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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mostly sunny and very warm Partly sunny and very warm Partly sunny and very warm 88° 62° 87° 61° MONDAY TUESDAY Windy with a t-storm in spots A shower and t-storm around PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 89° 60° 75° 52° 70° 48° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 92° 63° 90° 63° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 83° 73° 100° (1934) 49° 49° 31° (1918) 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 0.00" 1.29" 1.23" 4.42" 6.47" 6.34" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records HIGH LOW 86° 75° 102° (1934) 51° 50° 37° (1954) 0.00" 1.35" 1.01" 3.14" 3.77" 5.00" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last June 2 June 9 New 76° 51° Spokane Wenatchee 80/59 88/62 Tacoma Moses 78/48 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 89/60 81/57 62/49 79/46 91/60 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 78/51 90/67 Lewiston 92/62 Astoria 88/64 63/49 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 84/57 Pendleton 81/57 The Dalles 92/63 88/62 91/62 La Grande Salem 82/57 83/55 Albany Corvallis 82/52 83/53 John Day 83/54 Ontario Eugene Bend 86/56 82/54 83/52 Caldwell Burns 85/59 82/52 Medford 90/62 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 79° 55° Seattle 78/53 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 91° 60° 5:11 a.m. 8:34 p.m. 4:36 p.m. 3:11 a.m. First June 16 June 24 Klamath Falls 82/50 Today Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today; a thunderstorm in parts of the area near the Cascades. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, but low clouds followed by some sun at the coast. Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine today; a thunderstorm in spots in the north in the afternoon. Cascades: Partly sunny and warm, a thun- derstorm around this afternoon. Northern California: Low clouds followed by some sun at the coast today; partly sunny elsewhere. 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Cool rain will fall on the northern Plains. Storms will dot the Appalachians and Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 101° in Needles, Calif. Low 27° in Bodie State Park, Calif. NATIONAL CITIES Today Hi 83 84 75 86 63 82 84 70 84 84 82 84 77 63 85 95 72 61 83 85 83 86 76 97 87 80 Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Lo 58 66 64 65 49 66 61 58 68 64 62 65 66 46 68 65 48 37 70 71 67 66 60 71 68 60 W pc t pc t sh t pc pc pc t t t t t t pc s c sh t pc s t s t pc Hi 80 86 78 88 77 85 89 81 84 86 64 81 79 71 77 91 77 62 84 84 77 86 69 100 81 80 Sat. 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The proposal would affect energy development. The regulations would require oil and gas wells to be clustered in groups of a half-dozen or more to avoid scattering them across habitat of the greater sage grouse. Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors that eat sage grouse. Some will say the plans don’t go far enough to protect the bird, Jewell said. “But I would say these plans are grounded in sound science — the best available science,” she said at a news conference on a ranch near Cheyenne. Sage grouse are chick- en-sized birds that inhabit grass and sagebrush ecosystems in 11 states from California to the Dakotas. The rules would not apply to a relatively small area of habitat in Washington state. The bird’s numbers have declined sharply in recent decades, and some environ- mentalists warn they are at risk of extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wild- life Service faces a court-or- dered deadline of Sept. 30 to decide whether the greater sage grouse needs protection as a threatened or endan- gered species. Many Western lawmakers and representa- tives of the oil-and-gas and agriculture industries say a Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accu- rate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966- 0818. threatened or endangered listing would devastate the region’s economy. Congress voted late last year to withhold funding to implement any listing until September 2016. Other measures pending before U.S. lawmakers aim to post- pone any federal listing for ¿YH \HDUV RU PRUH DV VWDWHV develop their own plans for conserving habitat. Republicans in Congress criticized the plans as federal overreach. ³7KLV LV MXVW ÀDW RXW wrong,” said U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. “The state plans work. This proposal is only about controlling land, not saving the bird.” But Wyoming shows that sage grouse and energy development can co-exist, Jewell said. It is a top oil, natural gas and coal producer with a sage grouse conserva- tion strategy being copied by other states and the federal government. “There is no future for our economy if we don’t take care of the sage grouse,” said Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, a Republican who took part in the announcement. “That’s a fact. Some like it, some don’t.” Several environmental groups welcomed the plans. “The sage grouse’s listing under the Endangered Species Act is an outcome from which no one stands to gain, least of all public lands sportsmen,” said Land Tawney, executive director of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. In what some envi- ronmentalists view as an accommodation to industry, the rules would not seek to block development across sage grouse habitat. The government still intends to honor valid and existing rights to develop resources on that land, the Interior Department said. Even so, the Western Energy Alliance, a Denver- based petroleum industry advocacy group, pledged to support the federal legisla- tion to postpone any sage grouse listing. “The economic impact of sage-grouse restrictions on just the oil and natural gas industry will be between 9,170 and 18,250 jobs and $2.4 billion to $4.8 billion of annual economic impact across Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming,” said Kathleen Sgamma, the alliance’s vice president Karaoke with Ron Martin! A local favorite May 30, 7 pm - 10 pm In the Red Lion Lounge of government and public affairs. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management expects to adopt the new measures by late summer. They would apply to federal lands in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. )HGHUDOO\ LGHQWL¿HG habitat for the greater sage grouse across the Western U.S. totals an area about the size of Colorado. The Interior Department has FODVVL¿HGDERXWWZRWKLUGVRI that range as priority habitat, including areas that could have restrictions on develop- ment. Restrictions would vary between states. 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