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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.
Hi
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WORLD CITIES
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds breaking for
some sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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National Summary: Much of the East will stay summerlike today. Drenching showers and
storms will affect areas from Texas to Wisconsin. 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
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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
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Louisville
82
Memphis
87
Miami
88
Milwaukee
80
Minneapolis
71
Nashville
82
New Orleans
84
New York City
82
Oklahoma City
81
Omaha
75
Philadelphia
85
Phoenix
101
Portland, ME
73
Providence
81
Raleigh
87
Rapid City
59
Reno
88
Sacramento
87
St. Louis
85
Salt Lake City
74
San Diego
72
San Francisco
66
Seattle
78
Tucson
98
Washington, DC 86
Wichita
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Rules aim to protect sage grouse habitat in 10 states
By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. —
Interior Secretary Sally
Jewell
revealed
plans
Thursday
to
preserve
habitat in 10 Western states
for an imperiled ground-
dwelling bird, the federal
government’s
biggest
land-planning effort to date
for conservation of a single
species.
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
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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
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develop their own plans for
conserving habitat.
Republicans in Congress
criticized the plans as federal
overreach.
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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
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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.
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habitat for the greater sage
grouse across the Western
U.S. totals an area about
the size of Colorado. The
Interior Department has
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that range as priority habitat,
including areas that could
have restrictions on develop-
ment.
Restrictions would vary
between states. Wyoming,
with as many as 500,000
greater sage grouse, is home
to more of the birds than any
other state by far.
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