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Rangers end search for man’s
body in Yellowstone hot spring
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rangers
suspended their attempts on Wednesday
to recover the body of a man who
wandered from a designated boardwalk
and fell into an acidic hot spring at
Yellowstone National Park, another in a
string of incidents raising concerns over
visitor behavior.
“They were able to recover a few
personal effects,” park spokeswoman
Charissa Reid said. “There were no
remains left to recover.”
Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland,
was with his sister and had traveled about
225 yards off the boardwalk on Tuesday
when he slipped and fell into the hot
spring in the Norris Geyser Basin, park
oficials said.
After Scott’s sister reported the
fall, rangers navigated over the highly
fragile crust of the geyser basin to try to
recover his body. They halted the effort
Wednesday “due to the extreme nature
and futility of it all,” Reid said, referring
to the high temperature and acidic nature
of the spring.
The death occurred in one of the
hottest and most volatile areas of Yellow-
stone. It follows high-proile incidents at
the rugged park in which tourists got too
close to wildlife or went off designated
pathways onto unique landmarks, some-
times leading to injuries.
“It’s sort of dumb, if I could be so
blunt, to walk off the boardwalks not
knowing what you’re doing,” said
Kenneth Sims, a University of Wyoming
geology professor and member of the
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
“They’re
scoflaws
essentially,
who look around and then head off the
boardwalk,” he added. Sims said he was
speaking generally and had no direct
knowledge of the circumstances of
Scott’s death.
The basin is a popular attraction in
the nation’s irst national park, which
BRIEFLY
Oil removed from
train that derailed
in Mosier
MOSIER (AP) —
Crews have removed the
last of the crude oil from
a train that derailed Friday
in the tiny Columbia River
Gorge town of Mosier.
Greg Svelund with
the Oregon Department
of Environmental
Quality says the oil has
been trucked to The
Dalles, and crews were
working Wednesday to
decontaminate and move
the rail cars off site.
Union Paciic
Railroad spokesman
Justin Jacobs says that
oil will eventually be
taken by train to Tacoma,
Washington, but that won’t
happen until it meets with
the community.
Union Paciic said
Monday it will not move
any new crude oil unit
trains through Mosier until
a cause is determined and
the community is notiied.
However, some trains that
carry mixed goods may
be moving some crude oil
through the town.
By Wednesday
morning, crews moved
two of the 13 derailed
cars off site. More than
400,000 gallons of crude
oil have been trucked from
the site.
AP Photo/Beth Harpaz, File
This September, 2009 ile photo shows the Norris Geyser Basin in
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.
“There were no remains
left to recover.”
— Charissa Reid, park spokeswoman
received a record 4.1 million visitors last
year. Water temperatures there can reach
199 degrees, the boiling point for water at
the park’s high elevation.
At least 22 people are known to have
died from hot spring-related injuries in
and around Yellowstone since 1890, park
oficials said.
Most of the deaths have been acci-
dents, although at least two people had
been trying to swim in a hot spring, said
park historian Lee Whittlesey, author of
the book “Death in Yellowstone.”
Posted signs warn visitors to keep to
boardwalks and trails in thermal areas,
which feature boiling pools, geysers that
can blast hundreds of feet into the air and
toxic gases.
The crust that makes up the ground
in parts of Yellowstone is formed when
minerals underground are dissolved by
the high-temperature water, then rede-
posited on or near the surface.
That crust can be as “thin as a skiff of
ice,” Reid said.
Other recent tourist incidents at
Yellowstone include a 13-year-old boy
who got burned days ago when his father,
who had been carrying him, slipped into
a different hot spring.
In May, a Canadian ilm crew was
accused of leaving an established board-
walk and stepping into a geothermal area
where they snapped photos and took
video of themselves.
Also last month, another Canadian
man loaded a bison calf into his SUV
because he thought it was cold. The calf
later had to be euthanized because it
could not be reunited with its herd.
State advances
plan to test all
schools for lead
PORTLAND (AP)
— Oregon health and
education oficials say
they will team up with
school districts and child
care programs statewide to
help test for lead in school
drinking water.
The plan announced
Wednesday comes on
the heels of belated
disclosures about lead in
the drinking water of some
Portland Public Schools.
That disclosure has
motivated other school
districts around the state
‘Motor voter’ law hopes to add another 145K voters
PORTLAND (AP) —
With the Oregon primary in
rearview and ballot results
soon going into oficial state
record, election oficials are
now freed up to potentially
handle a wave of new registra-
tions under the state’s “motor
voter” law after they touch
base with another 145,000
Oregonians this week.
On Friday, the state will
begin dispersing voter-reg-
istration paperwork by mail
to residents who applied for
or renewed a driver’s license
or state ID card during 2014
and 2015 — steps that, if
instead were taken this year,
would’ve involuntarily added
their names to the voter rolls
through Oregon’s automatic
voter registration system that
began Jan. 1. This week’s
dispersal marks the second
and inal phase of the nation’s
irst “motor voter” law that
scooped up nearly 52,000
new voters through April and
is being replicated in at least
three other states.
But it’s a toss-up how
much phase two could boost
the “motor voter” numbers.
The mail-in system is
largely why the motor-voter
registrants had such a low
turnout during the May 17
presidential primary, which
was open to only Democrats
and Republicans.
Voters are registered
by default as nonafiliated
through the motor vehicle
department, and they can’t
pick a party until later by mail.
Most people, or roughly three
quarters, don’t return their
forms. Thus, only 8,600 were
eligible to cast a Democratic
or Republican presidential
primary ballot, and even
fewer actually did so, making
up a tiny sliver of the roughly
1 million partisan ballots that
were cast last month.
But
party
afiliation
doesn’t matter in the general
election, by which time the
voter rolls will have grown
even more and when Atkins
expects to have a better idea
of the law’s impact. As for
those 145,000 Oregonians
being targeted this week
under phase two, they’ll be
able to register and pick a
party at the same time.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Periods of clouds
and sunshine
Cooler; a p.m.
shower or two
78° 51°
66° 47°
SATURDAY
An afternoon
shower or t-storm
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
MONDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 46°
74° 50°
76° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 51°
72° 52°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
85°
76°
102° (2015)
68°
51°
35° (1910)
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"
0.01"
0.45"
5.60"
4.99"
7.00"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
84°
77°
105° (2015)
68°
52°
40° (1979)
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
0.01"
0.03"
0.21"
4.26"
3.14"
5.35"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
5:06 a.m.
8:43 p.m.
10:11 a.m.
none
Last
New
June 12 June 20 June 27
79° 53°
81° 52°
Seattle
64/50
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
74° 48°
July 4
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
73/51
75/50
Tacoma
Moses
64/46
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 79/52
72/48
61/48
63/45
75/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
62/47
78/53 Lewiston
82/53
Astoria
79/57
62/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
66/54
Pendleton 71/47
The Dalles 81/51
78/51
72/52
La Grande
Salem
75/51
65/51
Albany
Corvallis 66/49
67/48
John Day
78/46
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
87/57
67/47
70/42
Caldwell
Burns
84/57
75/47
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
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WINDS
Medford
79/53
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
72/44
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
couple of showers across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Some sun
today; not as warm in central parts and the
upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today
with a stray shower. A little rain tonight.
Showers tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine
today. Mostly cloudy tonight with a shower
in the area.
Cascades: Some sun today with a couple of
showers. A shower tonight.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by some sun at the coast today; mostly
sunny elsewhere.
Today
Friday
WSW 7-14
WNW 6-12
SW 4-8
SW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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PORTLAND (AP) —
Scientists using moss to
study urban air pollution
have released raw data
measuring concentrations
of metals found in tree
moss samples collected
throughout Portland.
The U.S. Forest
Service’s report released
Wednesday identiied
seven out of 346 sites with
the highest concentrations
of multiple toxic metals in
moss samples relative to
other samples, that need
further study.
The scientists stress
that follow-up air quality
monitoring is needed to
conirm whether metal
concentrations found
in moss collected from
trees are related to
concentrations in the air.
But they say the data can
serve as a screening tool,
and citizens, regulators
and other scientists can
use the information for
further study.
The same moss data
lead Oregon regulators
to test and conirm high
levels of cadmium and
arsenic around two glass
factories in Portland.
The Department of
Environmental Quality
said Wednesday it would
release a statement soon
outlining its next steps.
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to test their water for lead,
which is a neurotoxin.
Now the Oregon
Department of Education
and the Oregon
Health Authority are
recommending that all
schools test for lead over
the summer.
The state will provide
technical support and a list
of certiied labs to test the
water.
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a statewide database built
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National Summary: As chilly air lingers in the Northeast, heat will shift from the West to
the Plains and South today. Downpours will dot Florida, Texas and parts of the Midwest,
Rockies and northern New England.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in Needles, Calif.
Low 28° in Crane Lake, Minn.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
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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Miami
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Milwaukee
74
Minneapolis
85
Nashville
88
New Orleans
92
New York City
73
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
95
Philadelphia
76
Phoenix
105
Portland, ME
62
Providence
72
Raleigh
82
Rapid City
95
Reno
86
Sacramento
86
St. Louis
91
Salt Lake City
92
San Diego
72
San Francisco
68
Seattle
64
Tucson
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Washington, DC 80
Wichita
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