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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Cooler with variable cloudiness Overcast with a touch of rain 64° 45° 63° 44° TUESDAY Cloudy, a shower or two; cool Partly sunny and pleasant PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 63° 42° 70° 47° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 68° 47° 69° 48° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 78° 66° 95° (1926) 47° 41° 29° (1935) 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" 1.37" 1.04" 5.08" 8.21" 5.00" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 81° 68° 88° (1947) 0.00" 1.55" 0.78" 3.93" 5.88" 3.89" SUN AND MOON May 7 Bend 53/36 Burns 57/32 New 5:48 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 6:40 p.m. 5:35 a.m. First May 15 May 21 Caldwell 69/45 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 46 39 36 47 32 38 45 44 48 41 34 40 39 45 46 47 44 47 45 49 33 46 42 37 48 48 42 W c c sh sh c c sh c c sh c c c sh sh sh c c c sh c sh sh c sh c c Hi 55 58 54 54 53 53 56 60 68 54 50 57 54 56 53 53 64 70 63 59 57 58 60 53 58 64 68 Lo 45 37 34 43 31 37 41 41 47 39 31 40 38 42 43 44 43 46 44 47 33 44 41 36 46 47 43 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh r sh r c r r r c r c r r r sh r r c r sh sh r sh r sh c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 49/34 Hi 86 81 70 53 76 57 62 79 70 68 75 Lo 62 75 55 41 55 40 47 59 46 62 63 W s pc s sh pc sh sh t s sh s Sun. Hi 88 83 75 52 78 60 62 77 72 69 74 Lo 61 75 58 41 56 44 46 56 49 59 61 W s pc s c pc pc r s pc pc s REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today and tonight with a passing shower or two. Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower in spots today, but a brief shower or two in central parts. Western Washington: Cloudy today with brief showers. Overcast tonight with a shower in places. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 58 62 53 54 57 56 59 62 69 58 49 59 57 58 55 57 71 70 64 61 56 60 61 56 61 66 68 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 58/45 PRECIPITATION Apr 29 John Day 58/41 Ontario 71/44 42° 42° 28° (1970) 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 Full Last Albany 59/45 Eugene 59/45 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 76° 48° Spokane Wenatchee 61/42 62/45 Tacoma Moses 58/42 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 67/43 59/42 57/46 59/40 68/42 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 59/45 66/48 Lewiston 70/48 Astoria 63/47 58/46 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 61/49 Pendleton 56/38 The Dalles 69/48 64/45 66/47 La Grande Salem 59/40 60/46 Corvallis 59/45 HIGH 68° 45° Seattle 58/47 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 67° 45° Today WEDNESDAY Times of clouds and sun 61° 43° Saturday, April 28, 2018 1 3 6 4 2 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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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 78 75 66 73 80 78 68 66 82 63 51 46 83 75 53 86 49 61 79 83 55 84 66 88 80 72 Lo 52 47 47 41 53 47 44 49 55 37 32 35 59 49 33 62 34 42 64 57 32 57 44 62 49 55 W c s pc pc s s pc pc s pc s c s c c pc pc s pc pc s s s s s pc Sun. 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Overwhelmed by what it characterizes as a $1 billion problem, the Bureau of Land Management proposed the novel approach to Congress on Thursday and also made requests to sterilize, euthanize or sell for slaughter tens of thousands of animals. Under any scenario, the agency plans to use short-term fertility control on the horses whose population it expects to grow to 100,000 by 2019. But it also recommends any approach include permanent sterilization, something most horse advocates find as objectionable as lifting current congressional prohibitions on selling the horses for slaughter. The $1,000 adoption bonus is included in the four management alternatives the agency is mulling as it seeks a way to address what it admits is a costly, difficult challenge. “Conflict levels are often high and the program is controversial and politically sensitive,” the agency said. The head of one of the nation’s largest horse protec- tion groups immediately condemned the package of alternatives as “a roadmap for destruction of America’s wild free-roaming horses and burros.” “BLM, the agency whose terrible mismanagement of this program has brought us to this place, is now proposing more bad ideas, including mass roundup and slaughter to cover for their incompetence,” said Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign. Laura Leigh, president of the Wild Horse Education horse protection advocacy group, said the report ignores the impact of cattle and sheep grazing on public range- land and relies heavily on recommendations made at a meeting in Salt Lake City last year organized by livestock AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File Wild horses that were captured from U.S. rangeland stand in a holding pen, at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Center in Palomi- no Valley about 20 miles north of Reno, Nev. interests. “The agency repeatedly scapegoats” the horses while “ignoring extreme deficits within the much larger livestock grazing program, diverting personnel from the (horse program) to placate other concerns, prioritizing existing funding based on political pressure not range- land needs,” she said Friday. The federal agency esti- mates 83,000 wild horses and burros were roaming public rangelands in 10 western states last year — more than three times the 26,715 animals the agency says the land can sustain. “As currently managed, by the summer of 2019, there will likely be well over 100,000 wild horses on BLM-man- aged land, with up to 20,000 more the year after,” said the agency, which says it has the capability to round up about 20,000 animals annually. Last year, the agency spent nearly 60 percent of its $81 million budget on animals that have been removed from the range and estimates “the cost of caring for the 46,000 un-ad- opted and unsold animals currently in holding will top $1 billion over their lifetime.” Free adoptions to qualified owners often topped 9,000 annually in the early 1990s, but have fallen to 3,000 or fewer in recent years. A new incentive program offering providers $1,000 at the point of adoption “would save money for the taxpayer and the BLM program in the first year of implementation alone,” the agency said. “Over a period of 25 years, holding that same animal in an off-range corral would have cost the taxpayers nearly $46,000.” Ranchers whose livestock compete with the horses for forage praised the agency for developing a range of options to save taxpayers money and better protect rangeland for wildlife, including the imper- iled sage grouse. “We have been in a stale- mate on this issue for years in Congress and the result of that stalemate is unhealthy horses, degraded resources on the range and program costs that are spiraling out of control,” said Ethan Lane, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa- tion’s executive director for federal lands. His group believes lifting current congressional prohi- bitions on the sale of horses for slaughter “would be the quickest route to a healthy population on the range,” Lane said. He said paying people to adopt horses also would be “money well spent.” The federal agency said it will continue to use short-term fertility control vaccines to slow population growth but that “permanent sterilization techniques would be a more effective long-term solution.” “Under all options, the BLM will utilize permanent sterilization techniques to take advantage of this fact.” Wife of Oregon lawmaker files suit against union By TOM JAMES Associated Press SALEM — The wife of an Oregon lawmaker has filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest union, joining a national push by an anti- union group to let workers avoid paying fees to unions where they work. Debora Nearman, wife of Rep. Mike Nearman, a Republican from Inde- pendence, filed suit late Wednesday against the state branch of Service Employees International Union, claiming fee-pay- ment requirements violate her First Amendment rights. “She feels that she should not be forced to pay any money to an organization that campaigned against her husband,” said Jill Gibson, an attorney for Nearman. The National Right To Work Foundation is assisting Nearman, part of a broader effort involving parallel lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court and other states to create “right-to- work” policies. Under federal law, government employees such as teachers and admin- istrative workers can be required to pay partial dues to unions at their work- places even if they choose not to become members. The partial dues can usually only be used by unions for bargaining and workplace organizing, not political campaigns or other outside activities, said Vanessa Williamson, a researcher at the Brookings Institution. Nearman is an employee at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Melissa Unger, director of SEIU 503, the group targeted in Nearman’s suit, said through a spokesman Thursday afternoon that she couldn’t comment on the lawsuit because the group hadn’t been served with a copy. The case comes as the latest in a broader legal battle over right to work policies. On one side, said Williamson, workers and anti-union groups have argued against paying dues to unions which may hold views or support politicians they don’t personally agree with. That’s the heart of a U.S. Supreme Court case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Munic- ipal Employees, which Right to Work Foundation lawyers are also working on, said Patrick Semmens, a spokesman for the group. In that case and others like it the group is pursuing in lower courts, Semmens said, the group has claimed that even bargaining over mundane workplace details like restroom accommodations amounts to lobbying. That makes it a form of political speech that members shouldn’t be forced to support, he added. “Anytime the union is speaking to the govern- ment, whether it’s lobbying Corrections The April 25, 9A article “Fighting for soil in arid Eastern Oregon” incorrectly noted who created prescription maps of the property. Infrared Baron took photos, but farmer Bill Jepsen created the maps based on the data. at the state legislature or bargaining, they’re really all lobbying,” Semmens said. Supporting an organi- zation that takes positions contrary to Nearman’s religious beliefs, and which fought her husband’s elec- tion, is a violation of her rights to free speech and association, the organiza- tion said in a release. On the other side, Williamson said, unions have argued that when they negotiate a contract, all the employees in a government agency benefit, and that they should be allowed to charge nonmembers a limited fee to cover the cost of that work. “There’s the argument that you’re getting benefits for free,” Williamson said. The Oregon Water Coalition Presents: WATER RIGHTS 102 INTRO TO IRRIGATION DISTRICTS Tuesday, May 8th • 7 - 8:30 P.M. at the HERMISTON COMMUNITY CENTER WORKSHOP IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Learn the fundamentals of irrigation district water rights and responsibilities in Oregon - Led by April Snell, Executive Director of the Oregon Water Resources Congress Sign up now at oregonwatercoalition.org Space is limited • Questions? Call 541-969-8938
