion of marijuana
as medicine clashes with police seizure procedure that was developed in an
era when pot was seen as a scourge that needed to be wiped out. See Pot/A4
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