WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY A passing shower this afternoon Spotty afternoon showers 50° 38° 59° 37° TUESDAY Partly sunny Partly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 48° 35° 47° 23° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 53° 36° 47° 37° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 53° 36° 45° 31° 71° (1960) -11° (1985) 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 0.12" 1.14" 1.14" 14.84" 11.12" 11.13" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 53/49 Ontario 49/36 Bend 52/44 56° 39° 46° 31° 70° (1959) -11° (1985) Burns 48/34 0.00" 0.78" 0.93" 8.58" 7.85" 8.21" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Dec 3 7:08 a.m. 4:16 p.m. 12:21 p.m. 10:47 p.m. Last New Dec 9 Dec 17 Caldwell 53/43 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 53 49 52 60 48 49 50 49 47 53 58 49 49 56 54 59 49 49 50 50 52 50 46 49 49 49 47 Lo 48 39 44 54 34 43 43 40 37 49 47 46 43 46 49 51 36 37 38 45 40 45 40 41 46 42 37 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. 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W s c pc pc s pc r pc r pc pc Hi 40 71 60 46 70 29 45 60 46 80 63 Lo 21 64 48 41 39 25 39 37 19 70 49 W s pc pc pc s pc pc sh s pc c WINDS Medford 56/46 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 Nov 26 Albany 50/45 Eugene 50/43 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 51° 25° Spokane Wenatchee 46/40 42/35 Tacoma Moses 51/44 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 48/38 47/43 50/47 50/44 47/37 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 51/46 49/42 Lewiston 48/38 Astoria 50/42 53/48 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/45 Pendleton 49/43 The Dalles 47/37 50/38 48/38 La Grande Salem 49/46 50/45 Corvallis 50/43 HIGH 50° 37° Seattle 53/46 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 51° 31° Today WEDNESDAY Mostly cloudy with a few showers 48° 31° Saturday, November 25, 2017 Klamath Falls 58/47 (in mph) Today Sunday Boardman Pendleton NNE 4-8 ENE 4-8 WSW 6-12 SW 8-16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today; arriv- ing in the afternoon across the north. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today with a passing shower, but dry in the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and sun today; a passing shower across the north and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Cloudy today with a touch of rain in the afternoon. Occasional rain tonight. Cascades: Cloudy today. A little rain; any time in the south, in the afternoon elsewhere. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today; a couple of showers around across the far north in the morning. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Wolves have returned after decades, and this time, humans are having a much more contentious discussion about what to do with them. It’s a political debate playing out against the back- drop of a rapidly growing wolf population, a jump in wolf poaching and demands from ranchers and hunters who say the predators are decimating herds and spooking big game. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will vote in January on whether to adopt a new wolf management plan that could eventually open the door for a wolf hunt for the first time since bounty hunting wiped out wolves in the state 70 years ago. Idaho, which has Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP This Aug. 2009, photo shows what ODFW believes is the alpha male OR-4 that bred with B-300 to produce the Imnaha wolf pack in the Imnaha Unit in Wallowa County near Joseph. a much larger population of the animals, allows wolf hunting. Conservationists worry the plan will erode recent progress, particularly given a rash of unsolved poaching cases and an uptick in state-sanctioned wolf killings in response to wolf attacks on livestock. They are adamantly opposed to wolf hunting and say the population is a long way from supporting it. The species lost its endangered status under Oregon law two years ago — when the population hit 81 wolves — and is no longer federally protected in the eastern third of the state. Wolves, which were wiped out in the continental U.S. in all but a slice of Minnesota, also are rebounding in other Western states, prompting similar debates about human co-existence. Oregon wildlife officials have killed or authorized the killing of 14 wolves since 2009, including 10 in the past two years, and 12 more have been poached, including eight since 2015, according to state wildlife officials. “When we had zero wolves 10 years ago, and now when we have 112 wolves, that’s certainly a 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s 30s flurries 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front high low Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 94° in Miramar MCAS, Calif. Low 13° in Alamosa, 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 68 65 59 57 53 64 55 57 70 57 46 48 73 61 47 77 -13 38 82 81 51 73 60 80 68 81 Lo 39 42 44 37 39 39 46 42 47 33 28 33 47 42 30 44 -20 27 73 56 29 48 36 56 38 58 Sun. 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ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com success story — but we’re not done,” said Rob Klavins, a wolf specialist with Oregon Wild, a conservation organi- zation. “Can you imagine if there were only 81 known elk in the state of Oregon, or if there were 81 salmon? We wouldn’t think of delisting them.” Early explorers noted wolves were “exceedingly numerous” in what would become Oregon, and the so-called wolf meetings that led to the region’s first civic government established a bounty for wolves in 1843 that paid $3 per hide. The state later took over the bounty and offered $20 per wolf in 1913 - the equivalent of nearly $500 today. The last bounty payment was recorded in 1947, and the wolf vanished from Oregon for decades. In the mid-1990s, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 1999, a lone wolf wandered into northeastern Oregon. It was trapped and returned to Idaho. Two more were found dead in Oregon in 2000. But the first definitive proof wolves had returned to the state came in 2007, when a wolf was found shot to death. The following year, a wolf nicknamed Sophie by conservationists gave birth to the first litter of pups born in Oregon in decades. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com BRIEFLY Quake recorded off Oregon Coast COOS BAY (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon. The temblor struck Friday at 9:36 a.m., about 108 miles west of Coos Bay. It occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles. There were no reports of injuries or damage. Teens planned to kill new classmate BENTON CITY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say they’re investigating an attempted murder plot involving several students at a southern Washington high school. The Tri-City Herald reports that three 16-year-old students — two boys and a girl — had plotted to kill an 18-year-old classmate on Nov. 15. The classmate, who was not hurt, was lured to the back of a market, where they had planned to kill him with a knife. The Kiona-Benton City School District expelled one boy and the girl the next day. The second boy’s involvement was discovered this week. Benton County Sheriff’s Sgt. Bob Brockman said the older classmate was new to Kiona-Benton City High School and had “disrupted the flow” of the social order. The boy who masterminded the plot has been held at Benton-Franklin juvenile detention center. Central Oregon homicide victim ID’d BEND (AP) — Authorities in Central Oregon identified a 51-year-old man as the victim in a Thanksgiving Day homicide. Crook County Undersheriff James Savage says deputies found the body of Dennis Stewart after being asked to conduct a welfare check in Juniper Acres, an off-the-grid subdivision south of Prineville. No arrest has been made, but Savage says a person of interest has been interviewed and there is no threat to the public. 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