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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY A little rain this afternoon Rather cloudy 54° 42° 50° 35° SATURDAY SUNDAY Sunshine and patchy clouds Today MONDAY Cloudy and seasonably cool Partly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 50° 32° 44° 32° 45° 35° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 54° 36° 55° 44° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 45° 35° 41° 27° 59° (2006) -21° (1909) 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 Trace 0.32" 0.57" 0.32" 0.93" 0.57" Corvallis 55/43 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW 48° 41° 69° (1959) Full Jan 31 Caldwell 44/34 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 Lo 45 30 35 47 29 34 43 42 44 36 31 37 35 39 46 47 34 45 42 46 34 46 33 33 45 43 37 W r sn r sh c r r c c pc c r r c r r sh sh r r sn r sn sh r r r Hi 51 43 45 56 42 41 52 50 54 43 45 44 42 50 52 55 47 53 50 52 45 54 37 42 51 50 50 Lo 43 24 28 44 22 27 34 35 36 32 26 30 30 32 44 41 28 37 35 39 27 38 32 29 40 38 38 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c c c c pc pc c c pc c pc pc pc pc c c pc pc c c c c c c c pc c WORLD CITIES Today Hi 29 62 64 45 75 30 46 55 18 77 48 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 48/31 Lo 10 49 45 39 41 16 38 45 5 71 32 W s c pc sh pc sn c r s pc s Fri. Hi 38 61 59 46 69 22 44 58 22 83 44 Lo 14 54 45 38 40 10 35 40 14 75 33 W s s s sh pc c c sh s pc s REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Snow today, 4-8 inches in the north and mountains; snow, then rain, 1-2 inches near the Idaho border. Rain across the south. Cascades: Windy today; a bit of snow; however, downpours across the north. Coastal Oregon: Windy today with periods of rain, some heavy. A shower tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower today, but periods of rain near the Cascades; windy in the south. Western Washington: Periods of rain, some heavy today. 0 Friday WSW 7-14 WSW 6-12 0 1 1 211 S.E. 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Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 0 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today and tonight; a shower, except dry in the interior mountains. Feb 7 Today SW 8-16 SW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 7:34 a.m. 4:32 p.m. 2:40 a.m. 1:06 p.m. Last Hi 53 42 51 54 48 44 55 55 55 51 48 46 44 54 53 56 42 51 54 54 54 56 38 47 54 52 47 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. WINDS Medford 54/39 0.01" 0.26" 0.40" 0.26" 0.41" 0.40" SUN AND MOON Jan 24 Bend 51/35 Burns 48/29 PRECIPITATION Jan 16 John Day 51/36 Ontario 42/34 38° 28° -3° (1993) 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 56/45 Eugene 55/43 TEMPERATURE HIGH 44° 38° Spokane Wenatchee 38/33 35/32 Tacoma Moses 52/43 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 39/33 42/36 51/45 52/42 47/37 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 53/44 52/43 Lewiston 52/44 Astoria 46/41 53/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 54/46 Pendleton 44/34 The Dalles 55/44 54/42 52/47 La Grande Salem 46/37 56/46 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH 44° 34° Seattle 52/46 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 52° 34° Thursday, January 11, 2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s 30s flurries 40s snow ice 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 49 60 51 52 10 69 43 48 71 64 57 55 59 42 51 60 -8 1 83 71 60 76 40 62 64 71 Lo 26 55 46 50 4 59 34 44 61 54 20 44 28 25 34 32 -13 -24 66 34 26 63 7 43 27 53 Hi 55 62 54 63 12 60 45 56 71 60 25 45 48 50 35 62 -3 -4 83 53 30 75 23 63 40 75 pools in bubbling streams that shield young salmon and give them a resting place to fatten up as they migrate to the Pacific Ocean, said Andrew Hawley, a staff attorney with the Western Environ- mental Law Center. The dams have also been shown to reduce turbidity in streams and maintain stable water levels even in drought by blocking and slowing the flow of water. “Instead of going in and just killing them, there are options for live-trapping them and figuring how to move the family units into other areas. Let them do what they do best,” he said. “They do exactly the type of resto- ration work that the biologists say we need to do for salmon and coho and steelhead recovery and they do it for free — and better than we could ever do.” A message and email left for David Williams, state director of the Wildlife Services program in Oregon, were not returned Wednesday. Beavers are the largest rodent in North America. They can grow to four feet in length and reach 65 pounds. They build dams to create ponds in fast-moving streams and then build a lodge of felled trees in the middle of the pond. 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The Bulletin newspaper reports all 349 beds in Bend, Redmond, Madras and Prineville hospitals are occupied, and a third of all patients are being treated for the flu. New patients are being seen and treated in nontraditional areas, including waiting rooms. Deschutes County Health Service epidemiologist Jennifer Faith says emergency room visits surged after Christmas. She says 18 county residents between 18 and 64 years old checked into emergency rooms the week before Christmas because of flu symptoms. The next week, the number increased to 89. Flu season in Central Oregon traditionally does not peak until the end of January. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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The U.S. government will place a pause on a beaver-killing program in Oregon after environmental groups threatened a lawsuit over the practice. SPECTFUM INTEFNET™ 89 97 110s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. Physiciats Mutual Itsuratce Compaty from warm front stationary front Fri. W s r pc c sn sh c pc sh c r r pc s r s s sn pc t r pc sn s r s DENTAL Itsuratce $ 100s NATIONAL CITIES Today Alex Pajunas/Daily Astorian via AP, File • Speeds up to 60Mbps • Unlimited data – no data caps UP TO 60MBPS 90s Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is calling for an investigation into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s misuse of wildfire preparedness funds after news reports revealed Zinke used the funds for unrelated travel. In December, Newsweek reported that internal emails from the Interior Department showed officials OK’d the use of the funds — which are used to coordinate national wildfire fighting efforts — even though Zinke did not visit fire-affected areas. The department told Newsweek that Zinke’s travel costs were charged to the account in error. Wyden wants clearer answers and, in a letter, called on the office of the inspector general to conduct an audit of Interior Department spending from the preparedness sub account since Zinke took office. — Oregon Public Broadcasting MOFE HD CHANNELS, FASTEF INTEFNET AND UNLIMITED VOICE. UNLIMITED CALLING 80s Wyden calls for audit into Zinke’s use of wildfire funds for unrelated travel PORTLAND — The U.S. govern- ment will temporarily stop killing beavers in Oregon after environmental groups threatened a lawsuit alleging the practice reduces the number of dams that create deep pools that are ideal habitat for young, endangered coho salmon. In a letter released Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups, the government said it will further study whether the actions violate the Endan- gered Species Act. Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said in the Dec. 27, 2017, letter that it would “cease all aquatic mammal damage management activities” directed at beavers, river otters, muskrats and mink. Wildlife Services killed more than 400 beavers in Oregon in 2016 as part of a federal effort to control damage to agricultural fields, timber land and road- ways caused by flooding that resulted from beaver dams. It’s a little-known program in Oregon, where the beaver is the state animal, appears on the state flag and is the mascot of Oregon State University. Beavers played an important role in the state’s early economy, earning Oregon the nickname “the beaver state.” Environmentalists say killing beavers to mitigate damage to private agricultural interests harms the envi- ronment and particularly endangered salmon species because the dams help salmon — another icon of the Pacific Northwest. Beavers are “nature’s engineers” and their complex dams form deep TV, INTERNET AND VOICE cold front 70s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 83° in Presidio, Texas Low -6° in Cut Bank, Mont. By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press SPECTRUM TRIPLE PLAY TM 60s National Summary: Areas of rain are in store for the South, Midwest and Northwest today. Arctic air will advance over the Plains and Mississippi Valley, where rain will change to ice then snow in many locations. Feds to pause killing of beavers after threat of lawsuit 125+ CHANNELS 50s FREE Next Day Installation! 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