WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
Partly sunny,
breezy and cool
75° 52°
70° 46°
SUNDAY
Partly sunny and
cool
Mostly sunny and
nice
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
72° 47°
68° 46°
73° 52°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
78° 55°
74° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
80°
84°
101° (1967)
50°
54°
30° (1907)
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"
0.43"
7.39"
5.01"
8.42"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
85°
84°
101° (1967)
56°
53°
38° (1964)
0.00"
0.05"
0.20"
4.99"
3.26"
6.15"
SUN AND MOON
Sep 1
Sep 9
Full
6:17 a.m.
7:33 p.m.
6:33 a.m.
7:47 p.m.
Last
Sep 16
Sep 23
John Day
79/48
Ontario
86/56
Bend
71/44
Burns
79/41
Caldwell
85/56
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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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Showers across the north
today; low clouds followed by some sun
elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; pleasant. Mostly cloudy tonight with
a shower in the area.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
into tomorrow with showers. Saturday:
mostly cloudy.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a couple of showers in the north and toward
the Cascades.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today with a
shower during the afternoon. A shower
tonight.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of
sunshine elsewhere.
Today
Friday
WSW 7-14
W 7-14
WSW 10-20
WSW 12-25
UV INDEX TODAY
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Killing of wolf pack
leads to death threats
bigger and more mature. He
praised the ranchers’ cooper-
ation.
Jack Field, vice president
of the Washington Cattlemen’s
Association, said Tuesday
he sees steady progress in
acceptance among ranchers in
working with the department
and using nonlethal methods
to avoid conlict with wolves.
Many producers, he noted,
are successfully operating
in what is once again wolf
country, after the carnivores’
more than century-long
absence.
Wolves were exterminated
in Washington in the early
1900s. Wolves began recolo-
nizing the state in 2008, when
the irst packs were conirmed
in Washington, from popu-
lations in Idaho and British
Columbia.
There were about 90
wolves in the state as of
early 2016, most of them
documented in packs in north-
eastern Washington.
Since mid-July, WDFW
has conirmed that wolves
from the Profanity Peak pack
have killed or injured six cattle
and probably ive others. The
state’s policy authorizes “lethal
removal” after conirming
that wolves have preyed on
livestock at least four times in
one calendar year, or six times
in two consecutive years.
Department staff had killed
six of the 11 members of the
Profanity Peak wolf pack as of
last Friday. Remaining were
two radio-collared adults, used
by the department to track the
wolves, and several pups.
Wild horse roundup canceled due to wildire
released after the females were given a contra-
ceptive to slow the herd’s growth.
The planned August roundup was also
aimed at protecting sage grouse habitat and
ire restoration projects.
The group Friends of Animals has iled
the lawsuit arguing the roundup was ordered
without an environmental review. It has with-
drawn its motion for a temporary restraining
order due to the cancellation.
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In a later email, he wrote
that Donny Martorello, the
state’s wolf-policy lead, told
him the cattle were turned out
ive miles away and moved to
the den site later.
Oficials
for
Wash-
ington State University on
Wednesday issued a statement
disavowing Wielgus’ original
comments regarding the wolf
den.
“Some of Dr. Wielgus’
statements in regard to this
controversial issue have been
both inaccurate and inappro-
priate,” Washington State
University said in the press
release.
“As such, they have
contributed substantially to the
growing anger and confusion
about this signiicant wildlife
management issue,” the Pull-
man-based school said. “The
statements do not in any way
represent the views or position
of Washington State University
or the WSU College of Agri-
cultural, Human, and Natural
Resources Sciences. These
statements are disavowed by
our institutions.”
Wielgus is an associate
professor and director of the
Large Carnivore Conservation
Lab at WSU.
That rancher and another
producer with cattle near
the Profanity Peak pack had
been taking steps recom-
mended by the department to
avoid conlict with wolves,
Martorello has said, from
deploying range riders to
picking up carcasses to avoid
attracting wolves, and turning
out calves when they were
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
VALE (AP) — A planned roundup of wild
horses in Malheur County has been canceled
due to a rangeland ire in the area.
The Capital Press reports that the cancel-
lation stalls an ongoing lawsuit by an animal
right’s group looking to block the roundup.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management had
planned to gather 100 of the herd’s 200 horses
near Jordan Valley. Of the gathered horses,
half would be adopted out and half would be
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SEATTLE (AP) — The
killing of a pack of wolves
in northeastern Washington
to protect cattle is producing
death threats for people on
both sides of the emotional
issue, The Seattle Times
reported Wednesday.
Researcher Rob Wielgus
of Washington State Univer-
sity this week declined further
comment on the pending
elimination of the Profanity
Peak pack by hunters for the
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife, citing the
death threats.
“My friends in WDFW
have received death threats.
It’s gone tooooo far,” Wielgus
wrote in an email to the news-
paper.
Last week, state Rep. Joel
Kretz, R-Wauconda, told
the newspaper that cattle
producers also were receiving
death threats in the wake of
the controversy.
Wielgus said last week
the conlict with wolves was
inevitable because one of
the ranchers involved had
turned out his cattle on top of
a known wolf den. Wielgus
was challenged on that claim
Monday afternoon by Conser-
vation Northwest, a nonproit
environmental group, which
said it heard the cattle were
turned out ive miles away
from the den and that the den
was not in use.
Asked to respond Monday,
Wielgus wrote: “I can’t under-
stand this. Of course the den
was in use and I have many
photos of cattle on the den.
What gives?”
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
WINDS
Medford
81/53
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
67/54
Eugene
71/52
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
77° 54°
Spokane
Wenatchee
73/49
72/53
Tacoma
Moses
64/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 74/54
72/48
62/54
64/52
73/47
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/55
76/55 Lewiston
79/57
Astoria
80/56
65/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/56
Pendleton 76/45
The Dalles 78/55
75/52
72/53
La Grande
Salem
76/46
68/55
Corvallis
68/53
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
74° 47°
Seattle
64/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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76° 51°
Today
MONDAY
Sunny and
beautiful
Thursday, September 1, 2016
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rain
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snow
ice
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60s
cold front
70s
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90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: A tropical storm will threaten Florida with flooding and tornadoes
today. Storms will dot the coastal Northeast, southern Appalachians, southern Plains and
Four Corners. Showers will dot the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 31° in Leadville, 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
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Louisville
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
86
New Orleans
97
New York City
80
Oklahoma City
81
Omaha
79
Philadelphia
82
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
79
Providence
78
Raleigh
92
Rapid City
85
Reno
88
Sacramento
86
St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Wichita
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U.S. court upholds ban on gun
sales to marijuana card holders
Federal rule bans
the sale of firearms
to illegal drug users
By SUDHIN THANAWALA
Associated Press
SAN
FRANCISCO
— A federal government
ban on the sale of guns to
medical marijuana card
holders does not violate
the Second Amendment, a
federal appeals court said
Wednesday.
The ruling by the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals applies to the nine
Western states that fall
under the court’s jurisdic-
tion, including California,
Washington and Oregon.
It came in a lawsuit
iled by S. Rowan Wilson,
a Nevada woman who said
she tried to buy a irearm
for self-defense in 2011
after obtaining a medical
marijuana card. The gun
store refused, citing the
federal rule banning the
sale of irearms to illegal
drug users.
Marijuana
remains
illegal under federal law,
and the federal Bureau
of Alcohol,
Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives
has told gun sellers they
can assume a person with
a medical marijuana card
uses the drug.
The 9th Circuit in its
3-0 decision said Congress
reasonably concluded that
marijuana and other drug
use “raises the risk of
irrational or unpredictable
behavior with which gun
use should not be associ-
ated.”
The court also concluded
that it’s reasonable for
federal regulators to assume
a medical marijuana card
holder was more likely to
use the drug.
Wilson’s attorney, Chaz
Rainey, said there needs to
be more consistency in the
application of the Second
Amendment. He planned to
appeal.
“We live in a world
where having a medical
marijuana card is enough to
say you don’t get a gun, but
if you’re on the no ly list
your constitutional right is
still protected,” he said.
The 9th Circuit also
rejected other constitu-
tional challenges to the ban
that were raised by Wilson,
including her argument
that her gun rights were
being stripped without due
process.
Paul Armentano, deputy
director of the National
Organization
for
the
Reform of Marijuana Laws,
said the idea that marijuana
users were more prone to
violence is a fallacy.
“Responsible adults who
use cannabis in a manner
that is compliant with the
laws of their states ought
to receive the same legal
rights and protections as
other citizens,” he said.
FIRST FRIDAY…FUN FRIDAY
At the Pendleton
Farmers Market
Friday, Sept 2, 2016
4 p.m. to dusk
On the 400 block
of Main Street
(While the Farmers Market
continues on the 300 block)
The Fun Includes:
• Free Bouncy House
• Health Department booth
• Corn Hole Tourney • $2 for adults, $1 for kids
winners stay in Children’s Museum Activity
Plus, a Beer Garden for the adults,
brought to you by Great Pacifi c
Come on down to the
400 block for some family fun
Courtesy of