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<p>As Jimi Yamaichi kicked up the dust along the barbed-wire fence, the long-buried memories of his years at the Tulelake internment camp rose in a flood of emotion.</p> <p>It had taken more than four decades for the San Jose native to muster the courage to revisit the site where his family was imprisoned during World War II.</p>

<p>GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Faced with legal and political obstacles, managers of the Klamath Basin national wildlife refuges have given up trying to move commercial farming off land that was once marsh used by Pacific Flyway waterfowl.</p> <p>"The laws the way they are and the politics the way they are, farming is going to be part of our life," said Phil Norton, manager of the national wildlife refuges straddling the Oregon-California border. "We are trying to work with the local community."</p>