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
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Sunny
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55 26
56 22
54 22
Eugene
9
7
7
30/58
55 33
54 31
55 32
9
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La Grande
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Enterprise
6
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5
22 49 27
Comfort Index™
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 95°
Low: -46°
Wettest: 4.41”
43°
4°
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5°
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0.11
0.60
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13.10
12.77
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3.17
1.62
25.85
17.47
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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
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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
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97 cfs
40 cfs
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5:40 p.m. 5:39 p.m.
12:31 p.m. 1:22 p.m.
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20/52
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Arock
21/52
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Fields
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23/63
Lakeview
21/63
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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
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Union fl eet as it tried to attack ports in
the Carolinas. On Nov. 1, 1946, a tropical
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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
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Low Wednesday
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Elkton
21/48
20/48
Seneca
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Wednesday
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Year to date
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Florence
Council
16/53
28/56
20/59
39/62
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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
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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.
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Meacham
Medford
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Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
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57/36/s
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58/39/s
56/33/pc
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50/27/s
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59/37/s
71/40/s
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59/33/s
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49/33/s
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