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Interior chief urges shrinking
four national monuments in West
School enrollment continues to fall
East Oregonian
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Inte-
rior Secretary Ryan Zinke
is recommending that four
large national monuments
in the West be reduced in
size, potentially opening
up hundreds of thousands
of acres of land revered for
natural beauty and historical
signifi cance to mining,
logging and other develop-
ment.
Zinke’s recommendation,
revealed in a leaked memo
submitted to the White
House, prompted an outcry
from environmental groups
who promised to take the
Trump administration to
court to block the moves.
The Interior secretary’s
plan would scale back two
huge Utah monuments
— Bears Ears and Grand
Staircase-Escalante — along
with Nevada’s Gold Butte
and Oregon’s Cascade-Sis-
kiyou. The monuments
encompass more than 3.6
million acres — an area
larger than Connecticut
— and were created by
Democratic administrations
under a century-old law that
allows presidents to protect
sites considered historic,
geographically or culturally
important.
Zinke’s plan also would
allow logging at a newly
designated monument in
Maine and urges more
grazing, hunting and fi shing
at two sites in New Mexico.
It also calls for a new assess-
ment of border-safety risks at
a monument in southern New
Mexico.
Bears Ears, designated
for federal protection by
former President Barack
Obama, totals 1.3 million
acres in southeastern Utah on
land that is sacred to Native
Americans and home to tens
of thousands of archaeolog-
ical sites, including ancient
cliff dwellings. Grand Stair-
case-Escalante, in southern
Utah, includes nearly 1.9
million acres in a sweeping
vista larger than the state of
Delaware. Republicans have
howled over the monument
since its creation in 1996
by former President Bill
Clinton.
Cascade-Siskiyou, which
For the third year in a
row, fi rst-day enrollment
at the Pendleton School
District has fallen.
At a Pendleton School
Board meeting Monday,
Superintendent
Chris
Fritsch
presented the fi rst
enrollment report
of the 2017-2018
school year. It
was the board’s
fi rst chance to
take a look at
the district’s raw
headcount for the
fi rst day of school. Fritsch
According to
the latest attendance report,
3,072 students were in class
on the fi rst day of school,
101 fewer students than the
fi rst day of the 2016-2017
school year.
For Michelle Jones,
Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File
This May 2016 fi le photo shows the northernmost
boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along
the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. Interior Sec-
retary Ryan Zinke is recommending that six of 27 na-
tional monuments under review by the Trump admin-
istration be reduced in size, along with management
changes to several other sites.
juts into Northern California,
protects about 113,000 acres
in an area where three moun-
tain ranges converge, while
Gold Butte protects nearly
300,000 acres of desert
landscapes that feature rock
art, sandstone towers and
wildlife habitat for bighorn
sheep and the threatened
Mojave Desert tortoise.
The Associated Press
obtained a copy of the
19-page memo, which was
submitted to the White
House last month and has not
been offi cially released.
Two marine monuments
in the Pacifi c Ocean also
would be reduced under
Zinke’s memo, and a third
monument off the Massachu-
setts coast would be modifi ed
to allow commercial fi shing.
Commercial fi shing also
would be allowed at two
Pacifi c sites, west of Hawaii
and near American Samoa.
President
Donald
Trump ordered a review
of 27 sites earlier this year
after complaining about
a “massive land grab” by
Obama and other former
presidents.
“It’s gotten worse and
worse and worse, and now
we’re going to free it up,
which is what should have
happened in the fi rst place.
This should never have
happened,” Trump said in
ordering the review in April.
National
monument
designations add protections
for lands known for their
natural beauty with the goal
of preserving them for future
generations. The restrictions
aren’t as stringent as for
national parks, but include
limits on mining, timber
cutting and recreational
activities such as riding
off-road vehicles.
No president has tried
to eliminate a monument,
but boundaries have been
trimmed or redrawn 18 times,
according to the National
Park Service.
Zinke’s
recommenda-
tions to pare down the four
Western monuments — and
allow
more
economic
activity at three other sites —
“represent an unprecedented
assault on our parks and
public lands” by the Trump
administration, said Jamie
Williams, president of the
Wilderness Society.
“This callous proposal
will needlessly punish local,
predominantly rural commu-
nities that depend on parks
and public lands for outdoor
recreation, sustainable jobs
and economic growth,”
Williams said, vowing to
challenge in court any actions
by the Trump administration
to reduce the size of national
monuments.
It was not clear from
the memo how much
energy development would
be allowed on the sites
recommended for changes,
but Zinke said in the report
that “traditional uses of the
land such as grazing, timber
production, mining, fi shing,
hunting, recreation and other
cultural uses are unneces-
sarily restricted.”
Oregon Public Broadcasting
With cooler tempera-
tures and rain hitting the
region this week, some fi re-
fi ghters are headed home
Monday. The Chetco Bar
Fire in Southwest Oregon
is 53 percent contained as
of Monday morning, while
the Eagle Creek Fire in the
Columbia River Gorge is
32 percent contained.
“We still have over
7,500 fi refi ghters and
support personnel working
in our region,” said Carol
Connolly, a public infor-
mation offi cer with the
Northwest
Interagency
Coordination Center in
Portland. “But the Eagle
Creek and the Chetco Bar
numbers are down just
slightly.”
Connolly says despite
the rainy weather, crews
are expected to be working
on both fi res for weeks.
The Northwest remains
the nation’s top fi refi ghting
priority.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; breezy
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
64° 49°
59° 44°
THURSDAY
Mostly cloudy and
cool
FRIDAY
Clouds and sun,
showers around
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
60° 42°
64° 42°
67° 43°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
63° 48°
68° 52°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
65°
77°
96° (1898)
52°
49°
28° (1911)
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
0.09"
0.09"
0.28"
11.46"
7.83"
8.66"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
67°
78°
93° (1952)
56°
47°
29° (1965)
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
0.11"
0.11"
0.23"
6.76"
5.44"
6.35"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Sep 19
Sep 27
Full
Oct 5
68° 40°
70° 39°
Seattle
60/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
65° 42°
6:38 a.m.
6:58 p.m.
5:52 a.m.
7:03 p.m.
Last
Oct 12
Today
SATURDAY
Intervals of clouds
and sunshine
Spokane
Wenatchee
54/40
61/43
Tacoma
Moses
60/45
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 66/46
54/40
61/48
61/45
66/40
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/49
60/47 Lewiston
70/54
Astoria
60/44
63/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/52
Pendleton 54/41
The Dalles 68/52
64/49
65/50
La Grande
Salem
58/44
64/51
Albany
Corvallis 64/53
63/50
John Day
58/48
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
62/44
61/49
58/42
Caldwell
Burns
63/51
55/33
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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58
58
59
55
54
61
61
68
58
55
58
55
62
59
61
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66
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Lo
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
61
57
54
58
54
53
58
58
63
56
51
57
53
59
56
59
63
58
59
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56
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25
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
86
91
83
62
77
57
62
69
81
72
81
Lo
55
80
65
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57
45
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91
80
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WINDS
Medford
62/51
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
55/42
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today;
periods of rain, except a passing shower in
the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
and cool today with a shower; breezy across
the north.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today.
A passing shower or two tonight. Periods of
rain tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a touch of rain.
Cascades: Cloudy today with a shower; cold.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 10-20
WSW 10-20
WSW 12-25
W 15-25
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Rain tonight, but a shower in the interior
mountains.
tion to continued work to
control the fi res.
State offi cials warn
travelers to be extra aware
when traveling through
susceptible landslide areas.
The current area of
concern includes Govern-
ment
Camp,
Detroit,
Santiam Pass, Corbett,
Rooster Rock, Multnomah
Falls, Cascade Locks, Hood
River, North Bonneville,
Stevenson, Carson, and
Underwood.
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boosting enrollment one
of the central focuses of
its strategic plan and has
discussed advertisements
and online school as some
of the ways they might
reverse the trend.
It’s been nearly four
years since the district
passed a $55 million facili-
ties bond, and Jones said its
nearly fi nished.
Among the last items
on the district’s checklist,
Jones said the new track at
Pendleton High School and
the demolition of the old
district offi ce are completed
and renovations at the high
school auditorium are nearly
complete.
Jones estimated there
could be $300,000 left
after all the fi nal billings
are received and the district
could further invest in facil-
ities, like new carpeting at
the high school auditorium.
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the district’s director of
business services, it was to
be expected. She said the
fi rst report was in line with
projections — down from a
year ago.
Board member Dave
Krumbein said the district
often gets a small
bump in enroll-
ment following
the Round-Up.
Monday’s
report was repre-
sentative of the
continual down-
ward enrollment
trend the district
has experienced in
recent years.
The
district
tends to end the year with
fewer students than when
they started, and if that
trend holds true, it would
mark a low within the past
10 years.
The district has made
Rain brings relief for Oregon wildfi res
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National Summary: Jose will bring rough surf, gusty winds, above-normal tides and rain to
the coastal Northeast today. Showers and storms are in store from the Great Lakes to Texas.
Rain and snow will affect the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in McAllen, Texas
Low 21° in Hohnholz Ranch, 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
Hi
86
87
73
81
56
88
59
68
88
84
80
82
97
84
75
94
49
77
88
91
83
90
86
91
92
77
Lo
57
70
67
64
40
70
48
63
70
63
65
65
78
47
64
71
35
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77
76
66
69
72
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Wed.
Hi
84
87
83
86
64
87
59
71
91
82
89
83
97
80
81
92
49
72
88
90
89
90
87
91
91
77
Lo
58
70
68
65
44
70
40
64
71
63
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52
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75
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Today
Hi
Louisville
84
Memphis
88
Miami
91
Milwaukee
73
Minneapolis
77
Nashville
86
New Orleans
89
New York City
72
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
87
Philadelphia
77
Phoenix
100
Portland, ME
68
Providence
70
Raleigh
85
Rapid City
75
Reno
72
Sacramento
78
St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
63
San Diego
74
San Francisco
73
Seattle
60
Tucson
97
Washington, DC 82
Wichita
94
Lo
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78
64
67
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61
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Wed.
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Lo
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74
68
73
62
68
75
61
65
67
47
41
51
74
49
66
57
49
70
69
70
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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