WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Nice with plenty of
sunshine
Pleasant with
plenty of sunshine
72° 44°
77° 49°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 49°
83° 54°
84° 59°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
78° 36°
82° 47°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
71°
79°
95° (1892)
40°
51°
25° (1921)
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"
0.35"
0.18"
7.74"
5.66"
8.60"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
75°
80°
96° (1953)
0.00"
0.41"
0.14"
5.40"
3.43"
6.29"
SUN AND MOON
Sep 23
Bend
66/33
Burns
70/32
New
Sep 30
6:31 a.m.
7:10 p.m.
5:27 p.m.
2:49 a.m.
First
Caldwell
71/48
Hi
78
70
66
65
70
68
83
70
78
72
71
71
71
85
70
73
75
78
72
82
71
83
72
67
80
74
78
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
Lo
50
33
33
48
32
38
43
32
36
43
32
36
34
47
45
46
49
37
44
50
28
45
45
30
43
48
37
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
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
70
74
73
62
73
71
81
76
82
75
73
74
71
84
61
64
76
81
77
81
76
82
77
72
80
78
84
Lo
52
29
39
48
30
37
43
42
47
44
32
32
33
47
48
48
43
44
49
51
33
46
47
33
47
53
44
W
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
83
88
81
88
75
57
89
82
83
70
81
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
62
81
65
66
53
44
66
64
66
59
72
W
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pc
s
pc
t
pc
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sh
sh
Wed.
Hi
87
91
81
85
76
53
85
82
82
75
79
Lo
64
79
65
64
52
45
61
65
64
54
75
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WINDS
Medford
85/47
PRECIPITATION
Sep 16
John Day
72/43
Ontario
75/49
50°
49°
31° (2014)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
83/41
Eugene
83/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
86° 58°
Spokane
Wenatchee
72/45
77/49
Tacoma
Moses
78/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 78/39
71/37
77/45
78/40
78/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
80/43
74/48 Lewiston
78/36
Astoria
75/47
78/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
82/50
Pendleton 68/38
The Dalles 78/36
72/44
82/45
La Grande
Salem
71/36
83/45
Corvallis
83/41
HIGH
87° 49°
Seattle
77/52
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
85° 47°
Today
SATURDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
71/32
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear and moonlit tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today;
however, some clouds in the south.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear
and moonlit tonight.
Western Washington: Plenty of sun today.
Clear tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow.
Northern California: Cloudy this morning,
then some sun at the coast this afternoon;
mostly sunny elsewhere.
Oct 8
Wednesday
SW 4-8
W 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today;
pleasant.
Today
NNE 6-12
NW 4-8
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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rain
20s
flurries
30s
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snow
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National Summary: Downpours and heavy thunderstorms will target Florida today.
Showers and thunderstorms will stretch from the Midwest into the central Plains.
Additional thunderstorms will dot the Four Corners region.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 104° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 26° in Stanley, Idaho
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
83
87
79
85
57
90
70
81
86
89
81
85
93
68
83
90
47
59
87
90
83
85
79
89
91
71
Lo
60
71
69
65
41
72
50
65
73
61
64
65
74
49
64
67
36
38
73
74
66
73
61
63
73
58
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Wed.
Hi
81
86
85
92
65
90
71
85
84
89
72
76
93
76
71
90
54
67
86
91
80
84
74
87
92
75
Lo
58
71
67
64
49
72
47
57
71
63
58
60
74
49
54
68
41
52
75
74
63
72
63
66
75
59
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Louisville
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
Hi
89
92
88
79
66
91
88
82
90
66
85
98
81
81
88
59
70
77
89
82
72
70
77
93
88
84
Lo
68
75
77
61
47
70
80
69
68
53
69
74
59
63
66
45
44
52
70
57
63
57
52
67
72
64
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Wed.
Hi
89
92
89
70
66
90
91
88
85
71
91
98
82
83
90
72
76
82
84
72
73
72
78
93
94
78
Lo
69
75
78
58
52
70
78
63
68
60
66
72
52
58
70
50
45
53
69
52
62
56
52
66
70
66
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Man cleared in refuge
standoff expected
charge to be dropped
Oregon Conservation easement
program will seek $4.25 million
PORTLAND (AP) — A the return to federal prison of
man who had been charged two Harney County ranchers
in connection with the occu- convicted of setting ire to
pation of a national wildlife federal land. Bundy and
refuge says he holds no ill supporters went from there to
will against prosecutors and the refuge.
that he knew he would not be
“I was in absolute opposi-
found guilty.
tion to it,” Santilli said during
Peter Santilli tells The Saturday’s interview. “I was
Oregonian/OregonLive upset because he (Ammon
that he knew his charge Bundy) hadn’t told me they
of
conspiracy
were going to take
would not stick.
over buildings.”
Prosecutors iled a
Santilli said his
motion last week to
opposition to the
dismiss the charge.
takeover
would
When
the
have been his
government loated
defense at trial.
the idea of a plea
He said enhanced
agreement, Santilli
audio
of
his
was not having it.
recorded coverage
“I would rather
of the protest
spend a year
proves he said he
ighting to get my Peter Santilli
disagreed with the
cases dismissed
takeover.
or a deal for time served,”
Santilli said he was
Santilli said. “I’m not going completely ready for trial
to be strong-armed into but now, after nearly eight
pleading guilty to something months in county jail, he’s
I didn’t do.”
OK with the outcome.
The 50-year-old is an
“I do not have one ounce
independent
broadcaster of bitterness at all,” he
from Cincinnati, Ohio, who said. “Maybe because of
live-streamed the occupation my courage in pushing the
of the Malheur National boundaries on my show, I
Wildlife Refuge, which knew the First Amendment
began Jan. 2 and lasted for 41 would protect me. I knew the
days. He contends he covered Department of Justice would
the protest as a journalist do the right thing in the end,
and stayed at the Silver Spur and they did.”
Motel rather than the refuge.
Santilli still faces more
Eleven of 26 defendants serious federal charges in
indicted in the refuge Nevada in connection to an
takeover case entered guilty April 2014 armed standoff
pleas. Seven are in trial. with federal oficers who were
Seven others are set for trial thwarted from taking cattle
in February.
belonging to senior patriarch
Santilli said he didn’t and controversial Nevada
support the takeover of rancher Cliven Bundy in
the refuge and instead had Bunkerville, Nevada. Santilli
supported Ammon only in the said he has the same faith he
Jan. 2 protest in Burns where will be exonerated before a
they demonstrated against jury in those proceedings.
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Oregon legislators will
likely be asked for $4.25
million next year to pay
for conservation easements
that would protect farmland
from development.
Plans are beginning to
solidify for the Oregon
Agricultural
Heritage
Program, which would
provide grants to farmers
interested in easements and
succession planning, said
Meta Loftsgaarden, execu-
tive director of the Oregon
Watershed Enhancement
Board.
OWEB, which will
oversee the program, plans
to hold “listening sessions”
this autumn based on
concepts developed by
agricultural and conserva-
tion groups before drafting
proposed legislation for the
2017 legislative session,
she said.
“We didn’t want to go
out to farmers and ranchers
with a blank slate. We really
wanted to have something
they could react to,”
Loftsgaarden said during
the Sept. 12 Oregon Board
of Agriculture meeting in
Pendleton, Ore.
Conservation easements
are usually sold or donated
by farmers who give up
their development rights in
exchange for tax beneits
and lower property values,
reducing inheritance taxes.
They haven’t been as
commonly used in Oregon
as in other states because
of the statewide land-use
planning system, but this
system alone isn’t enough
to prevent the fragmen-
tation of working lands,
Loftsgaarden said.
The
$4.25
million
wouldn’t
be
enough
funding for everyone who
wanted to sell an easement,
but it would serve as a pilot
program — particularly for
lands inhabited by threat-
ened or endangered species,
or that are subject to “urban
growth boundary” expan-
sion, said Doug Krahmer,
a blueberry farmer who sits
on a work group advising
the program.
The easements will have
a conservation component
and could be used to provide
properties with regulatory
protections, offering an
additional incentive for
farmers, Loftsgaarden said.
Currently, a similar
approach is used for forest-
lands where owners want
to grow trees older than
30 years but are afraid
of creating habitat for
the northern spotted owl,
hindering future timber
harvest, she said.
“They want bigger
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trees, we want bigger
trees, so what we needed
to provide was that
protection,” Loftsgaarden
said, noting that forestland
owners submit management
plans to the Oregon Board
of Forestry and receive
regulatory assurances from
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
OWEB currently funds
conservation
easements,
but these are focused on
preserving native ish
habitat and water quality,
without emphasizing agri-
culture, she said.
For that reason, land-
owners in Oregon have had
trouble getting matching
state funds needed to obtain
federal money available for
buying conservation ease-
ments, Loftsgaarden said.
“We weren’t hitting for
the same target,” she said.
OWEB is funded with
lottery dollars especially
slated for wildlife and
water quality, but the
agency may seek money
from the general fund or
from lottery-backed bonds
that don’t have the same
restrictions, Loftsgaarden
said.
The fund would also be
able to accept donations
from organizations and
individuals, said Krahmer.
Grant requests would
be ranked based on the
duration of the proposed
easement — perpetual
agreements will score
higher than those which
end after a certain number
of years — as well as the
management plan and the
threat of development to the
property, said Loftsgaarden.
The program would be
overseen by a commission
consisting of representa-
tives from the agricultural
industry, the conservation
community, tribes and land
use experts, with OWEB
providing staff support, she
said.
Agricultural groups have
asked why the program
wouldn’t be overseen by
the Oregon Department of
Agriculture while conser-
vationists prefer the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife, Loftsgaarden said.
However, OWEB is
already focused on grants
and has representatives
from both agricultural and
conservation groups, she
said. “OWEB sits sort of in
the middle.”
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