WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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100
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90
105
68
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Fri.
Hi
90
87
86
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92
84
103
90
98
92
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88
85
108
80
78
95
96
93
102
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103
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
77
86
84
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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
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National Summary: Thunderstorms and isolated flash flooding will extend from Texas
to Delaware as flooding continues in Louisiana today. Severe storms will occur from the
Dakotas to Michigan. Storms will dot the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 113° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 32° in Walden, Colo.
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
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Louisville
83
Memphis
83
Miami
90
Milwaukee
86
Minneapolis
88
Nashville
84
New Orleans
90
New York City
85
Oklahoma City
86
Omaha
92
Philadelphia
88
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
86
Providence
87
Raleigh
91
Rapid City
78
Reno
95
Sacramento
95
St. Louis
89
Salt Lake City
95
San Diego
78
San Francisco
74
Seattle
89
Tucson
101
Washington, DC 91
Wichita
90
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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.
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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.
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