COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019
Couple quarrels over money
spent on their granddaughter NE Oregon forests get nod
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
for carbon sequestration
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are
upon us to take him grocery shopping and to
retired and fi nancially comfortable. I have
various appointments. When we take him, he
my spending money, and he has his. The
often adds additional stops without asking
problem is, he doesn’t want me to spend any
ahead of time, which turns a quick trip into
money on my granddaughter.
a marathon shopping excursion.
I pick her up from school every day, give her
We still work part-time, while Hank is re-
an afternoon snack, and on Friday, we stop and tired. He is procrastinating about buying an-
get something special. My husband thinks my
other vehicle, citing various reasons why he
daughter should pay for my gas and provide
can’t fi nd the right one, and we are becoming
snacks for her child. I disagree.
exhausted from driving him
I love doing things for my
around. We have mentioned
DEAR
granddaughter and buying
several times that he needs to
ABBY
things for her every once in a
get a vehicle; his response is,
while. When I do, he goes nuts,
“It’s not easy.”
packs up his clothes and goes to
We feel sad that our friend-
his camp. After a few days he will call.
ship has taken this turn. We have tried to
I have lived with this behavior all our
be as helpful as possible, but our patience is
married life (55 years). He has fussed so
wearing thin. What do you suggest?
many times and made me so depressed, I
— WORN OUT IN THE SOUTHWEST
just want to die. He says he loves me, but I
DEAR WORN OUT: I suggest you stop
wonder. If he loved me, he would want me to
making yourselves so available when Hank
be happy — doing things with my grand-
asks for transportation. If you do, it may stim-
daughter and getting her pretty things every ulate him to look more diligently for a new
now and then because it makes me happy.
vehicle, or explore other rideshare options.
I don’t go out and get my hair or nails
done. I don’t drink or smoke, and we don’t
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have
go out to eat at expensive restaurants. His
had the same roommate, “Milo,” for four
complaining is driving me crazy, and I can’t
years. Two years ago, he started dating my
live like this anymore. She’s 10 and growing
husband’s ex-girlfriend. It was no big deal,
up so fast. All I want is to enjoy her the little
my husband was fi ne with it, and Milo never
while I have left. Advice?
brings her over. In the time they’ve been see-
— BLOCKED GRANDMA ing each other Milo has refused to fully com-
IN LOUISIANA mit to her. He doesn’t see other people, but he
DEAR GRANDMA: After 55 years of
doesn’t call her his girlfriend.
tolerating your husband’s tantrums and
Today my husband told me Milo won’t
controlling behavior, I seriously doubt you
commit to her because he thinks it would
are going to get him to change. You can,
bother me if she were around our house all
however, change the way you react to it. If
the time. He’s right. It would. I’m not in love
you have money of your own, he does not
with the idea of my husband’s drop-dead
have the right to tell you how to spend it.
gorgeous ex hanging out at our house.
Let him go camping, and while he’s gone,
Am I being selfi sh? I want our roommate
enjoy your time with your granddaughter.
to be happy, and I’m not sure how to proceed.
If he “goes nuts” — which I assume means
Must I just suck it up? I mean, I’m married
becomes verbally abusive — leave the room. for heaven’s sake.
Ask yourself whether you are better off
— SELFISH ROOMMATE
with this man or without him. And if you
DEAR ROOMMATE: I don’t think you
truly cannot live like this anymore, talk to
should acquiesce to anything that makes
an attorney and explore your options.
you uncomfortable. You’re making a mistake
by assuming responsibility for the fact that
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have a
Milo won’t commit. He’s a grown man and
friend of 35 years I’ll call Hank. Hank had
responsible for his own choices. The current
an accident three months ago. His vehicle
arrangement is working for all of you, and
was totaled, and he has been depending
you should stay out of it.
weather
EO Media Group
CORVALLIS — A study
by Oregon State University
researchers has identifi ed
forests in the western
United States, including
in Northeast Oregon, that
should be preserved for their
potential to mitigate climate
change through carbon
sequestration, as well as to
enhance biodiversity.
The study showed that
not logging those forests
would be the carbon dioxide
equivalent of halting eight
years’ worth of fossil fuel
burning in the western
lower 48, the scientists
found, noting that making
land stewardship a higher
societal priority is crucial
for altering climate change
trajectory.
The fi ndings, published in
Ecological Applications, are
important because capping
global temperature increas-
es at 1.5 degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels,
as called for in the 2016
Paris Agreement, would
maintain substantial pro-
portions of ecosystems while
also benefi ting economies
and human health, accord-
ing to scientists.
“The greater frequency
and intensity of extreme
events, such as wildfi res,
have adversely affected
terrestrial ecosystems,” said
study co-author Beverly
Law, professor of forest eco-
systems and society in the
OSU College of Forestry.
“Although climate change is
impacting forests in many
regions, other regions are
expected to have low vulner-
ability to fi res, insects and
EO Media Group fi le photo
Some forested areas in the foothills of the Wallowa
Mountains, especially on the southwest side, have
been recognized by researchers as being able to se-
quester large amounts of carbon.
drought in the future.”
Law, Oregon State forest-
ry professor William Ripple,
postdoctoral research
associate Polly Buotte and
Logan Berner of EcoSpatial
Services analyzed forests in
the western United States
to simulate potential carbon
sequestration through the
21st century.
The fi ve-year study sup-
ported by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture’s Na-
tional Institute of Food and
Agriculture identifi ed, and
targeted for preservation,
forests with high carbon
sequestration potential, low
vulnerability to drought,
fi re and beetles, and high
biodiversity value.
Largely through the
burning of fossil fuels, which
releases the greenhouse
gas carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere, the Earth
has already warmed by 1
degree Celsius. Arctic sea
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
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High: 80°
Low: -38°
Wettest: 1.64”
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PRECIPITATION (inches)
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38% of capacity
66% of capacity
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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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Brookings
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48/38/r 47/37/pc
Bend
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Boise
49/38/c 53/32/c
Brookings
51/41/r 49/39/c
Burns
46/26/c 41/19/c
Coos Bay
50/41/r 49/36/c
Corvallis
48/39/r 46/33/c
Council
40/26/c 43/24/pc
Elgin
45/34/c 43/30/c
Eugene
50/40/r 46/34/c
Hermiston
59/42/c 47/35/c
Hood River
48/38/r 44/34/c
Imnaha
48/36/c 47/28/pc
John Day
49/35/c 44/27/c
Joseph
43/32/c 42/25/c
Kennewick
59/41/c 47/35/c
Klamath Falls 44/29/r 38/24/sh
Lakeview
45/29/r 41/22/sf
Juntura
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Medford
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Ontario
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On Dec. 20, 1836, in central Illinois, the
temperature dropped from 40 degrees
to zero between noon and 1 p.m. Arctic
cold fronts killed many settlers heading
westward through the Plains.
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Ely, Minn.
Fort Myers, Fla.
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Low: 10°
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Roseburg
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Brothers
46/49
Coos Bay
Powers
41/49
Oakridge
Huntington
36/42
Chiloquin
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Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Elkton
31/40
35/45
Seneca
Bend
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Lowest relative humidity
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Evapotranspiration
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Council
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very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
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John Day
43/53
Sisters
49/51
43 26
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Baker City
Redmond
45/48
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Halfway
Granite
45/48
Newport
38 21
2
43/54
43/46
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Corvallis
Enterprise
38/44
39/44
Monument
39/51
Idanha
Salem
43 25
3
39 44 34
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
2
Elgin
40/45
La Grande
44/52
Maupin
Cloudy and
breezy
47/54
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
44/52
Hood River
50/58
TIllamook
Breezy early;
cloudy
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Walla Walla
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Vancouver
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TONIGHT
ice is declining at the fast-
est rate in 1,500 years, sea
levels have risen more than
8 inches since 1880, and
extreme weather events are
becoming more common and
damaging.
Atmospheric CO2 has
increased 40% since the
dawn of the Industrial Age.
According to the National
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Administration’s Global
Monitoring Division, the
global average atmospheric
carbon dioxide concentra-
tion on Jan. 1, was 410 parts
per million, higher than at
any time in at least 800,000
years.
“Smart land management
can mitigate the effects of
climate-induced ecosystem
changes to biodiversity and
watersheds, which infl uence
ecosystem services that play
a key role in human well-be-
ing,” said Buotte, the study’s
corresponding author.
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Pasco
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Portland
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Roseburg
Salem
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The Dalles
Ukiah
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Still cloudy
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EMIGRANT ST. PARK
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Remaining cloudy
31
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
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Cloudy and mild
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