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Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Fog in the a.m.;
mostly cloudy
Partly sunny and
chilly
35° 28°
35° 30°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy
Chilly with periods
of sun
35° 23°
Chilly with some
sunshine
34° 14°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
36° 31°
36° 31°
PENDLETON
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TEMPERATURE
HIGH
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26°
21°
40°
26°
62° (1933) -11° (2004)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
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HERMISTON
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LOW
John Day
42/29
Ontario
36/27
Bend
37/23
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Burns
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Baker City
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Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
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Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
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Albany
43/34
Eugene
43/34
TEMPERATURE
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Normals
Records
36° 22°
Spokane
Wenatchee
35/25
37/30
Tacoma
Moses
43/30
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 37/28
37/25
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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36/31
Astoria
42/32
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 39/21
The Dalles 36/31
35/28
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La Grande
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Corvallis
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Seattle
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Occasional rain and drizzle
today, mainly across the south; mostly
cloudy.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today; spotty, mostly light snow, ice and rain
central and south.
Western Washington: Periods of clouds
and sun today; patchy fog in the morning.
Mainly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Fog in the morning;
otherwise, mostly cloudy today. A wintry
mix near the Idaho border.
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fl urries with an inch or so, mainly south.
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Bundy, who has acted as the
group’s leader, and believes
the group will eventually
leave peacefully.
Bundy’s brother, Ryan
Bundy, has told Oregon
Public Broadcasting they
will go home if the commu-
nity wants them to go.
“My guess is this thing
won’t last much longer,”
Duquette said.
Duquette said the resi-
dents of Burns are divided
on the 15-or-so armed
protesters. If nothing else,
he said the occupation has
helped raise awareness of the
Hammonds’ case.
“There’s nothing better
than free press. And they got
a lot of it,” Duquette said.
Duquette called the
Hammonds’
sentencing
“the most sickening case of
government overreach I’ve
seen.” The ranchers were
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who spent 37 years with the
Forest Service in Oregon,
Washington and California.
He spoke about the ongoing
Blue Mountains Forest Plan
Revision, which is due for a
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in September.
Price was critical of the
Forest Service for stacking
restrictions that he said have
dramatically narrowed the
window for timber harvest
and management. That’s led
to a major backlog of fuels
driving bigger, hotter wild-
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Service has acted like a
“quasi-dictatorship” at the
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Bundy said the group
felt it had the support of the
local community. But the
county sheriff has told the
group to go home, and many
locals don’t want the group
around, fearing they may
bring trouble. A community
meeting was scheduled for
Wednesday.
So far, law enforcement
has not taken action against
the group whose rallying
cry is the imprisonment of
father-and-son ranchers who
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Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum, holds a rile as he they haven’t threatened
guards the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday anybody that I know of,”
near Burns.
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police commander who
owns 53 percent of Oregon, transfer didn’t make sense.
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sional Research Service. because it is in the people’s “There’s no hurry.”
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lands in Idaho could cost (DUGOH\VDLG³(YHU\ERG\LQ Citizens for Constitutional
the state $111 million a the United States owns that Freedom said it wants an
year, according to a Univer- land. ... We manage it the inquiry into whether the
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of
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Management for recreating, for grazing, Dwight Hammond and his
spokesman, said the group’s for energy and mineral devel- son, Steven, reported back to
prison Monday.
call for land ownership opment.”
convicted of arson after
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federal land, burning 140
acres total.
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initially refused to impose
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minimum sentence, arguing
cruel and unusual punish-
ment. However, that ruling
was overturned on appeal
and the Hammonds were
resentenced in October.
The Hammonds turned
themselves in on Monday,
though Duquette believes
they will be released early.
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bat for the ranchers.
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think they were done wrong.
Constitutionally, I don’t think
it was legal what happened.”
In a separate presentation,
the tea party heard from Dave
Price, a retired district forester
rain
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The FBI in Portland
referred calls to the Harney
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ment it had no information
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and a backpack, told reporters
he would stay at the entrance
to the refuge overnight so
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Bundy said they would take
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group’s plan to get the land
turned over to local control.
But Finicum said the group
would examine the under-
lying land ownership trans-
actions to begin to “unwind
it.”
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controls about half of all
land in the West, which
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He said the group intends to
reach out to timber executives
and county commissioners to
come up with a local plan to
invoke coordination with the
feds.
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now before it’s too late.
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said. “It’s your land. And you
have a big investment.”
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on what charges the men will face
is leading the response to
the situation at the refuge,
meeting Wednesday after- while he is focused on the
noon. He says he wants protection of people in
to talk directly to local the town of Burns and the
residents, and hear their surrounding communities.
concerns about the occupa-
Sheriff’s deputies from
tion.
across Oregon have come
The FBI is handling a to Harney County to assist
criminal case against the with patrols and commu-
armed men occupying nity safety.
the refuge since Saturday,
“These folks aren’t
and has told Ward that the here to harass the citizens
men will face charges. of Harney County,” Ward
The sheriff still believes a said of the outside police.
peaceful resolution to the “They’re here to help us
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maintain a safe and secure
“The bureau has assured environment while we work
me that those at the Malheur through the issues at hand.”
National Wildlife Refuge
Ward said in the months
will at some point face prior to the occupation,
charges,” Ward said.
Bundy’s group had made
Ward did not give a number of people who
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the men will face.
Land Management and
“They have an oppor- U.S. Fish and Wildlife
tunity right now to work Service feel uncomfortable,
towards a better solution, following them or their
and not face further family members around
charges,” he said.
and photographing their
Ward said that the FBI homes.
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