<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Remember when "NO!" meant "NO!"?</div><div><a href="http://www.nomegaloads.com/judgewinmill_ruling_091313.pdf">http://www.nomegaloads.com/judgewinmill_ruling_091313.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Well, about that . . .</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (September 27, 2016) Lewiston Tribune.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Megaloads worry tribe</h1><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some Nez Perce tribal members concerned over shipments</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LAPWAI - A stand against future oversized shipments on U.S. Highway 12 is being called for by some Nez Perce tribal members.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 20 people with the Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment group gathered Monday evening to discuss the issue of megaload shipments traveling on the winding mountain road. The loads can be 200 feet long, weigh about 490,000 pounds and are wide enough to block both lanes of traffic. Members of the group worry the large shipments could eventually start affecting the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Three years ago, the oversized loads were barred from traveling Highway 12. But with the Idaho Transportation Department looking to update rules regarding the large shipments, tribal members are worried the oversized loads will be able to travel the highway again.</span></p><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tribal members and community members blocked the roadway the last time megaloads traveled through the region in 2013 on their way to the Alberta tar sands.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Diane Mallickan, a tribal member, said she hopes it doesn't come to blocking the road, but "if it does, it does."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"They're not going to get through next time," Mallickan said. "We got to do our part and not let them onto the reservation."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Julian Matthews, a tribal member and member of the environmental group, said the problem is determining where the tribe's treaty rights begin.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Where do we have the right to determine what passes throughout our treaty area?" he said. "It's hazy."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While the transportation department wants to change the rules, he said, nothing can legally happen until the process goes through the U.S. Forest Service and the tribe. A written comment period on the megaload proposal is taking place now. A public hearing via video will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the transportation department in Lewiston.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"ITD's trying to change the regulations," Matthews said. "I don't know what their plan is."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We want to get as many people down to these events," Matthews said, adding he wants to get as many people as possible involved and educated on the issue.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matthews said the tribe wasn't consulted the first time a large shipment went through and fears that the tribe won't be consulted this time around. For the tribe, he said it's more than just the value of natural resources, it's about protecting them for future generations.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It should be rejected outright," Matthews said of the transportation department's proposal.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Environmental activist Pam Russell said she's ready to chase an oversized load out of the area.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I chased a megaload all the way into Montana," she said. "Let's do this."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tribal member Pam Eneas said she's ready to chase down megaloads, too.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We don't need any more megaloads," she said. "Highway 12 has been designated a wild and scenic highway. Doesn't that mean anything?"</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eneas wonders why officials are trying to run these big trucks through Indian Country. She lives on Highway 12 and said the road is already narrow enough without a big truck going through.</span></p><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What if one of them runs off the road?" she asked. "The guardrail isn't going to stop them."</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tribal member Elliott Moffett shared that concern.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"They're so huge that if one of those trucks turned over into the river, you can't get any equipment up there to retrieve it," Moffett said.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although the large trucks aren't hauling chemicals and toxins, Moffett said they still have potential to harm the environment.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brett Haverstick, education and outreach director with environmental group Friends of the Clearwater, noted the written comment period on the transportation department's megaload proposal has been extended to Oct. 14.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's really good that we have two more weeks," he said. "We need to hit ITD over the head with a lot of public comments."</span></p></div></div></div></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b><i><u>NO MEGALOADS!</u></i></b></div><div><a href="http://www.nomegaloads.com">http://www.nomegaloads.com</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><i><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is the 'Mouse that Roared,' 'David and Goliath' and 'Avatar' all rolled into one. 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