WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
57° 42°
58° 39°
SATURDAY
Cloudy
Mostly cloudy and
mild
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
62° 48°
60° 47°
58° 41°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
59° 41°
61° 35°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
60°
51°
74° (1925)
39°
32°
1° (1993)
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
0.24"
0.24"
0.03"
2.61"
1.55"
2.58"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
53°
53°
69° (1959)
41°
31°
10° (1993)
0.09"
0.09"
0.04"
1.58"
1.06"
2.31"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Mar 8
Mar 15
6:31 a.m.
5:44 p.m.
1:36 a.m.
11:21 a.m.
Full
Last
Mar 23
61° 41°
Spokane
Wenatchee
48/38
51/35
Tacoma
Moses
55/43
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 55/36
52/41
51/47
54/43
55/34
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/48
59/44 Lewiston
59/40
Astoria
58/42
53/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
54/47
Pendleton 51/35
The Dalles 59/41
57/42
52/38
La Grande
Salem
54/41
55/47
Albany
Corvallis 54/48
54/46
John Day
60/44
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
60/39
57/46
57/38
Caldwell
Burns
60/43
53/33
Hi
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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
Hi
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55
58
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62
58
61
59
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52
63
58
62
62
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59
60
Today
Hi
66
67
75
46
65
39
49
60
47
86
50
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
58/37
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Thursday
SW 4-8
WSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Rain today; any time
in central parts, during the afternoon
elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; a shower in spots near the Cascades
during the afternoon.
Western Washington: Variable cloudiness
today with a shower in spots.
Today
WNW 3-6
S 4-8
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Cascades: Rather cloudy today; a couple of
afternoon showers, but dry in central parts.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today;
rain at the coast.
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The House vote on Senate
Bill 1547 on Tuesday largely
followed party lines with
support from Democrats,
although several Republicans
also voted for the bill. Two
lawmakers were excused
from the vote.
Rep.
Jessica
Vega
Pederson, D-Portland, said
it was important to pass
Senate Bill 1547 because it
will impact the type of power
sources the utilities choose to
replace coal. A representative
of Portland General Electric
told lawmakers last month the
legislation could determine
how much the utility relies
on natural gas, as opposed to
variable sources such as wind
and solar, as it phases out
coal power.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, said the legislation had
improved after a series of
modi¿cations by lawmakers
and other interested parties
but still needed more work.
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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
Hi
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54
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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— Steve Pedery, conservation director with Oregon Wild
con¿rmed by ODFW actu-
ally decreased for the second
year in a row.
ODFW also found a new
pack of wolves in southern
Umatilla and Morrow coun-
ties, located in the Heppner
unit. Morgan said they made
the discovery on Jan. 18, and
biologists will try to catch
and collar at least one of the
¿ve wolves to learn more
about them.
“They’re in some pretty
remote area,” Morgan said.
“Undoubtedly, the adults
dispersed from other packs.
That’s how this works.”
The pack hasn’t yet been
named. Morgan said they
were spotted west of Battle
Mountain.
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NATIONAL CITIES
Today
“I think for anyone looking at how the last
few months have gone down, it should be
disturbing that these two poachings were
buried down in this report.”
those wolves in both these
cases are likely the only ones
who know about it,” Brown
said.
Pedery, though, said it
sends the wrong message to
keep quiet about poaching
cases while publicizing
every incident of livestock
predation — especially as
the legislature is considering
whether to af¿rm the state’s
decision to delist wolves.
“I think for anyone looking
at how the last few months
have gone down, it should
be disturbing that these two
poachings were buried down
in this report,” he said.
The 2015 wolf report
highlighted a 34 percent
population
increase
in
Oregon, reaching a minimum
of 110 wolves by the end
of the year. The number of
wolf attacks on livestock
high
The article “Workforce needs study underway for Umatilla County” gave the incorrect
website for the online survey. The correct address is www.surveymonkey.com/r/umatilla-
countyworkforceneeds. An article in Tuesday’s East Oregonian provided an incorrect name
for one of three members reappointed to the state forestry board. Her name is Cindy Deacon
Williams. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any
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of the Mount Emily pack was
killed on public land near
the boundary of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation. By then,
wolves had been taken off the
state endangered species list.
Sgt. Tim Brown, with
the OSP Fish and Wildlife
Division in Pendleton, is
investigating the two open
cases. He said they are not
related, and both happened
in remote areas with limited
access.
“We’re trying to inves-
tigate as thoroughly as we
can, and protect any clues we
have,” Brown said. “We have
leads we’re following. Some
of that stuff just takes time.”
Brown said OSP typically
doesn’t issue releases on
these cases unless they
feel the public can provide
additional information. Since
these two wolves were found
in such isolated country, he
said they didn’t feel it was
necessary. By no means were
they trying to deceive the
public, he said.
“As isolated as they were,
the individuals who shot
110s
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 92° in Zapata, Texas
Low -20° in Crane Lake, Minn.
WOLF: 1umber of attacks on livestock con¿rmed
by ODFW decreased for the second year in a row
Continued from 1A
100s
National Summary: As colder air invades the East, showers will push southward through
Florida today as snow showers occur downwind of the Great Lakes. Rain and mountain
snow will fall over the northern Rockies and High Plains.
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ENERGY: Senate Bill 1547 expands
incentives for biomass power plants
down vote.
There are some differ-
ences between the two bills.
Senate Bill 1547 expands
incentives for biomass power
plants and power plants that
burn garbage, and it allows the
utilities to seek rate increases
to pay for renewable energy
that is up to 4 percent more
expensive than traditional
sources such as natural gas.
House Bill 4036 contains
a 3 percent cost cap and
calls for the Oregon Public
Utility Commission to adopt
regulations that encourage
competitive bidding and
diverse ownership of renew-
able energy facilities.
The legislation ran into
controversy before the legis-
lative session began, when
The Oregonian reported
that Brown’s administration
had instructed public utility
commissioners not to go
public with their concerns
that the bill would be expen-
sive for consumers yet do
little to reduce greenhouse
-10s
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The House vote sets up a
possible duel in the Senate
with a nearly identical bill,
which would also double the
renewable energy mandate
and force 3aci¿Corp and
Portland General Electric to
stop paying for coal power.
Both are scheduled for Senate
votes on Wednesday.
House Bill 4036, which
is already in the Senate, had
stalled there in the face of
a Republican maneuver to
delay a vote. In response,
Democrats stuffed a modi¿ed
version of the bill into Senate
Bill 1547, which received the
House vote Tuesday.
Since an earlier version
of that bill already passed
the Senate, it only needs a
¿nal up or down vote in the
Senate before it would go
to Gov. Kate Brown for a
signature. If the Senate votes
to pass House Bill 4036, it
would still have to go back
to the House for a ¿nal up or
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WORLD CITIES
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Mar 31
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WINDS
Medford
63/45
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
64° 46°
Seattle
55/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 44°
Today
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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