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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Rather cloudy
Cloudy with a bit
of snow
32° 29°
33° 26°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Cloudy, a little
snow; chilly
Mostly cloudy and
very cold
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
30° 21°
26° 11°
25° 20°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
34° 26°
32° 27°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
43°
26°
39°
25°
68° (1933) -16° (1990)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.49"
1.04"
12.79"
9.84"
12.55"
Corvallis
42/38
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
John Day
33/25
Ontario
20/10
Bend
35/26
40°
22°
38°
27°
70° (1933) -12° (1990)
Burns
22/11
0.00"
1.11"
1.03"
9.01"
6.90"
9.53"
SUN AND MOON
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Jan 5
7:33 a.m.
4:14 p.m.
1:04 a.m.
12:51 p.m.
Full
Last
Jan 12
Jan 19
Caldwell
24/15
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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
43
76
54
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Rather cloudy today and
tonight with a little rain.
Eastern Washington: Rather cloudy today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; cold in the upper Treasure Valley.
Cascades: Considerable cloudiness today;
a bit of snow, accumulating a coating to
an inch.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
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By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
In this Dec. 7 photo, Jim Sproul, a member of the dissolved Grant
County Public Forest Commission, gestures while visiting Malheur
National Forest near John Day. The armed takeover of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and glob-
al headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is
being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not
firearms.
killed by a 2015 fire that burned 43
homes and more than 172 square
miles. He blamed the U.S. Forest
Service, saying it let the forest grow
too thick, allowing the blaze to crown
and become a “huge fireball.” Sproul
wants the agency to open more
burned areas for loggers to salvage
trees.
At the Squeeze-In, commission
members voiced more complaints.
“You’re missing the point,”
growled Commissioner Mike Smith
from beneath the brim of his cowboy
hat. “The point is, they want to make
it so you can’t make a living in rural
Oregon, so you have to leave.”
Others nodded assent.
Commissioner Dave Traylor said
he suspects the government and
environmentalists want to create a
200-mile-wide corridor from Canada
to Mexico, with only animals present
and no humans.
Federal officials say no such plots
exist.
District Ranger Dave Halemeier
noted the Forest Service has increased
its transparency.
“We meet with the public before
we even have an idea of what we
want to do in an area,” Halemeier
said in an interview. “Historically,
we’d come up with a plan and
then present that plan, and now the
public’s involved in developing that
plan.”
Malheur
National
Forest
Supervisor Steve Beverlin said he
had productive talks with a forest
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commissioner about modifying rules
for gathering firewood, but faced
hostility at commission meetings.
“It was difficult to engage because
they wouldn’t share information,”
Beverlin said
Mark Webb, whose petition for
judicial review led to the commis-
sion’s dissolution, said he felt it was
growing too close to Palmer and
his “increasing belligerence toward
federal government.”
The leaders of the wildlife refuge
takeover were planning to meet with
Palmer when officers intercepted
them on Jan. 26. State police shot and
killed LaVoy Finicum as he appeared
to reach for a pistol.
Sproul said he had invited
takeover leaders Ammon and Ryan
Bundy to speak to residents about the
Constitution and states’ rights, with
no ulterior motives.
“Anyone who says there’s a
militia here is a liar,” Sproul said.
“But are there patriotic citizens here?
Hell yes.”
Forest commissioners say no one
informed them of the petition.
Judge W.D. Cramer ruled Sept. 14
that the ballot measure that created
the commission violated the U.S. and
state constitutions and federal stat-
utes. In explaining his ruling, Cramer
said he “may have personal views
that align with many on how public
lands are managed (or not), and
views on how those who live close to
the land should be heard.” But “facts
and the law” dictate a decision.
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National Summary: Spotty snow will affect the Northeast, while spotty rain showers dot
southeastern Florida today. Rain and mountain snow are forecast for parts of the Southwest
and the Northwest. Other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 80° in Marathon, Fla.
Low -9° in Baker City, Ore.
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
39
61
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30
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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
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One year after refuge takeover,
quieter land battle unfolds
JOHN DAY — On a recent wintry
evening, members of the Grant
County Public Forest Commission
walked into the warmth of a rustic
diner and took seats at their customary
table for their bimonthly meeting.
They voiced anger and frustration.
At this meeting, they were officially a
non-entity.
A judge this fall dissolved the
commission at the behest of a former
county supervisor who worried it
was becoming a risk, citing the take-
over of a federal wildlife refuge in a
neighboring county.
While the armed occupation of the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
grabbed the world’s attention, a
quieter struggle over federal lands
is being waged by those trying
to use elections and the levers of
government. Their grandparents and
great-grandparents wrested a living
from the West’s rugged landscape.
But now, the forest commissioners
say, the government is tightening
access to the same natural resources
by closing roads and curtailing
logging and other industries that
allowed previous generations to be
self-sufficient.
The commissioners feel they lost,
by the stroke of a judge’s pen, a tool
voters gave them to fight back.
Kim McKrola, a local, voiced the
concern of many: “I would think we
should have more say, because what
does the federal government know
about what’s going on around here?”
With 1,700 residents, John Day
is Grant County’s biggest town,
named for a fur trapper who in the
early 1800s survived being robbed of
everything by American Indians but
trekked with a compatriot to safety.
The second longest free-flowing
river in the continental United States
also bears Day’s name.
Created by voters in a ballot
measure 14 years ago, the forest
commission was tasked with deter-
mining the fate of public lands, which
comprise 66 percent of the county’s
4,529 square miles.
Hours before the meeting at the
Squeeze-In Restaurant & Deck,
forest commissioner Jim Sproul
drove his pickup up a canyon and
into the Malheur National Forest.
“My great-grandfather came here
in the 1870s. He started the Humboldt
Mine,” the 64-year-old said. A pin
on his cap proclaimed support for
Sheriff Glenn Palmer, a sympathizer
of the refuge occupiers’ cause.
Sproul looked at skeletal trees
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
WINDS
Medford
44/36
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
Dec 28
Albany
43/38
Eugene
43/37
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
28° 20°
Spokane
Wenatchee
31/24
29/21
Tacoma
Moses
44/34
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 30/23
29/26
45/36
42/35
31/22
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
40/37
33/26 Lewiston
34/28
Astoria
30/26
49/39
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
42/37
Pendleton 27/18
The Dalles 32/27
32/29
31/27
La Grande
Salem
29/24
42/37
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
29° 14°
Seattle
45/37
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
33° 20°
Today
MONDAY
Partly sunny and
very cold
Thursday, December 22, 2016
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BRIEFLY
Judge stops logging
on former portion of
Elliot State Forest
EUGENE (AP) — A
federal judge has banned
logging on a former piece of
Elliot State Forest near Coos
Bay.
The Register-Guard reports
that Federal Judge Ann Aiken
in U.S. District Court in
Eugene on Monday issued
a preliminary injunction
barring Scott Timber Co. and
Roseburg Forest Products
from logging the area while
she considers a lawsuit by a
Eugene-based conservation
group.
Cascadia Wildlands in
August filed the suit claiming
Scott Timber and Roseburg
could harm the marbled
murrelet if the companies log
the 355 acres of forest.
The marbled murrelet is a
small seabird that is federally
protected. The bird nests in
older forests in the Coast
Range.
Small quake strikes
east of Salem; no
damage reports
PORTLAND (AP) — A
small earthquake has been
reported east of Salem,
Oregon.
The U.S. Geological
Survey website says the
earthquake happened at 3
a.m., about nine miles from
Sublimity — a small town
west of Silver Falls State
Park.
There have been no reports
of damage, but Brenda
Fuquay Chappell tells the
Statesman Journal that
windows and dishes rattled at
her home in Lyons.
The magnitude 2.5 quake
occurred about 11 miles
beneath the surface.
DOJ: No violations
in sheriff election
BEND (AP) — An Oregon
Department of Justice
investigation found that no
election laws were violated in
the 2016 Deschutes County
sheriff race.
The Bulletin reports that
current Sheriff’s Deputy Eric
Kozowski challenged incum-
bent sheriff Shane Nelson for
the position. Kozowski said
he and his supporters were
harassed and received unequal
treatment.
The DOJ released its
findings in a letter to Nelson
in November. The sheriff did
not distribute the results until
Tuesday.
The letter says Kozowski,
Nelson and 12 others were
interviewed as part of the
investigation and emails
between them were reviewed.
It goes on to say Olson
didn’t find any election laws
broken but did discover a
tense work environment that
was worsened by Kozowski’s
run against Nelson.
The letter says DOJ has
closed the investigation.
Police look for man
who dragged officer
with stolen car
SALEM (AP) — Police
in Oregon are looking for
a man they say dragged a
police officer with a stolen car
and drove the wrong way on
several major roads.
Salem police spokesman
Lt. Dave Okada tells The
Statesman Journal that two
police officers spotted a car
that had been reported as
stolen Monday afternoon.
Officer Eric Moffitt tried to
contact the driver through the
passenger-side door, but the
man suddenly put the car in
reverse and dragged Moffitt
about 15 feet before he was
able to free himself.
Moffitt was hospitalized
and later released.
Witnesses reported seeing
the man driving the wrong
way down several streets.
Officers and police dogs
searched the area but did not
find the man.
Corrections
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