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Workers at an orchard in Yakima, Washington, pull on equipment while wearing masks and gloves to protect against the coronavirus. A recent study by UC Berkeley found that farmworkers were less likely to get the vaccine, even though they were more likely than the general public to contract Covid-19. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Food and agricultural workers are supposed to be a part of the next group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, but experts worry that many workers won’t get vaccinated even if they have the opportunity.
A study this summer found that about a third of farmworkers said they were unsure or unlikely to get vaccinated.
Wallowa County landowners battle an invasion: junipers, April 1, 2020
ENTERPRISE â At first glance, they look like ordinary evergreen trees: a little short, a little rotund, but harmless enough. But junipers are opportunists of the highest order, gobbling up some of Wallowa Countyâs grassland and water resources at a fierce rate.
Now, thanks to the teamwork of range conservationist J. Johansen and 6 Ranch owner Liza Jane McAlister, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is dedicating more than $1.8 million to help landowners remove these native, but invasive, trees from 4,500 acres of Wallowa Countyâs private lands. The work got started this week.
The 6 Ranch, just west of Enterprise, will be among the first landowners to take advantage of the new NRCS Ecological Function Restoration juniper treatment program.
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December 30, 2020
It’s a climate story because it’s about what happens when powerful people declare war on science.
Now that war on science has become a driving force among an increasingly paranoid and violent wing of a major political party.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. The leader of the Parker Republicans was posting the names and home addresses of public health employees online with veiled threats of retribution for COVID-19 restrictions.
Mark Hall, lead co-chair of the Parker Republicans, began publishing the names and home addresses of public health workers Monday, adding, “Take this information and make your own decisions.”
“We will publish the names/addresses of these people with no law enforcement abilities,” Hall posted to the Facebook group. “If they want a war, we can give them that but it is time for a revolution.”
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Congressman-elect dies of COVID-19 days before being sworn in - Luke Letlow, 41, was supposed to be sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives on Sunday. Instead, his family is planning his funeral. The 9th-generation Louisianan had just won the runoff for the House seat on December 5. He announced on December 18 that he tested positive for COVID-19. He was hospitalized on Dec. 19, then transferred to ICU on December 22 when his condition worsened. Letlow died Tuesday evening. He had no underlying conditions. CNN reports that there were 124,686 coronavirus patients in hospitals Tuesday, the most reported on a given day during the pandemic. (Politico, NPR, New York Times)