WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny and
breezy
Mostly cloudy
70° 45°
67° 51°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
A passing
afternoon shower
Today
SATURDAY
Cloudy, a shower;
breezy, cooler
Sun, then clouds
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 47°
57° 42°
57° 53°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
68° 48°
72° 44°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
72°
64°
83° (1916)
34°
40°
24° (1897)
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"
0.26"
0.52"
12.55"
9.17"
9.46"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
68°
65°
83° (1963)
Bend
68/44
0.00"
0.18"
0.28"
7.19"
6.33"
6.84"
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6:06 p.m.
4:47 a.m.
5:33 p.m.
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Boardman
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Klamath Falls
72/31
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WSW 10-20
WSW 10-20
SW 7-14
SSW 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
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Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today;
periods of rain across the north.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today
with a stray shower. Cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today.
Cascades: Showers around across the north
today; cloudy in central parts. Partly sunny
in the south.
Northern California: Sun and clouds today.
Partly cloudy tonight.
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Forest-thinning project saved
homes but highlights obstacles
Alexandra Steinmetz/Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project via AP
This 2013 photo provided by the Deschutes Collaborative
Forest Project shows an unidentified worker burning
a pile of collected undergrowth in the Deschutes
National Forest. The thinning of forests in central
Oregon has saved homes amid one of the most
devastating wildfire seasons in the American West.
forest thinning across the
West, where a lack of timber
workers and money are
among the obstacles.
On a recent morning,
Forest Service fire manager
James Osborne drove into
a section of the Deschutes
National Forest outside
Sisters that was thinned in
May. Widely spaced Ponder-
osas were blackened to twice
the height of a person. But
higher up, the bark retained
its normal orangey color.
Needle clusters shone vibrant
green in the sunshine. Four
deer trotted through dappled
sunlight. This part of the
forest looked healthy, not
despite of, but due to, the
prescribed burn.
“Ponderosa pines are
used to low-intensity fires,”
Osborne said. “Every five to
15 years, a fire would come
through. We’re trying to take
it back to low-intensity fires.”
California’s situation is
different because its wild-
fires have generally ignited
in chaparral — brush that
naturally grows densely
packed, said Andrew Latimer,
plant expert at the University
of California-Davis. The
temperate coniferous forests
that burn in large wildfires
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
Nov 10
SISTERS (AP) — Light-
ning started a forest fire one
August afternoon near this
Oregon tourist town, and it
was spreading fast. Residents
in outlying areas evacuated as
flames marched toward their
homes.
Just a few months earlier,
the U.S. Forest Service and a
group of locals representing
environmental, logging and
recreational interests arranged
to thin part of the overgrown
forest, creating a buffer zone
around Sisters.
Workers removed trees
and brush with machines, then
came through on foot to ignite
prescribed burns. That effort
saved homes, and perhaps the
community of 2,500 on the
eastern slopes of the Cascade
Range, by slowing the fire’s
progress and allowing fire-
fighters to corral it.
Scrutiny of the condition of
the American West’s forests,
and of policies that curtailed
logging and suppressed
wildfires, has intensified amid
a devastating wildfire season
that has burned a combined
area bigger than Maryland
and caused widespread
destruction in California’s
wine country.
Until the advent of aggres-
sive fire suppression at the
turn of the last century, forests
were historically shaped by
low-intensity blazes, with the
flames clearing underbrush
but not killing tall trees.
Forests across the West are
now so overgrown they’ve
been called powder kegs.
The work by the Deschutes
Collaborative Forest Project
in central Oregon, where
towns and subdivisions sit in
a green ocean of Ponderosa
and lodgepole pines, shows
the potential of forest
thinning. And it shows how
loggers and environmentalists
— normally bitter enemies —
can join forces.
But it also highlights the
challenges of replicating the
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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
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WINDS
Medford
77/44
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a little rain. Overcast tonight.
Oct 27
Caldwell
68/39
Burns
70/28
PRECIPITATION
Oct 19
John Day
71/44
Ontario
66/38
30°
38°
21° (1999)
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
New
First
Albany
63/48
Eugene
63/46
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
62° 56°
Spokane
Wenatchee
61/38
62/37
Tacoma
Moses
60/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 66/37
63/41
58/46
60/38
69/35
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/43
68/48 Lewiston
70/42
Astoria
72/47
59/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
60/45
Pendleton 67/41
The Dalles 72/44
70/45
66/43
La Grande
Salem
69/44
61/47
Corvallis
62/45
HIGH
61° 43°
Seattle
60/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 49°
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
elsewhere are historically less
dense.
Returning those forests to
their natural state is the goal
of groups like the Deschutes
Collaborative, one of 23
projects in the Collaborative
Forest Landscape Restoration
program created in 2009 by
Congress. Overcoming suspi-
cions and stereotypes was one
of the Oregon group’s first
hurdles.
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
-10s
-0s
0s
showers t-storms
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Aside from thunderstorms in Florida and rain in the Northwest, high
pressure will promote dry weather across the country today. There will be little wind to
hinder firefighters in Northern California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 100° in Chino, Calif.
Low 8° in Dillon, 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
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Today
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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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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Canadian firm plans Vale mushroom farm
By LARRY MEYER
The Argus Observer
VALE — Officials of
Farmers Fresh Mushrooms
were not looking to expand
beyond Canada, but as the
saying goes, one thing led
to another, and now they are
looking to start up a farm
outside of Vale, projecting
employment of around 200
people.
Andrew
Truong,
company project manager,
confirmed that property
just north of Vale has been
purchased and officials are
now working to finalize
their plans, including going
through the permit process
and finalizing their financing
package, which would
include incentives provided
by the state of Oregon.
Company representatives,
including president and CEO
Tan Truong, spent Friday in
Vale holding conversations
with a variety of state agen-
cies, county and city officials,
and utility representatives
to discuss their proposed
mushroom farm.
Andrew Truong said
the company would be
employing people in several
positions, from pickers
and warehouse workers to
mid-management.
According
to
what
Farmers Fresh Mushrooms
presented to Oregon officials,
wages will be at the top of the
agricultural wage scale. To
be eligible for the enterprise
zone, at a minimum, the
company must offer wages
that are 130 percent of family
wages in Malheur County,
said Greg Smith, director,
Malheur County Economic
Development.
However, as is often the
case, there will be a training
wage for new employees,
Smith said.
“They are the real deal,”
Smith said.
“We
didn’t
know
anything
about
Vale,”
Andrew Truong said, when
Smith, came knocking at the
company’s door located in
British Columbia.
Vale City Manager
Lynn Findley said a person
from Sysco Foods of Idaho
mentioned to him that there
was a company in Canada
that might be interested in
moving south and Findley
passed that information onto
Smith, who proceeded to
contact Farmers Fresh.
“We were looking to
expand in Canada,” Truong
said, which it is doing,
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10s
$500 Prize for the winning tree
however, the company is
now looking to expand to
Vale, as well.
Tan Truong, an immigrant
to Canada from Vietnam, said
the company is projecting to
start up its Vale operation in
fall of 2019.
He visited Vale in 1999,
on a visit to the now-defunct
Oregon Trail Mushrooms. At
the time, however, he was
just operating a small farm
himself, having just started
his operation in 1995.
Oregon Trail Mushrooms
has been closed for about 10
years, and the property was
looked at, but Farmers Fresh
officials concluded that was
not going to work for them,
Truong said.
They like Vale and the
support the community is
giving the company, but it
is the incentives that that
will be important to them as
they establish an operation
in the United States, Andrew
Truong said.
Smith said those incen-
tives include being located
with the county enterprise
zone, which provides tax
abatement, as well as likely
support from the Special
Public Works Fund for trans-
portation issues and Strategic
Works Funds.