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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Sunny and very warm Nice with plenty of sunshine 96° 59° 93° 57° SUNDAY Blazing sunshine and very warm Sunny and pleasant PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 97° 62° 98° 63° 89° 53° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 100° 61° 98° 51° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 92° 87° 108° (2008) 59° 57° 37° (1915) 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" 0.07" 0.22" 7.39" 5.00" 8.21" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 96° 88° 107° (2008) 60° 57° 42° (1969) 0.00" 0.05" 0.11" 4.99" 3.25" 6.06" SUN AND MOON Aug 18 Aug 24 New Sep 1 5:59 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 8:11 p.m. 6:18 a.m. First Sep 9 John Day 95/60 Ontario 99/65 Bend 90/54 Burns 95/49 Caldwell 96/63 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 81 91 90 70 95 89 97 93 100 95 95 93 90 105 68 69 99 99 96 96 94 99 89 88 96 96 100 Lo 63 48 54 54 49 52 60 54 61 60 55 53 51 69 58 55 65 62 59 73 50 67 58 44 70 63 61 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. Hi 90 87 86 71 92 84 103 90 98 92 93 88 85 108 80 78 95 96 93 102 91 103 86 85 101 93 94 Lo 61 41 47 51 46 48 57 52 51 57 49 46 44 68 55 55 59 51 57 66 47 63 58 44 65 60 56 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 77 86 84 77 73 79 79 81 93 70 86 Lo 74 82 69 60 58 61 60 66 79 53 77 W sh r s pc t pc t pc c s t Fri. Hi 86 86 86 70 72 79 77 82 91 73 87 Lo 73 80 70 59 58 64 60 68 79 52 79 W pc t s r t s sh pc c s t WINDS Medford 105/69 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 98/64 Eugene 97/60 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 92° 55° Spokane Wenatchee 89/58 96/66 Tacoma Moses 90/60 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 98/66 91/54 82/54 90/57 100/61 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 91/57 96/63 Lewiston 99/63 Astoria 98/64 81/63 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 96/73 Pendleton 89/52 The Dalles 100/61 96/59 101/65 La Grande Salem 93/53 99/67 Corvallis 98/65 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 101° 65° Seattle 89/66 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 100° 60° Today MONDAY Sunshine and very hot Thursday, August 18, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 95/55 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Sunshine today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Warmer today with plenty of sunshine. Clear tonight. Northern California: Fog, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly sunny elsewhere. Friday N 6-12 NW 6-12 NNE 7-14 NW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds and fog, then sunshine today; warmer across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today with plenty of sun. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, except areas of low clouds and fog at the coast. Clear tonight. Today 1 4 6 6 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. 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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 Hi 87 91 82 89 69 90 96 87 93 82 86 86 84 88 86 94 70 78 87 88 85 94 89 105 81 83 Lo 62 73 73 70 49 74 64 72 76 69 71 69 73 56 69 69 55 59 76 76 71 72 69 79 72 62 Fri. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Oregon, county spar over Groups challenge EPA timber lawsuit seeking $1.4B over river temperatures By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau ALBANY — Linn County shouldn’t be allowed to represent other counties in a lawsuit seeking $1.4 billion from Oregon over its forest management practices, according to the state’s attor- neys. It’s also impractical for the case to proceed as a class action due to the different forest circumstances in each county, the state’s attorneys claimed during oral argu- ments Aug. 17 in Albany, Ore. The county iled a lawsuit against the State of Oregon earlier this year, arguing that insuficient logging had cost 15 counties more than $1.4 billion. The complaint claims these counties turned over owner- ship of forestlands to Oregon in the early 20th Century with the expectation the state would maximize timber revenues, but since 1998, forest managers have instead prioritized wild- life habitat, water quality and recreation values. More than 650,000 acres were donated to Oregon by Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Douglas, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, and Washington counties. Linn County is seeking class action status for the lawsuit, permitting it to repre- sent the other counties in the case. Scott Kaplan, an attorney for Oregon, said the problems in managing the case as a class action would be “enormous.” The counties donated 183 separate parcels of land to the state, each of which contains different slopes, tree types, waterways and federally- protected species, he said. Determining how much timber could have been generated from each parcel would devolve into 183 mini- trials, he said. “How can we decide if revenue has been maximized Hot water killed 250,000 sockeye last year By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian EO Media Group File Linn County is suing the state over how it manages Oregon Forest Trust Lands. The suit, iled on behalf of 15 counties that donated timber land to the state, seeks $1.4 billion in lost revenues. on a particular parcel unless you consider all of those issues?” Kaplan said. Linn County is also an inadequate representative of the other counties for multiple reasons, he said. The litigation costs are currently being paid for by timber groups and lumber companies — Oregon Forest & Industries Council, Sustain- able Forests Fund, Stimson Lumber and Hampton Tree Farms. Linn County is simply lending its name to a lawsuit that actually represents private interests, according to Oregon’s attorneys. “It’s not a public interest case. It’s a case to beneit one particular group,” said Kaplan. Unlike the counties, which appreciate tourism and other beneits from uses besides logging, the timber interests funding the lawsuit primarily want to change the state’s “greatest permanent value” rules for forest management to emphasize harvesting, he said. Much of the alleged damages are for lost future timber revenues, which may force the state to change its logging policies, he said. “That would directly chal- lenge the interests of the other counties,” Kaplan said. The case also doesn’t qualify as a class action because of the lack of “commonality” among the counties, which donated their land to Oregon during different times and under speciic terms, he said. The presence of threatened and endangered species, which constrain logging, varies widely by county and affects the damages calcula- tion, he said. “It’s a complicated issue involving federal agencies,” Kaplan said. Chris McCracken, an attorney for Linn County, rejected the argument there’s a lack of commonality among the counties. They all face the same issues, such as whether the state has violated its contract to maximize timber revenues, he said. The Oregon Department of Forestry does not manage each parcel individually but instead treats them according to regional forest plans, he said. Deciding the counties’ contractual rights collectively is more eficient than trying separate cases with potentially conlicting verdicts, he said. McCracken also disputed that the lawsuit’s funding mechanism should disqualify it as a class action. The Davis Wright Tremaine law irm would be entitled to 15 percent of any inancial award in the case. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Conservation groups from across the Northwest are suing the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency to protect salmon from lethally warm water in the Columbia and Snake rivers. A notice of intent to sue the EPA was iled Monday by Columbia Riverkeeper, Idaho Rivers United, Snake River Waterkeeper, the Insti- tute for Fisheries Resources and Paciic Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association. They accuse the agency of failing to manage river temperatures for the ish, which could lead to massive die-offs. More than 250,000 adult sockeye died due to warm water in the rivers last year, which all but decimated the run upstream. For endan- gered Snake River sockeye, 96 percent of the ish died before passing Lower Granite Dam in Washington and 99 percent died before reaching Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley. “The death of 250,000 sockeye in 2015 was an ugly reminder of what scientists have understood for decades on the Columbia River,” said Miles Johnson, clean water attorney for Columbia River- keeper. “At some point, we are going to run into another real problem like we saw in 2015.” The federal Clean Water Act requires water tempera- tures in the Columbia River to stay at or below 68 degrees to preserve native salmon and steelhead. By July 2015, the temperature had exceeded 72 degrees at Bonneville Dam. Johnson attributed rising river temperatures to opera- tions at the dams, in combi- nation with climate change. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently unveiled improvements at both Ice Harbor and Lower Granite dams meant to cool down water in the ish ladders and improve passage, but Johnson said these are only short-term solutions. “Those things aren’t going to solve the problem, that the average river temperature is becoming too hot for salmon migration,” he said. Columbia Riverkeeper and Snake River Water- keeper signed on to a letter in February asking for the Army Corps to come up with emergency measures to assist ish after the devastating year that was 2015, though Johnson said this lawsuit is meant to address the problem as a whole moving forward. The lawsuit would force the EPA to complete a comprehensive plan addressing temperature in the Columbia and Snake rivers under the Clean Water Act. A formal draft of the plan was developed by the agency in 2000 at the request of Oregon and Washington, and revised as recently as 2003 before it was shelved. Johnson said it was the dam operators that objected to the plan. “Unfortunately, that plan was derailed,” he said. “Essentially, there was a lot of pressure from the Army Corps and other agencies that operate the dams to shelve this study.” A spokesman for the EPA said the agency does not comment on pending liti- gation. The notice of intent provides 60 days for the EPA to reach a settlement, or the lawsuit will proceed in U.S. District Court. “In 50 years, we hope to be teaching our future gener- ations how to catch salmon on the Columbia River, and not explaining to them what salmon were,” Johnson said. THE SALVATION ARMY Celebrates National Thrift Store Day 50% OFF ALL MERCHANDISE! August 18th thru 20th, 2016 1805 S.W. Court Pl. • Pendleton, OR