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Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
A little rain this
afternoon
Rather cloudy
54° 42°
50° 35°
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SUNDAY
Sunshine and
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MONDAY
Cloudy and
seasonably cool
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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44° 32°
45° 35°
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59° (2006) -21° (1909)
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69° (1959)
Full
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Caldwell
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Astoria
Baker City
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Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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Newport
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Ontario
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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.
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Northern California: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight; a shower, except dry in the
interior mountains.
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WINDS
Medford
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SUN AND MOON
Jan 24
Bend
51/35
Burns
48/29
PRECIPITATION
Jan 16
John Day
51/36
Ontario
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
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New
First
Albany
56/45
Eugene
55/43
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HIGH
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Spokane
Wenatchee
38/33
35/32
Tacoma
Moses
52/43
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 39/33
42/36
51/45
52/42
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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
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La Grande
Salem
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HIGH
44° 34°
Seattle
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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. The lodges have underwater
entrances and the beavers — which
can hold their breath for 15 minutes
underwater — enter and exit without
attracting attention from predators.
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In this May 2010 file photo, a beaver holds up a branch to chew on near
Thompson Creek in Seaside. The U.S. government will place a pause on a
beaver-killing program in Oregon after environmental groups threatened
a lawsuit over the practice.
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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.
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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
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