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Warm Paciic Ocean ‘blob’ facilitated vast toxic algae bloom
SEATTLE — A new study
inds that unusually warm Paciic
Ocean temperatures helped cause
a massive bloom of toxic algae last
year that closed lucrative isheries
from California to British Columbia
and disrupted marine life from
seabirds to sea lions.
Scientists linked the large patch
of warm ocean water, nicknamed
the “blob,” to the vast ribbon of
toxic algae that lourished in 2015
and produced record-breaking
levels of a neurotoxin that is harmful
to people, ish and marine life.
The outbreak of the toxin domoic
acid, the largest ever recorded on
the West Coast, closed razor clam
seasons in Washington and Oregon
and delayed lucrative Dungeness
crab isheries along the coast. High
levels were also detected in many
stranded marine mammals.
“We’re not surprised now
having looked at the data, but our
study is the irst to demonstrate
that linkage,” said Ryan McCabe,
lead author and a research scientist
NOAA Fisheries via AP, File
In this undated ile photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, NOAA re-
searchers pour a sample of sea water containing a brownish toxic
algae into a jar aboard a research vessel off the Washington Coast.
at the University of Washington’s
Joint Institute for the Study of the
Atmosphere and Ocean. “It’s the
irst question that everyone was
asking.”
McCabe and his co-authors
explain how the toxic algae bloom
thrived in their study published in
the journal Geophysical Research
Letters.
BRIEFLY
Ammon Bundy’s lawyers seek to stop trial
Associated Press
of what happened at Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, and Waco,
Texas, were a reason he
wanted to help.
When the occupation was
inally over, two FBI nego-
tiators cried uncontrollably,
“just so thankful to God
no one was hurt,” Graham
testiied.
Banta, 47, followed
Graham to the witness stand,
testifying for two hours.
Banta said his initial reason
for traveling from Nevada
to Oregon was to help out at
Hammond’s ranch because it
was short-staffed.
He testiied that he did
nothing wrong, and it didn’t
appear law enforcement was
overly concerned with an
occupation that had been
underway for three weeks
when he arrived.
“I igured if it was illegal,
they would have nipped it in
the bud,” Banta said.
Banta said he asked that
Graham serve as a negoti-
ator because he had seen him
on Facebook, traveling to
different states and praying.
“I thought that’s what our
country needs,” Banta testi-
ied.
“I igured if it was
illegal, they would have
nipped it in the bud.”
PORTLAND — Ammon
Bundy’s federal conspiracy
trial resumed Thursday
despite a motion from his
lawyers seeking a postpone-
ment until a court rules on
their appeals.
Among other things,
attorneys Marcus Mumford
and J. Morgan Philpot have
taken issue with U.S. District
Court Judge Anna Brown’s
order that the ownership
of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge is not on
trial, and her notice to jurors
that the federal government
owns the refuge that Bundy
and his followers occupied
for 41 days last winter.
Philpot, in a separate
court document, reiterated a
longstanding argument that
Bundy’s pretrial detention
has hindered his defense.
He
also
lodged
complaints
about
the
government’s treatment of
his client during the trial,
saying U.S. marshals have
not allowed Bundy to confer
with attorneys during breaks
and that Bundy has been
denied the use of “normal”
— Jeff Banta, On the occupation
of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge
pens, paper and amounts of
paper.
Philpot said his client is
also not getting enough food.
“Since the beginning of
trial Mr. Bundy has regu-
larly been deprived of meals
and adequate sustenance,
resulting in physical and
mental fatigue beyond what
is normal or allowable under
basic principles of fairness
and decency,” he wrote.
Bundy and six co-defen-
dants have pleaded not guilty
to conspiring to impede
federal employees from
doing their jobs at the refuge
during the standoff. The
occupation followed a rally
protesting the imprisonment
of Dwight and Steven
Hammond, two Oregon
ranchers convicted of arson.
It grew into a wider call for
the government to relinquish
control of the refuge and
other Western lands.
As the appeals await
rulings by the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals,
the trial continued with
testimony from The Rev.
Franklin Graham, who
helped
negotiate
the
surrender of the inal four
occupiers on Feb. 11, two of
whom are on trial.
The FBI initially called
Graham at the suggestion of
Jeff Banta, who is on trial.
Graham had daily phone
calls with the holdouts
before lying his own plane
to Oregon from North Caro-
lina.
Graham testiied he relied
upon God as he tried to
encourage a peaceful reso-
lution. He said memories
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SATURDAY
Clouds and
sunshine
Partly sunny, a
shower or two
71° 44°
65° 37°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
More clouds than
sunshine
Clouds and
sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 38°
65° 47°
64° 41°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 47°
69° 37°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
79°
72°
93° (1932)
49°
45°
28° (1919)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.68"
0.53"
8.07"
5.82"
8.95"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
79°
73°
93° (1967)
47°
43°
25° (1985)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.45"
0.42"
5.44"
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6.57"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Sep 30
Oct 8
Full
Oct 15
71° 50°
70° 43°
Seattle
64/51
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
69° 37°
6:53 a.m.
6:37 p.m.
6:27 a.m.
6:44 p.m.
Last
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Today
TUESDAY
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Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 75/42
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Corvallis 65/47
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John Day
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Bend
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67/33
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Burns
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76/31
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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Newport
North Bend
Ontario
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Portland
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sun and clouds today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partial
sunshine today with a shower in places; not
as warm near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today; a passing afternoon shower
at the coast.
Cascades: Times of clouds and sun today;
cooler in the south.
Today
Saturday
WSW 7-14
NW 6-12
WSW 6-12
W 6-12
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Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today with a
passing shower in the afternoon.
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
Northern California: Cooler today with
clouds and sun; windy in the interior moun-
tains in the afternoon.
PORTLAND (AP) — A
Portland feminist bookstore
is cutting ties with the
TV comedy “Portlandia,”
which used its space to
ilm sketches parodying a
feminist bookstore.
Actors Carrie
Brownstein and Fred
Armisen wore long-
haired wigs and frumpy
clothing as the humorless,
aggressively conscientious
co-owners of the Women
and Women First bookstore
in IFC’s “Portlandia.”
The Portland store,
In Other Words, initially
enjoyed the publicity.
But its front door now
feates a list of several
grievances with the show,
including gentriication.
queer antagonism and
devaluation of feminist
discourse.
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McCabe said.
Kathi Lefebvre, a co-author and
marine biologist at NOAA’s North-
west Fisheries Science Center, said
the bloom resulted in the highest
levels of domoic acid contamina-
tion in the food web ever recorded
for many species.
Domoic acid accumulates in
anchovies, sardines and other small
ish as well as shellish that eat the
algae.
Marine mammals and ish-
eating birds in turn can get sick
from eating the contaminated ish.
In people, it can trigger amnesic
shellish poisoning, which can
cause permanent loss of short-term
memory in severe cases.
Sea lions in California commonly
experienced seizures, a common
sign of domoic acid poisoning,
during harmful algae blooms along
that state’s coast. But 2015 was the
irst year that such harmful effects
were documented as far north as
Washington state, scientists said.
“This is an eye-opener for what
the future may hold as ocean condi-
tions continue to warm globally,”
Lefebvre said.
Seasonal algae blooms are
common each year along the West
Coast, but most are not toxic. The
scientists found that the algae
bloom was dominated by a single
species called “Pseudo-nitzschia
australis” that is highly toxic.
The algae survived and took
advantage of warm, nutrient-poor
conditions set up by the patch
of water that was warmer at the
surface than normal.
Coastal upwelling last spring —
a seasonal event that brings nutri-
ent-rich, cooler waters up from the
deep ocean — provided nutrients
for the algae to bloom into a large
population fairly quickly at sea.
Finally, a series of spring storms
delivered the bloom to the coast.
“While
temperature
isn’t
everything, it’s serving as a decent
proxy,” said McCabe. “We think
there’s a linkage between toxic
events along our coast and climate
variability indices.”
The blob was a one-time event
that was not due to global warming,
“but we are looking at this event as
a potential window into the future
as what conditions could look like,”
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
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National Summary: A storm will persist and continue to cause areas of rain today from
the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic and southern New England coasts. Showers will dot the
Northwest with storms in Florida and the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Chino, Calif.
Low 22° in Hohnholz Ranch, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
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El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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