WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Not as warm
80° 54°
69° 45°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Clouds and sun, a
shower; cooler
A shower possible
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
58° 40°
56° 38°
60° 37°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 47°
84° 56°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
72°
69°
91° (1940)
41°
45°
28° (1922)
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"
0.04"
0.33"
8.25"
4.52"
5.44"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
77°
71°
95° (1987)
0.00"
0.07"
0.35"
5.95"
3.57"
4.34"
SUN AND MOON
May 18
Bend
79/47
Burns
81/44
New
May 25
5:30 a.m.
8:14 p.m.
8:05 p.m.
5:50 a.m.
First
June 1
Caldwell
81/53
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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78
79
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81
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75
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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79
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68
71
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69
68
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
84/50
PRECIPITATION
May 10
John Day
83/54
Ontario
82/53
39°
45°
31° (2010)
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
75/51
Eugene
75/50
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 40°
Spokane
Wenatchee
75/54
78/56
Tacoma
Moses
73/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 81/55
74/53
63/51
73/51
83/54
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
72/53
82/58 Lewiston
84/54
Astoria
80/55
60/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
76/54
Pendleton 75/48
The Dalles 84/56
80/54
83/56
La Grande
Salem
79/53
75/52
Corvallis
75/51
HIGH
63° 42°
Seattle
72/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 42°
Today
SUNDAY
Partly sunny, a
shower; cool
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
78/45
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today.
Cascades: Mild today with clouds and
sunshine.
Thursday
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WNW 10-20
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today;
however, low clouds followed by sunshine
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant across the north and near
the Cascades.
Western Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sunshine today. Rain tonight. Periods of
rain tomorrow.
Today
SSW 3-6
NNE 4-8
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By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The proposed
sale of an expanse of state
forest near the Southern
Oregon coast was halted
unanimously Tuesday by the
State Land Board.
With Tuesday’s decision,
the governor, secretary of
state and treasurer rejected a
planned partnership between
a Native American tribe and
a Roseburg timber company
to purchase the Elliott State
Forest in Coos and Douglas
counties for $220.8 million.
That proposal had elicited
significant opposition from
environmental groups, and in
the process raised questions
about the state’s stewardship
of public lands.
The offer from Lone
Rock Resources and the
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua
Tribe of Indians was
rejected Tuesday in favor of
continued public ownership,
though the details of how
that will work have yet to be
determined.
The
board
initially
considered
selling
the
82,500-acre swath of coastal
forest in 2015 because timber
harvests that provided money
for education were declining
after environmental lawsuits
challenged them.
The Elliott State Forest
is a state trust land and
constitutionally
required
to provide revenues for the
Common School Fund,
which helps pay for public
education.
Oregon Secretary of
State Dennis Richardson
and Treasurer Tobias Read,
each of whom took office
this year, initially supported
moving forward with the
sale at their first land board
meeting in February. That
changed Tuesday when they
both opposed it.
The governor, secretary
of state and treasurer are not
out of the woods yet: They
AP Photo/Tony Anderson/Oregon Department of Forestry, file
This undated file photo provided by the Oregon De-
partment of Forestry shows a stand of trees on the
Elliott State Forest north of Coos Bay.
now need to find a way to
finance public ownership
of the forest and generate
money for education.
Gov. Kate Brown has
proposed using $100 million
in bonds to buy a portion
of the most ecologically
sensitive areas of the forest
— some estimates say that
amount could be used to pay
for about half of the total
acreage — and negotiating
what’s called a habitat
conservation plan with
federal land management
agencies for the remainder.
Read last week announced
a proposal that would build
on the governor’s planned
use of bond funds and have
Oregon State University pay
the remaining $120.8 million
of the forest’s assessed
value to turn the land into a
research forest.
The idea is that foresters
at OSU would study the
relationship between active
forest management and
conserving
endangered
species.
Brown directed the
department to consider
Read’s research forest
proposal, as well as work
with tribal governments
to “explore ownership
or
additional
forest
management opportunities.”
Doug Moore, executive
director of the Oregon
League of Conservation
Voters, called the decision
“a huge win for all and a
reaffirmation of Oregon
values.”
Although environmental
groups, along with Brown
and Read, struck a victorious
tone Tuesday, the Oregon
School Boards Association
said last week that its
member school districts may
sue the board unless the full
assessed value of the forest is
paid to the Common School
Fund.
Jim Green, executive
director of the association,
said after the meeting that
his group would “continue to
monitor these proposals very
closely.”
“Any solution has to
provide full value to the
Common School Fund,”
Green said. “That is what we
owe our kids.”
Richardson suggested a
swapping the Elliott State
Forest for land owned by
federal agencies such as
the U.S. Forest Service
and the Bureau of Land
Management.
During the meeting,
Richardson indicated his
displeasure with the fact that
the state was backing away
from the sale proposal, and
said he thought it was likely
that the state would face
litigation, but said it was
“obvious” that the sale was
not going to proceed.
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National Summary: Chilly showers will linger in eastern New England and the Southwest
today, while rain drenches areas from the central Plains to the southern Appalachians.
Severe storms will erupt over the Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 95° in Pecos, Texas
Low 13° in Doe Lake, Mich.
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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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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
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Jackson County withdraws from
Association of Oregon Counties
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Citing a “lack
of communication, advocacy
and representation,” southern
Oregon’s Jackson County is
withdrawing from a lobbying
organization that represents
the state’s counties.
The Jackson County
Commission will end its
membership in the Associ-
ation of Oregon Counties
at the end of the legislative
session. The move that will
make Jackson the only one
of Oregon’s 36 counties not
represented by the association,
which was formed in 1906.
Colleen Roberts, chair of
the Jackson County Commis-
sion, said its contract with
AOC did not provide a return
on the investment. Counties
pay dues for membership in
the association, which lobbies
on the counties’ behalf.
“The consensus of the
commission was that there
wasn’t a cost benefit, and
state legislative policy would
proceed without consultation
nor consideration of the
impacts to our county,”
Roberts said.
According to an invoice
provided by Roberts, AOC
billed Jackson County for
$25,400 in dues for Jan. 1 to
July 31 of this year.
The source of the dispute
appears to be discussions in
the legislature over whether
Jackson County should
qualify for proposed funding
intended to boost counties that
previously relied on revenues
from timber harvests on
federal land.
According to Roberts,
the commission was frus-
trated with the association’s
representation on House
Bill 3374. That legislation
is something of a response
to the 2015 expiration of the
federal Secure Rural Schools
program, which provided
federal money to counties in
the wake of dwindling timber
harvests.
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House Bill 3374 would
create a county assistance
fund and direct the Oregon
Department of Revenue to
make grants to certain coun-
ties — provided they meet
specific qualifications — that
previously received payments
from the Secure Rural Schools
program.
Roberts says Jackson
County qualified to receive
money from the fund under
the bill, and under an amended
version of the bill.
However, members of
the House Committee on
Economic Development and
Trade, which heard public
testimony on the initial bill
April 5, wondered whether
Jackson County ought to
qualify.
The initial bill said counties
that received an amount from
the Secure Rural Schools
program that was more than
10 percent of total property
taxes in the 2008 fiscal year
could qualify for the grant
program, providing they met
other criteria.
In the 2008 fiscal year,
Jackson County received an
amount from Secure Rural
Schools equal to about 40
percent of its total property
taxes, according to a list
compiled by State Rep. David
Brock Smith, R-Port Orford,
and posted on the legislature’s
website.
State Rep. Pam Marsh,
a Democrat from Ashland
in Jackson County, said at
the time she would support
discussing narrowing eligi-
bility for the payments.
While Jackson County
qualified, Marsh said it did not
necessarily need the money
the legislation could provide.
“Jackson County has
money in the bank, has been
well managed, has established
a library district, people have
stepped up,” Marsh said
during the hearing. “It’s an
example of a county that’s
really pulled itself together
after the decline of payments
from the federal level. I can’t
see any reason why the state
from an objective, external
point of view should a
provide a handout to Jackson
County.”
Roberts
contends
a
representative of AOC “said
nothing” on the county’s
behalf during the hearing.
Laura Cleland, a spokes-
woman for AOC, said it would
not have been appropriate for
Gil Riddell, the association’s
policy director, who was testi-
fying at the meeting, to jump
into the discussion.
“It would have been very
inappropriate to insert himself
into a conversation between
legislators at that stage of the
game,” Cleland said. “They
weren’t asking him.”