WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Sunshine and
patchy clouds
Plenty of sun
60° 38°
60° 38°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
63° 40°
61° 40°
56° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
61° 36°
62° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
70°
60°
86° (1924)
35°
37°
25° (1919)
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"
1.41"
0.83"
13.70"
9.69"
9.77"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
72°
61°
80° (1959)
0.00"
0.79"
0.51"
7.80"
6.68"
7.07"
SUN AND MOON
Nov 3
Bend
62/35
Burns
62/26
7:27 a.m.
5:51 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
11:02 p.m.
Last
New
Nov 10
Nov 18
Caldwell
65/36
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
65
64
62
70
62
57
67
58
62
64
70
58
56
78
65
67
67
63
60
67
63
69
55
58
65
60
65
Lo
44
31
35
53
26
35
43
37
36
40
34
34
32
46
50
49
35
34
38
47
34
44
35
32
44
41
33
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
Hi
68
65
65
67
65
61
68
58
61
69
72
61
60
79
67
69
63
62
60
69
66
70
57
64
66
60
64
Lo
44
29
38
53
27
39
43
37
36
43
36
35
34
43
48
49
35
35
38
45
35
43
37
36
42
42
32
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
62
83
77
63
74
32
66
72
66
76
67
Lo
46
72
58
46
49
28
48
48
47
63
54
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Fri.
Hi
68
83
78
58
75
33
62
70
72
71
69
Lo
48
70
59
43
48
29
42
53
47
60
58
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WINDS
Medford
78/46
PRECIPITATION
Oct 27
John Day
64/40
Ontario
67/35
33°
37°
20° (2002)
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
First
Full
Albany
68/42
Eugene
67/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 29°
Spokane
Wenatchee
55/35
59/37
Tacoma
Moses
62/37
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 61/34
59/39
62/45
60/36
65/33
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/38
60/41 Lewiston
62/34
Astoria
63/41
65/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/47
Pendleton 57/35
The Dalles 62/36
60/38
66/40
La Grande
Salem
58/34
69/44
Corvallis
69/42
HIGH
64° 40°
Seattle
62/45
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 39°
Today
MONDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Thursday, October 26, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
70/34
REGIONAL FORECAST
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Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Mainly
clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. Saturday:
plenty of sunshine.
Cascades: Plenty of sun today. Clear to
partly cloudy tonight. Partly to mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Northern California: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Friday
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today; pleasant. Clear to partly
cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to
partly cloudy today; cooler near the Cas-
cades. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Partly sunny today;
however, areas of low clouds and fog across
the south.
Today
NNE 4-8
NNW 4-8
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain will linger over New England today, while a snowstorm evolves
across Upper Midwest. Cold air will lunge southward over the Plains as snow coats the
Rockies. Most other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 105° in Miramar MCAS, Calif.
Low 13° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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
75
69
63
60
43
73
65
60
69
58
58
56
87
48
54
86
40
45
84
83
62
74
69
86
80
89
Lo
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45
38
26
53
40
45
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38
40
43
48
19
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50
28
25
66
61
48
48
33
61
51
64
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Fri.
Hi
56
73
65
67
55
72
64
61
74
75
47
67
58
43
60
64
36
41
83
71
51
78
43
83
54
88
Lo
37
56
55
46
41
47
40
48
57
50
37
44
37
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23
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69
41
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59
27
60
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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
Hi
66
78
78
57
57
72
78
60
77
64
60
94
61
61
62
43
76
86
76
62
81
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62
92
61
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Lo
53
56
67
41
34
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61
46
39
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51
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Fri.
Hi
63
60
83
48
39
68
81
63
50
43
66
90
61
62
71
45
74
86
49
61
79
78
65
88
68
48
Lo
37
36
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37
28
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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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Cougar sightings increase on Coast Bend businessman Sam Carpenter
announces run for governor
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Yellow signs at trailheads
in Ecola and Fort Stevens
state parks feature a drawing
of a cougar and a blank space
to write the date whenever
the animal is spotted.
Most years these spaces
remain empty, but state
wildlife
managers
say
cougar populations appear
to be increasing elsewhere
along the Oregon Coast,
raising questions about what
is and what could become
cougar country.
An
updated
cougar
management plan, approved
by the Fish and Wildlife
Commission in mid-October,
found that the coast manage-
ment zone has reported a rise
in cougar sightings, as well
as an increase in conflicts
with the big cats.
Now, state biologists
based in Newport are begin-
ning the first-ever coastal
effort to attach GPS collars
to adult cougars and track
their movements to see just
how far these predators
wander, what they eat and
where they might be going
next.
The coast management
zone is a large area that
includes the northern section
of the Cascade Mountain
Range, the Portland, Salem
and Eugene metroplexes
and the rural North Coast.
For years these areas were
written off, not considered
good cougar habitat, said
Derek
Broman,
carni-
vore-furbearer coordinator
for the Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Department.
Sure, the animals were
present, but they existed in
a fragmented region, a mix
of urban and rural where the
lush, rough terrain and rela-
tively limited prey made for
poor habitat. It was the last
place to expect a population
boom.
“Those
might
have
been
some
premature
assumptions,” Broman said.
“They’re not holding true.”
Wildlife managers believe
cougars could be reaching a
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
National Park Service
Cougar sightings have increased on the Oregon Coast.
saturation point elsewhere
in the state, forcing young
animals to seek new terri-
tory. However, on the coast
and in the Willamette Valley,
human populations have
increased along with cougar
populations, opening the
door for potential clashes
and an uptick in sightings.
In the updated cougar
management plan, there are
maps of the coastal zone
sprinkled with dots that
represent the location of dead
cougars — cats killed by
hunters, struck by cars, shot
by wildlife managers after
they threatened human or
animal safety. The mortality
numbers, along with the
ages of the dead cougars, are
one way wildlife managers
estimate the total population.
On one map, showing
cougar mortality from 1987
to 1994, there is a smattering
of dead animals. Each dot
is distinct. In the map for
2006 to 2016, the dots form
thick black clusters in the
south, especially around the
Alsea management area near
Newport where biologists
plan to begin to collar and
tag cougars this fall.
Broman calls the Alsea
area the “front range of
cougar expansion.”
Jason Kirchner, a state
wildlife biologist who is
leading the collaring efforts,
is replicating a study from
northeastern Oregon, an area
known for having a robust
cougar population. The
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Alsea team hopes to collar
10 adult cougars, preferably
five males and five females.
They are curious what they
will discover.
In northeastern Oregon,
male cougars can have a
home range of 78 miles.
But there, the big cats roam
a landscape of open grass-
land and ridges, a different
type of forest. They hunt
Rocky Mountain elk and
mule deer. Cougars on the
coast must navigate a very
different terrain — dense
forests where Roosevelt elk
and black-tailed deer don’t
cover as much ground,
where the undergrowth
tangles and ensnares, where
towns cluster near the ocean
and cities sprawl in the
valleys.
SALEM — Bend busi-
nessman Sam Carpenter
announced
Wednesday
he will challenge Rep.
Knute Buehler for the 2018
Republican nomination for
governor.
“I confidently predict
an enormous political and
economic turn-around for
Oregon as we leave behind
the current failed progres-
sive far-left leadership of
Gov. Kate Brown, and move
forward to an executive
branch that is laser-focused
on serving the people of
Oregon through a smaller,
much more efficient govern-
ment machine,” Carpenter
said in a statement.
Carpenter, 67, is billing
himself the conservative
choice against the more
moderate Buehler, also from
Bend. The primary is in
May.
His campaign motto is
styled after that of President
Donald Trump’s: “Make
Oregon Great Again.”
“Yes, I share President
Donald Trump’s vision of
a society truly in tune and
serving the needs of regular
Americans, not the needs
of the intertwined cabal
of big government, big
business, and big finance,”
Carpenter
Carpenter said. “I’ll fight to
put the power back where
it belongs, in the hands of
Oregon’s citizens.”
Buehler, an orthopedic
surgeon, is known for spear-
heading significant pieces
of bipartisan legislation,
including increasing access
to contraceptives. The two
major reproductive rights
organizations — Planned
Parenthood and NARAL
Pro-Choice America —
nevertheless, have backed
Brown. He declared his run
for governor in early August.
Rebecca
Tweed,
Buehler’s
campaign
manager, said she had no
comment on Carpenter’s
announcement Wednesday.
Carpenter
told
the
Pamplin/EO Capital Bureau
in August that he was
considering a campaign for
governor but was waiting
to see if any candidates with
Trump-minded
agendas
made a bid. If no one else
he could support stepped
up, Carpenter said he would
seek the position.
The winner of the GOP
primary will face off with
Gov. Brown, who is seeking
her second and final term as
the state’s chief executive.
Thomas
Wheatley,
Brown’s campaign adviser,
said Carpenter’s “entrance
into the race will add a lot
more sizzle to the Repub-
lican primary.”
If elected, Carpenter
vows to streamline state
government,
“facilitate
a private sector business
environment that allows a
robust economy” and curb
government “interference in
our personal lives.”
The Bend businessman
is CEO of Centratel national
telephone answering service
and has authored two books
on business management.
He first entered Oregon
politics when he made a
short-lived bid for the GOP
nomination to challenge
Democrat U.S. Sen. Jeff
Merkley, then dropped out
of the race. He also unsuc-
cessfully sought to unseat
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, in 2016. He has
never held elected office.
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