WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Low clouds and
freezing fog
Mostly cloudy
34° 20°
35° 19°
TUESDAY
Plenty of sun
Mostly sunny and
chilly
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
38° 21°
38° 23°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
33° 22°
34° 22°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
28°
27°
40°
27°
67° (1915) -11° (1972)
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"
0.07"
0.37"
15.33"
11.66"
11.84"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
47/23
Ontario
30/14
Bend
46/22
32°
30°
41°
28°
72° (2015) -10° (1972)
Burns
35/6
0.00"
0.01"
0.43"
8.77"
8.07"
8.90"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Dec 17
7:24 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
11:30 p.m.
12:14 p.m.
First
Full
Dec 26
Jan 1
Caldwell
31/18
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
Klamath Falls
45/16
Eastern Washington: Low clouds and fog,
freezing early in the day today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Areas of fog,
freezing early today, but sunny in the south.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today. Areas of fog
late tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Low clouds and fog
breaking for some sun today, but partly
sunny at the coast.
Northern California: Plenty of sun today.
Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow.
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Escaped Salem inmate back in custody
on Friday afternoon.
Department of Correc-
tions officials said Hocker
had exited a van and fled on
foot Monday morning.
Hocker was incarcerated
in September at the Coffee
Creek Correctional Facility
in Wilsonville for coercion
and felony assault charges.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
install flow meters and report
water usage to regulators by
no later than Jan. 1, 2019.
Cost sharing opportunities
are available through OWRD
and the Natural Resource
Conservation Service, which
will be discussed at both
meetings.
Justin Iverson, ground-
water section manager for the
department, said the desig-
nation was made to address
declining
groundwater
supplies in the sub-basin,
which includes Milton-Free-
water and Weston.
“We’re
pumping
more than the aquifer is
recharging,” Iverson said.
Iverson emphasized that
exempt groundwater uses
are still allowed in the area,
including domestic use and
stock water wells.
For more information,
contact Iverson at 503-986-
0933 or local watermaster
Greg
Silbernagel
at
541-278-5456.
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SALEM
(AP)
—
Authorities say an inmate
who escaped while being
transported to a work
assignment in Salem is
back in custody.
The Oregon Department
of Corrections says Tualatin
police officers arrested
42-year-old Lorrie Hocker
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; pleas-
ant in the south. Mainly clear tonight.
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Closed major holidays
The Oregon Water
Resources Department will
host a pair of meetings in
Umatilla County to discuss
new water metering require-
ments for farmers in the
Walla Walla sub-basin.
Informational meetings
are scheduled for Monday,
Dec. 11 from 5-8 p.m. at the
Milton-Freewater Commu-
nity Building and Tuesday,
Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to noon
at Weston Memorial Hall.
On May 11, the
Oregon Water Resources
Commission designated the
300,000-acre Walla Walla
sub-basin as a “serious
water management problem
area,” meaning OWRD
will no longer approve new
agricultural wells within the
boundary.
The designation also
requires farmers and ranchers
with permitted basalt wells to
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WORLD CITIES
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
52/30
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
Dec 9
Albany
47/27
Eugene
44/25
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
37° 24°
Spokane
Wenatchee
33/22
32/21
Tacoma
Moses
48/27
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 34/23
37/25
53/36
50/27
36/20
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
49/28
33/23 Lewiston
33/22
Astoria
38/24
56/36
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
48/31
Pendleton 43/21
The Dalles 34/22
34/20
37/26
La Grande
Salem
39/21
48/27
Corvallis
45/27
HERMISTON
HIGH
37° 22°
Seattle
50/35
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
35° 22°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny
35° 20°
Saturday, December 9, 2017
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ice
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high
low
National Summary: A snowstorm will spread slippery travel from the coastal mid-Atlantic
to New England today. Rain will slowly end in South Florida. Snow will coat roads over the
Midwest. Most other areas can expect a dry day.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 88° in Immokalee, Fla.
Low -10° in Lake George, 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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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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Objections on both sides to wolf plan update
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Environ-
mental groups are alarmed
by a proposal that would
authorize lethal control of
wolves in Eastern Oregon
after only two livestock kills
under “extreme circum-
stances.”
The regular threshold
would be three livestock
kills in 12 months, but the
current draft of the Oregon
Wolf Conservation and
Management Plan would
reduce it to two kills if
non-lethal methods proved
ineffective or couldn’t be
implemented.
“It moves too quickly to
lethal control,” said Noah
Greenwald,
endangered
species director for the
Center of Biological Diver-
sity, during a Dec. 8 hearing
in Salem, Ore.
Wolves
in
Eastern
Oregon have been delisted
under the federal Endan-
gered Species Act, but
they’re still regulated by the
state government.
Representatives of live-
stock and hunting groups
also found plenty they didn’t
like about the plan, which the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife is updating.
For example, the plan
sets a minimum population
threshold of 300 wolves
through 2022 but it doesn’t
ensure that any particular
“This irresponsible
and unscientific
plan should be
shelved.”
— Rob Klavins,
Northeast Oregon field
coordinator for
Oregon Wild
zone
doesn’t
become
overpopulated with the
predators, said Todd Nash,
wolf committee chairman
of the Oregon Cattlemen’s
Association.
“Nowhere does it address
a maximum number,” Nash
said.
Ranchers would like
to see the agency create
management units with
caps on wolf numbers, but
these suggestions have been
largely disregarded, he said.
Currently, Oregon is
estimated to have more than
100 wolves.
Based on trends seen
in Idaho and Montana,
however, that number can be
expected to climb steeply in
the coming years, for which
the current draft plan fails to
account, said Jim Akenson,
conservation director for
the Oregon Hunters Associ-
ation.
“I don’t know why in the
world we would not look to
our neighbors to see what
will happen here,” Akenson
said.
The Oregon Farm Bureau
would like to see the plan
provide a greater allowance
for lethal wolf control when
they’re near homes or if
they threaten livestock, pets
and people, said Kevin
Johnson, the organization’s
representative.
The agency should
also increase its focus on
collaring wolves as their
population increases, so
their movements and poten-
tial livestock interactions
would continue to be moni-
tored, he said.
Ranchers feel the plan
is overly prescriptive in its
wolf management policies
despite expectations of a
surging population, Johnson
said. “They don’t feel like
their positions are being
heard.”
Environmental groups,
on the other hand, claim
the plan is overly reliant on
lethal wolf control, which
they say is often ineffective.
“Lethal control has often
not stopped depredations,”
said Nick Cady, legal
director for Cascadia Wild-
lands.
The loss of a top pack
member can cause the
remaining wolves to become
increasingly
desperate
and more likely to attack
domesticated livestock, said
Greenwald of the Center for
Biological Diversity.
“There’s
increasing
science that it creates more
problems than it fixes,” he
said.
The current draft plan
doesn’t benefit anyone
“whether they’re wearing
cowboy hats or driving
Priuses,” said Rob Klavins,
Northeast Oregon field
coordinator for Oregon
Wild.
“This irresponsible and
unscientific plan should be
shelved,” he said.
Scientists
who
the
agency found credible
enough to cite in the plan
have objected to how their
research
was
applied,
Klavins
said.
“Those
scientists deserve a direct
response.”
Corrections
A quote was incorrectly attributed to Dr. Ajit Jetmala-
ni in the article “Youth in Isolation” (Page 1A, Dec. 6).
The quote was from a report Dr. Jetmalani contributed
to, but was not his words.
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the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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