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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Mostly cloudy and smoky Partly sunny and smoky 90° 57° 90° 58° SUNDAY MONDAY Dimmed sunshine, warm and smoky Partly sunny and very warm PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 97° 62° 97° 65° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 93° 54° 94° 58° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 96° 87° 108° (1933) 69° 58° 39° (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 Trace 0.21" 6.49" 11.37" 8.16" Corvallis 81/49 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 96° 88° 105° (2008) 70° 58° 40° (1935) Aug 18 Aug 26 5:58 a.m. 8:00 p.m. 1:17 p.m. 11:43 p.m. Last New Sep 2 Sep 9 Bend 86/48 Caldwell 93/59 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 67 86 86 70 87 84 84 89 94 89 86 87 85 91 62 66 92 94 90 80 88 82 90 85 79 91 94 Lo 55 45 48 55 40 46 50 56 58 52 47 47 45 55 52 53 59 56 57 55 43 51 59 43 54 64 54 W pc c pc pc s t pc pc pc pc pc pc t pc s s s pc c pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 68 89 89 69 88 86 88 88 93 90 89 88 86 95 63 66 92 93 90 84 89 87 88 86 84 91 92 Lo 55 44 50 54 42 49 52 56 54 53 49 47 46 58 53 54 56 52 58 57 46 54 60 46 55 62 56 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc s s s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 89 89 85 72 75 72 76 84 91 66 85 Lo 73 80 68 57 54 51 53 69 71 48 67 W pc t s pc t s pc t pc s pc Sat. Hi 85 89 84 74 75 74 77 85 89 72 82 Lo 72 81 68 61 55 53 56 69 74 48 70 W c t s pc pc s s s pc s s WINDS Medford 91/55 0.00" 0.00" 0.10" 5.10" 6.65" 6.02" SUN AND MOON John Day 89/52 Ontario 92/59 Burns 87/40 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 83/51 Eugene 84/50 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 101° 65° Spokane Wenatchee 90/59 92/63 Tacoma Moses 76/50 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 94/57 86/54 67/55 77/50 94/54 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 74/54 91/64 Lewiston 95/59 Astoria 93/62 67/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 80/55 Pendleton 84/46 The Dalles 94/58 90/57 88/59 La Grande Salem 87/47 82/51 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 99° 62° Seattle 76/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 96° 57° Today TUESDAY Hazy sun 93° 61° Friday, August 17, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 86/47 REGIONAL FORECAST — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. 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Today WSW 7-14 WSW 7-14 1 3 5 5 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. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hazy in central parts. Sunny in the interior mountains. East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 3 -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms rain WASHINGTON — As wildfires choke California and other Western states, the Trump administration pledged Thursday to work more closely with state and local officials to prevent wildfires from ever starting. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the Forest Service and other agencies will step up efforts to cut down small trees and underbrush and set con- trolled fires to remove trees that serve as fuel for catastrophic blazes, including a series of deadly fires that have spread through drought-parched for- ests and rural communities in California. Six firefighters have died in those wildfires. Perdue, who toured the Cal- ifornia fires this week, said they were “stark reminders of the immense forest-fire health crisis in this country, and the urgent need to dramatically increase our preventative forest treatments.” While officials have boosted forest management efforts in recent years, more needs to be done, Perdue said. “To truly protect our for- ests, we must increase the num- ber and the size of our (preven- tion) projects across the local landscape and across boundar- ies, and frankly we can’t do this by ourselves,” Perdue said at a news conference at the Capitol. Perdue pledged a “shared stewardship” approach in which the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies work with state, local and tribal officials to AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., left, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., attend a news conference with Secretary of Agricul- ture Sonny Perdue to discuss ways to improve the health of the forests and how to reduce wildfires, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. fight and prevent wildfires. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, meanwhile, said national forests have suffered from “gross mismanagement” for decades. “The fuel loads are up. The density of our forests is histor- ical. We have dead and dying timber,” Zinke said at a Cabinet meeting at the White House. “This is unacceptable that year after year we’re watch- ing our forests burn, our habi- tat destroyed and our commu- nities devastated,” Zinke added. “And it is absolutely prevent- able. Public lands are for every- body to enjoy and not just held hostage by these special-inter- est groups.” Zinke has long complained that environmental “extremists” make it difficult for trees to be logged to reduce fire risk. “Whether you’re a global warmist advocate or denier, it doesn’t make a difference when you have rotting timber, when housing prices are going up ... yet we are wasting billions of board feet” of timber that could go to local lumber mills, he said. The focus on wildfire comes as California and other states face longer and more destruc- tive wildfire seasons because of drought, warmer weather attributed to climate change and homes built deeper into forests. Yosemite National Park’s scenic valley in Northern Cal- ifornia reopened Tuesday after a 20-day, smoked-forced clo- sure, and hundreds of people were evacuated from Glacier National Park in Montana after a wildfire destroyed at least nine homes and cabins in one of the park’s historic districts. 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Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the current crisis under- scores the importance of pre- venting wildfires. “It is unac- ceptable to me to have Northwest seniors and young people being afraid to open their doors in the morning because they are afraid of smoke,” he said. Longer and hotter wild- fire seasons are the “new nor- mal,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., “and we have to meet it with a very, very aggressive response” that includes drones, satellites and other technology. Not all efforts will be pop- ular, Cantwell said, noting that some Seattle-area residents opposed controlled burns this spring because they feared the smoke. “I guarantee you now, Seat- tle would definitely take a lit- tle bit of smoke instead of the eventual, all-summer-long smoke that we’re getting,” she said. Perdue and other offi- cials said the focus on preven- tion could save money, not- ing that federal wildfire costs approached a record $3 bil- lion last year. “There’s no quick fix,” Perdue said, but increased collaboration could eventually save money or at least “get more done with the same costs.” Congress earlier this year created a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires. The law sets aside more than $20 billion over eight years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agen- cies to end a practice of raid- ing non-fire-related accounts to cover wildfire costs. The plan takes effect in October 2019. Ask me how to Bundle and save. CALL TODAY! IV SUPPORT HOLDINGS LLC Ask About A FREE 3 Day Vacation Voucher To Over 20 Destinations!!! ice 50s NATIONAL CITIES MUST MAINTAIN SVC & REDEEM W/IN 75 DAYS (CARD IN 4 WKS). Ends 8/15/18. Restrs apply. See below for offer details. EARLY TERMINATION FEE OF $20/MO. 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The Mail Tribune reports the Medford airport soared to an all-time monthly high of 105,954 passengers last month, a 17.8 percent jump over July 2017’s 89,948 figure. Ashland-based travel writer Ed Perkins cred- its the passenger boom to a growing economy and a growing population in the area. He also credits the fact the airport is a four- or five-hour drive from a better airport. To put the past two months in perspective, for all of 1982, the Medford airport saw 167,087 passengers. More than 200,000 have flown in and out of the Rogue Valley this June and July. July’s figure was more than double the July 2004 mark of 51,028. State agency has made no decision on killing wolves SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of Washington has not made a decision on whether it will kill members of a wolf pack that have been preying on cattle. Members of the Togo pack are suspected of attacking five head of cattle in the past 10 months in the northeast corner of Washington. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is gathering more information about the incidents, which began last November. The Spokesman-Review reports the state’s policy allows killing wolves if they prey on livestock three times in a 30-day period or four times in a 10-month period. That policy was developed in 2016 by the agency and its Wolf Advisory Group, which represents environmen- talists, hunters and ranchers. In the latest depredation, a cow was killed Aug. 8 while grazing near Danville, Washington. Corrections Two photo captions were inadvertently swapped on the article “Old buildings get new lives” published Wednesday. The build- ing with trees in front of it is the Hermiston Irrigation District building, and the building with a green stripe is located on Hermiston Avenue. The East Oregonian sincerely regrets the error. NO DIVORCE $155 NO Court Appearances www.paralegalalternatives.com Divorce in 1-5 weeks Possible! 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