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ByJeffBarnard TheAssociatedPress MEDFORD, ORE. A federal magistrate has found the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice needs to speed up work on overdue plans for man- aging wildlife refuges in the Klamath Basin. Conservation groups that filed the lawsuit said Friday they hope the mag- istrate's recommendation, which still needs to be af- firmed by a judge, leads to more of the basin's scarce water going to wildlife, in- stead of potato and onion farms on the Lower Klam- ath and Tule Lake refuges straddling the Oregon-Cal- ifornia border. Bob Salinger of Portland Audubon Society, lead plain- tiff in the lawsuit, said in the course of developing the comprehensive plans, the service will have to show that the farming is com- patible with wildlife. When thousands of birds have been dying from disease linked to the lack of water for marshes where they nest and rest during migration along the Pacific Flyway, it is legitimate to ask whether irrigating the farms instead helps wildlife, he added. The Klamath Water Us- ers Association, which rep- resents farmers on the ref- uge, maintain their water right predates the refuges' by 20 years, and a federal law known as the Kuechel Act allows farms on the two refuges. Greg Addington, execu- tive director of the associa- tion, said he was confident farms would remain on the refuge even after the plan is finished. The comprehensive plan was due in 2012. The service says it can finish by Octo- ber 2017, but U.S. Magis- trate Judge Michael Clarke in Medford wants it by Au- gust 2016, saying the service has not given a good reason for the delay. Fish and wildlife spokes- man Matt Baun said the agency was reviewing its options, and committed to producing a plan as soon as possible. The Klamath Basin is go- ing into a third straight year of drought, making it likely tough decisions will have to be made about sharing scarce water between pro- tected fish, farms and the refuges. KLAMATH Magistrate: Agency too slow with refuges plan DAMIANDOVARGANES—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Officials work on the scene of a vintage airplane that crash-landed on the Penmar Golf Course in the Venice area of Los Angeles on Thursday. By Lynn Elber and Tami Abdollah The Associated Press LOS ANGELES When a man battles Darth Vader, Nazis and other evildo- ers for work, what does he do for fun? Harrison Ford finds his answer in a pilot's license and the freedom to take to the skies. But with adventure comes risk, just as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and other daring movie charac- ters Ford brought to life re- alized. On Thursday, one of Hollywood's pre-eminent stars added a plane crash to an aviation record that includes both mishaps and service to others. Ford, 72, who bat- tled Hitler's henchmen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as dashing archaeologist Jones, was flying a World War II-era plane when it lost engine power shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Air- port near Los Angeles. He crash-landed on a nearby golf course. Bystanders who feared the aircraft might explode or catch fire pulled the ac- tor from the wreckage, and doctors who happened to be playing golf gave him aid, Los Angeles fire officials said. An ambulance then took him to a hospital in fair to moderate condition. "He had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely," Ford spokeswoman Ina Treciokas said. He is expected to make a full re- covery, she said in a state- ment Thursday. No one on the ground was hurt. Ford's son Ben tweeted Thursday evening from the hospital: "Dad is ok. Battered, but ok! He is ev- ery bit the man you would think he is. He is an in- credibly strong man." Ben Ford's publicist, Rebecca Brooks, verified the tweet Friday in an email to The Associated Press. Harrison Ford had a cut to his forehead and scraped arms, but it wasn't clear what internal injuries he might have received, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Butler said. "He wasn't a bloody mess. He was alert," But- ler said. Ford took off at about 2:20 p.m., the NTSB said. A short time later he radi- oed he had engine failure and was making an imme- diate return, according to a recording posted by Live- ATC.net. The plane was flying at about 3,000 feet and hit a tree on the way down, ac- cording to witnesses and officials. The plane, a yel- low 1942 Ryan Aeronau- tical ST3KR, had dam- age mostly confined to the front. "I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed — what we would call — a forced or emer- gency landing, by an un- believably well-trained pi- lot," said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association. Charlie Thomson, a flight instructor at the air- port who saw Ford take off, said engine failure like Ford's does not make the plane harder to maneuver. "It just means you have to go down," he said. Among the first people to reach Ford was a spinal surgeon hitting the links, who said he was stunned to discover the actor at the plane's controls. Dr. Sanjay Khurana said he saw the plane "drop like a rock" about 50 yards in front of him. He ran to the plane and found the pilot stunned and complaining of pain below his waist and with a deep gash in his scalp. Khurana and other golf- ers pulled him from the wreckage, and the doctor assessed his condition. The airport's single run- way sits amid residential neighborhoods,andcitylead- ers and many residents ad- vocate closing it, citing noise and safety concerns. Other planes have crashed into homes, and four people died inSeptember2013whentheir smalljetveeredintoahangar and caught fire. Ford got his pilot's li- cense in the 1990s and has made headlines, though he had never been signif- icantly injured. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing moun- tain climber in Wyoming. In 2000, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off a runway in Lincoln, Nebraska. He and his passenger were not injured. He has also volunteered his services during for- est-fire season, when heli- copters are busy battling blazes. Harrison Ford's love of flight marked by mishaps, service PLANE CRASH NASA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ceres is seen from NASA's Dawn spacecra just a few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration. By Alicia Chang The Associated Press LOS ANGELES After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Fri- day flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle the dwarf planet for more than a year, ex- ploring its surface and un- raveling its mysteries. "It went exactly the way we expected. Dawn gently, elegantly slid into Ceres' gravitational embrace," said Marc Rayman, chief engineer for the $473 mil- lion mission managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab- oratory in Pasadena. Ceres is the second and final stop for Dawn, which launched in 2007 on a voy- age to the main asteroid belt, a zone between Mars and Jupiter that's littered with rocky leftovers from the formation of the sun and planets some 4½ bil- lion years ago. Dawn will spend 16 months photographing the icy surface. It previ- ously spent a year at Vesta exploring the asteroid and sending back stunning close-ups of its lumpy sur- face before cruising onto Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. The 3-billion mile trip was made possible by Dawn's ion propulsion en- gines, which provide gen- tle yet constant accelera- tion and are more efficient than conventional thrust- ers. As Dawn approached Ceres, it beamed back the best pictures ever taken of the dwarf planet. Some puzzling images revealed a pair of shiny patches in- side a crater — signs of possible ice or salt. Scientists hope to get a better glimpse of the spots when the spacecraft spi- rals closer to the surface. It'll also study whether previously spotted plumes of water vapor continue to vent. "There are a lot of se- crets that will be revealed," said mission scientist Lucy McFadden at NASA's God- dard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The spacecraft glided into place at 4:39 a.m. Friday and flight control- lers received confirmation about an hour later. The maneuver occurred with- out a tense moment, unlike other captures that require braking to slow down. 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