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By TRISTAN HIEGLERH&N Staff Reporter

Plenty of changes are coming in 2015, both statewide and locally in the Klamath Basin. There is almost too much hap-pening to cover fully in one edition, but below are

some of the biggest game-changers.

Marijuana legalization One of the most-talked-

about modifications is of course the passage of Measure 91, which legal-izes owning and using set amounts of marijuana.

While the Oregon

Liquor Control Commis-sion (OLCC) is still plan-ning for implementation, a rough timeline is available for how and when legal-ization will work.

According to Karynn Fish, OLCC spokesperson, a “listening tour” is set to begin in late January, early February. The tour will involve OLCC employ-ees traveling throughout different areas of the state to get local perspectives on what implementation could mean.

“It will be an opportu-nity to get everybody on the same page about what the initiative does,” Fish said.

After the tour, the OLCC is planning on pulling together a rules advisory committee in the spring. The membership has not been established yet.

“I think the key is to make it broad enough to make sure all the voices are at the table, and small enough to make it nim-ble,” Fish said.

JOHN DAY (AP) — Logs are piled high in the yard of the Malheur Lumber Co. mill in this small town in northeastern Oregon, ready to be sawed into lumber. Steam pours out of the stacks. Trucks loaded with logs roll in.

John Day, a town of 1,700, nearly died two years ago. Its lifeblood, the sawmill, was about to close. So few logs were coming off the nearby Malheur National Forest, the mill’s owners decided it was time to shut down.

But the mill and the town’s economy were rescued by a detente between the timber industry and environmentalists — foes since the battles over logging that erupted in the Pacific Northwest three decades ago. The sides uncovered a shared goal: thinning over-grown forests to prevent catastrophic wild-fires.

Talk to people in town and you’ll still hear grumbling from those who don’t trust envi-ronmentalists. But not from Art Andrews, manager of Malheur Lumber.

“When I tell people that it’s the environ-mental community that saved this commu-nity, they say, ‘Oh, baloney!’” Andrews said. “But I lived it. I know it’s true.”

Mills in timber country have been steadily closing as fighting continues over how to log national forests without killing protected spe-cies like spotted owls and salmon. Across the West, there are efforts to build trust among timber interests, environmentalists and local residents, and the U.S. Forest Service hopes the success of John Day serves as a model.

There is little private timber to draw on in such towns, east of the Cascades. One logging project after another in the Malheur National Forest was shot down by lawsuits from envi-ronmentalists. Meanwhile, the community was demanding logs.

“We were at a stalemate,” recalled Steve Beverlin, supervisor of the Malheur National Forest.

Then, Blue Mountains Forest Partners formed in 2006, a collaborative group designed to bring together all sides of the community — especially environmentalists and the timber industry — to come up with projects that lawsuits wouldn’t stop.

Out of innumerable meetings and forest tours grew a few key friendships among peo-ple who became peacemakers in the timber war. Among them were Mike Billman, timber buyer for the Malheur Lumber Co. mill, and conservationist Tim Lillebo.

“I had never met him, but I’d heard of him plenty,” Billman said of Lillebo. “He was the devil, I guess.”

Editor’s note: Here is a look back at the events that affected the Klamath Basin in January and Feb-ruary. Coming in Sunday’s Herald and News, a review of events from May and June.

Year in Review: March-April

$1 million bail for crime spree By LEE BEACH H&N Guest Writer

MARCH1 – Cylise Dayne Atchley, 22,

Chiloquin, was lodged in the Klam-ath County Jail after an alleged crime spree that involved gunfire, high-speed pursuit, multiple home break-ins and a standoff that lasted

several hours. Bail of $1 million was requested.

2 – PacifiCorp proceeded with plans to decommission the West Side and East Side powerhouses, anticipating it would reduce the incidental take of Lost River and shortnose sucker by 90 percent.

See REVIEW, page A6

Conservationists, loggers team up on forest health Malheur Lumber Co. rescued by shared goal of thinning

See FOREST, page A3

2015: Game-changers

Actual sales of marijuana may not surface until 2016

Legal pot, wages, new school all in upcoming year

H&N file photo by Holly Dillemuth

Passage of Measure 91: The possession and use of recreational marijuana is set to become legal July 1, 2015; however, the systems for growing, manufacturing and selling marijuana will not be in place at that point.

H&N photo by Samantha Tipler

New school: Construction of the new Henley Elementary School, which began in spring, will be completed by fall 2015. See CHANGES, page A6