of case reports from the department through a public records request.

According to the documents, the hunters often used dogs — sometimes as many as 11. The 50-plus poaching expeditions date back to 2015. The vast majority took place within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, often in remote areas either closed to hunting or in areas where special permits are required.

The Associated Press could not immediately locate contact information for the defendants, and it was not immediately clear if any had obtained lawyers. Several were scheduled to make initial court appearances later this month.

The investigation began with Oregon State Police troopers who were looking into poaching in The Dalles, charging papers filed in Skamania County Superior Court say. Last December, the troopers contacted and interviewed two Longview, Washington, men,Shanay-timpishka.

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Each year, a handful of tourists visit Mayantuyacu to experience the traditional medicinal practices of the Asháninka people. But aside from a few obscure references in petroleum journals from the 1930s, scientific documentation of the river is non-existent. Somehow, this natural wonder has managed to elude widespread notice for over seventy five years. For most Peruvians, the river is only a legend. Geologists dismissed it because they argued that it would take a tremendous amount of geothermal heat to boil even a small section of a river, and the Amazon basin lies 400 miles from the nearest active volcano.

Andrés Ruzo, a geothermal scientist at the Southern Methodist University, had no reason to believe the river exists, but the stories intrigued him. Ruzo first heard about