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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
A morning shower;
mostly cloudy
Warmer
Sunny
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70° 45°
SUNDAY
Partly sunny
Partly sunny and
mild
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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66° 42°
66° 42°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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73° 42°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
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HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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57°
76° (1939)
42°
37°
18° (1965)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.81"
1.07"
2.36"
3.61"
3.58"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
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Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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60°
80° (1939)
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43°
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13° (1965)
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
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Apr 4
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12:38 a.m.
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Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 58/40
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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60/46 Lewiston
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 51/33
The Dalles 64/40
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 64/45
66/45
John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
58/36
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Medford
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24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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70° 39°
Seattle
57/47
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
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Pasco
Pendleton
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Redmond
Salem
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Jerusalem
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Tokyo
Eastern Washington: Cloudy today with a
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Cascades: Sun and clouds today with a
shower in the area; milder.
Northern California: Intervals of clouds
and sunshine today; warmer. Clear tonight.
Plenty of sun tomorrow.
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sion gives us time to continue
work on a long-term plan to
reform federal forest policy”
to create jobs, improve forest
health, and fund schools and
roads.
Boehner spokesman Mi-
chael Steel said the speaker
understood the needs of rural
timber communities and was
committed to renewing the
payments program.
The longstanding subsi-
dies make up for declines
in federal timber revenues
shared with counties since
logging on national forests
was cut back to protect the
northern spotted owl and
salmon in the Northwest.
They expanded from North-
west counties to timber coun-
ties around the country. Set
to decline 5 percent a year,
the subsidies provided about
$100 million to 33 Oregon
counties last year and $500
million nationally. Since 2000
the program has given $2.8
billion to Oregon counties.
low
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In this June 2013 file photo, dead, brown, beetle-killed
trees mix with live trees as a wildfire burns west of
Creede, Colo.
the Senate Budget.
“It is good news the
House leadership has decid-
ed to stop playing politics
with the safety net for Ore-
gon counties,” Wyden said in
a statement.
The House twice passed a
bill last year to ramp up na-
tional forest logging, but it
made no progress in the Sen-
ate, and faced a veto threat
form the White House due to
reduced environmental pro-
tections.
Oregon Democratic U.S.
Rep. Peter DeFazio said the
proposal from Republicans
originally included provi-
sions for changing national
forest policy, which were
dropped after Democrats ob-
jected. DeFazio added some
Democrats who opposed the
payments in the past have
retired, and there was strong
support from rural California
Democrats.
Walden said in a state-
ment, “This two-year exten-
high
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previous research has shown
beetles affect ¿res in other,
more threatening ways.
Trees infested with beetles
have only about 10 percent of
the moisture of healthy trees,
Jolly said. Because they are
drier, beetle-infested trees
are more vulnerable to ignit-
ing from embers or burning
branches carried by wind and
heat waves, he said. “How that
¿re is burning is the most im-
portant thing,” he said.
Nearly 36,000 square miles
of trees have been attacked by
mountain pine beetles in the
West since 1996.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
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Low -11° in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
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weather was unusually hot
and dry.
The study didn’t look at
years with more moderate
weather, but Sarah Hart, the
lead author of the report, said
she believes the results would
be the same if it had.
The study said beetle out-
breaks and wild¿res increased
at the same time but that
drought was behind the wors-
ening ¿res.
Matt Jolly, a Forest Service
research ecologist at the Mis-
soula Fire Sciences Laborato-
ry in Montana, said the ¿nd-
ings are valid but stressed that
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National Summary: Areas of rain and thunderstorms will stretch from the Midwest to
the Southeast states today. Locally severe storms will erupt from Texas to the Ohio Valley.
Showers will dot the Rockies and the Northwest.
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GRANTS PASS (AP) —
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden said
Tuesday that House Speaker
John Boehner has agreed to
include a two-year exten-
sion of subsidies to Oregon
timber counties in a biparti-
san agreement to overhaul
the way doctors are paid by
Medicare.
The Oregon Republican
said the agreement made
good on a commitment he
and Boehner made last De-
cember to secure an exten-
sion of the Secure Rural
Schools program by March
31.
The House is expected
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Thursday. It then would go
to the Senate, where it would
have to be resolved with a
different version.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
said bipartisan Senate support
has already been shown in an
18-4 committee vote that in-
cluded a three-year extension
of Secure Rural Schools in
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Report says beetles don’t make
forests more likely to burn
DENVER (AP) — Moun-
tain pine beetles have left vast
tracts of dead, dry trees in the
West, raising fears that they’re
more vulnerable to wild¿re
outbreaks, but a new study
found no evidence that bug-in-
fested forests are more likely
to burn than healthy ones.
In a paper released Mon-
day, University of Colorado
researchers said weather and
terrain are bigger factors in de-
termining whether a forest will
burn than beetle invasions.
The ¿ndings could pro-
vide some comfort to people
who live near beetle-infested
forests, if those trees are statis-
tically no more likely to burn
than healthy forests.
But the study acknowl-
edged that other researchers
have found that beetles pose
different ¿re risks. Previous
studies by the U.S. Forest Ser-
vice found that once sparked,
beetle-killed trees ignite faster
and burn more quickly than
healthy trees, posing a danger
to ¿re¿ghters.
The new ¿ndings were
published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of
Sciences. Researchers studied
the three worst ¿re seasons
in the past 12 years, when the
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Coastal Oregon: A little rain today; in the
morning in central parts, any time across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. Milder; a shower in spots across the
north.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today.
Mainly cloudy tonight with a shower in
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