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COFFEE BREAK 8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019 Concern for grandma’s health keeps grandson from visiting New agreements boost OREGON conservation on 2M acres DEAR ABBY: I work and have a family going out to the bars and, because my town and live fi ve hours from where I grew up. My is extremely Catholic, there are only a couple mom isn’t in the best health and neither is of gay-friendly ones. her husband. While I try to visit as often as I Is it OK to not be actively looking for love? can, she always wants me to visit more often, Everyone I know keeps asking me if I have which I understand. found someone, and I keep telling them I The problem is, she keeps asking us to don’t believe in love. I’m content. I don’t do leave our 5-year-old son with her for long anything but work, so I always say I never weekends or to spend a week with her and have time. her husband. They are good Is there something wrong people, but both have physi- with being single all your life DEAR cal limitations. and not having a signifi cant ABBY Would I let my son stay other? I have my cat to love, as with them if one of them was well as my sisters. Does a per- still in good health? Yes. It son have to be with someone is hard for me to explain to her my concern if they are content being alone? Yes, I would that my son would be too much for them to like to go out, but why does it have to be with deal with at this point. If she has a series a partner? of good days, great. If she doesn’t, we would — CONTENT LONER IN MONTANA have a problem, and I’d have to drive back to DEAR LONER: If you are comfortable deal with it. fl ying solo, it is perfectly acceptable to live I have tried explaining nicely, and then your life that way. The people who are other times more directly, that it isn’t that I telling you otherwise may mean well, but don’t want her to spend time with her grand- you do not have to take it to heart. Live children. I’m tired of the guilt trips she tries your life the way you want, do not second- to put on me. I’m also tired of her telling my guess yourself and don’t allow yourself to son to “talk to your mom about staying with be pressured. If you are content, you are me for a week.” doing fi ne. As a child, I was in my son’s position, and I know how it affected me. I just wanted to DEAR ABBY: I am about to be shipped see “Sara,” and I thought Mom and Dad off to basic training for the Army, and I have were mean for not letting me. I do not want heard many horror stories about military my son to feel that way. He’s a child, not a spouses cheating while their signifi cant other pawn in a game. Can you help me explain to is away. Any advice on how to make sure my my mom that my concern is for the safety of relationship doesn’t end up like that? Do you everyone involved? think she will cheat? — SAFETY FIRST — WONDERING IN TENNESSEE DEAR SAFETY FIRST: Have a series of DEAR WONDERING: Having never talks with your little boy. He needs to un- met your signifi cant other, I have no way of derstand that, although Grandma loves him guessing whether she will cheat on you — and wants him to visit, she is not always just as I can’t predict if the reverse will be well enough to look after him properly if true. he does, which is why you won’t allow it. It But this I do know: Communication is isn’t his fault, it isn’t your fault, and it isn’t the key to overcoming the physical distance. Grandma’s. Writing and Skyping as often as you can to If Grandma could come to visit you oc- share what’s going on will keep you from casionally for a few days, it might give her drifting apart. more time with your boy and be good for Will there be more temptations while both of them. you’re separated? Probably. That’s true for both of you. If you plan on spending the rest DEAR ABBY: I am a 46-year-old, single of your life with this person — or anyone — gay man. Although I’ve had a few crushes, you should be confi dent that she’s trustwor- I have never been deeply in love. I don’t like thy. weather By Jes Burns Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Federal wild- life offi cials have entered into agreements with timber companies and the state of Oregon to protect the rare Pacifi c fi sher on nearly 2 million acres of forestland in Oregon. Five companies — Green Diamond, Weyerhaeuser, Roseburg, Lone Rock and Hancock — have signed con- servation agreements with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the past few months. The fi sher is a carnivo- rous mammal related to weasels and mink and once was widely found in the Pacifi c Northwest. But their numbers crashed because of trapping, the use of roden- ticides and destruction of their habitat through log- ging and other development that removed forestlands. The agreements puts on-the-ground conservation measures in place while still allowing timber companies to inadvertently kill fi sher though a provision called “incidental take,” a com- monly employed allowance in federal species protection plans. The agreements’ con- servation measures include things like maintaining a quarter mile radius of undis- turbed buffer around known den sites, leaving downed trees in place to provide habitat and lengthening the time between cutting trees. “The biggest part of these agreements are the mea- sures that these companies are agreeing to do on their Greg Davis/Oregon Public Broadcasting Fishers are rare in the United States. The fi sher is a carnivorous mammal related to weasels and mink and once was widely found in the Pacifi c Northwest. property,” said Fish and Wildlife Service Oregon supervisor Paul Henson. “To increase the retention of cer- tain types of habitat on the property that they otherwise wouldn’t have to do under state forest practice regula- tions.” Currently, privately- owned timberlands in Oregon are regulated under the Oregon Forest Practices Act. “These voluntary conser- vation measures to protect the fi sher, it’s something new to Roseburg, but some- thing that we’ve embraced,” said Mark Wall, land and timber manager for Rose- burg Forest Products. Currently, small na- tive populations of fi shers remain only in Southern Oregon and Northern California, although efforts are underway to reintroduce fi shers from Canada in Washington. AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 35/58 Kennewick 29/57 St. Helens 32/59 29/55 26/53 35/59 34/59 Condon SAT SUN MON TUE Clear and cold Sunny Partial sunshine Clouds and sunshine Partly sunny 55 26 56 22 54 22 Eugene 9 7 7 30/58 55 33 54 31 55 32 9 6 9 La Grande 24 51 27 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 6 4 5 22 49 27 Comfort Index™ 4 51 30 7 6 7 6 ALMANAC NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High: 95° Low: -46° Wettest: 4.41” 43° 4° 43° 5° 44° 8° PRECIPITATION (inches) 0.00 0.11 0.60 7.14 8.22 0.00 0.59 1.23 13.10 12.77 0.00 3.17 1.62 25.85 17.47 HAY INFORMATION SATURDAY 25% SSE at 6 to 12 mph 8.9 0.08 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Thursday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 22% of capacity 29% of capacity 62% of capacity 28% of capacity 26% of capacity 27% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Wednesday) Grande Ronde at Troy Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder Burnt River near Unity Umatilla River near Gibbon Minam River at Minam Powder River near Richland OREGON Brookings Rome 694 cfs 1 cfs 13 cfs 60 cfs 97 cfs 40 cfs SUN & MOON FRI. SAT. 7:31 a.m. 7:32 a.m. 5:40 p.m. 5:39 p.m. 12:31 p.m. 1:22 p.m. 9:25 p.m. 10:22 p.m. MOON PHASES First Nov 4 Full Nov 12 Last Nov 19 New Nov 26 nee R d E O M u, k o d u S , s g n Show Listi , Crosswords rts o p S , h c r a e Word S re...? o M & s e z z i Qu Burns Brookings Boise 24/51 Silver Lake Jordan Valley 20/52 Paisley 23/61 Frenchglen 22/56 Diamond Grand View Arock 21/52 18/49 15/51 Fields 35/71 19/56 Klamath Falls 23/63 Lakeview 21/63 McDermitt Shown is Saturday’s weather. Temperatures are Friday night’s lows and Saturday’s highs. 20/56 RECREATION FORECAST SATURDAY SUN. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 58/41/s 56/44/r Bend 60/29/s 66/32/s Boise 51/28/s 53/33/s Brookings 64/49/s 68/49/s Burns 53/20/s 64/27/s Coos Bay 62/40/s 60/42/s Corvallis 59/33/s 61/39/s Council 48/26/s 51/31/pc Elgin 50/27/s 53/33/pc Eugene 58/35/s 61/39/s Hermiston 50/26/s 53/31/pc Hood River 55/35/s 58/42/pc Imnaha 54/31/s 56/37/pc John Day 56/31/s 58/36/s Joseph 50/28/s 51/32/pc Kennewick 48/27/s 52/30/pc Klamath Falls 63/27/s 66/25/s Lakeview 63/24/s 65/24/s Juntura 18/48 19/59 23/62 Medford 48/64 Ontario 17/49 13/53 41/74 SAT. On Nov. 1, 1861, a hurricane battered the Union fl eet as it tried to attack ports in the Carolinas. On Nov. 1, 1946, a tropical storm drenched Naples, Fla., with almost 8 inches of rain. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 36/65 REGIONAL CITIES WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Beaver Marsh Grants Pass Jacksonville, Fla. Peter Sinks, Utah Crestview, Fla. High: 65° Low: -1° Wettest: none 25/54 22/60 Roseburg 44/71 Brothers 40/68 Coos Bay Powers 23/60 Oakridge Huntington 23/52 Chiloquin High Wednesday Low Wednesday Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Elkton 21/48 20/48 Seneca Bend WED. EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin Wednesday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Florence Council 16/53 28/56 20/59 39/62 Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable. 20/51 John Day 18/62 Sisters 34/62 51 28 19/50 Baker City Redmond 40/59 Halfway Granite 30/59 Newport 38/58 52 32 22/56 34/65 31/59 Corvallis Enterprise 22/49 24/51 Monument 22/52 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 6 Elgin 22/50 La Grande 25/47 Maupin Comfort Index™ 27/49 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 27/51 Hood River 22/49 TIllamook 16 53 22 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Walla Walla 20/48 Vancouver 30/59 32/60 Baker City Wall says the company’s surveys haven’t found any fi shers living on their land in southern Douglas County, the closest Roseburg Forest Products property to the current known range. But the agreement provides an avenue for federal fi sher re- population efforts to include releases Roseburg Forest Products land. “We hope that the habitat that we’re leaving and start- ing to create for them will one day lead to them becom- ing something you’ll fi nd on our property,” Wall said. Wall said the company is training its forest contrac- tors to recognize fi sher dens and habitat. The Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice is currently considering whether to protect the fi sher and its habitat under the federal Endangered Species Act. The voluntary conser- vation agreements could infl uence that decision. City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla SAT. SUN. 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