WEATHER
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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
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Medford
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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
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smoky today. Clear tonight. Hazy sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Smoky today. Cloudy to partly
sunny in central parts; hazy sun elsewhere.
Saturday
WSW 4-8
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Sunshine in central parts
today; clouds and sun across the north.
Clouds, then sun in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
and smoky today. A t-storm in spots in cen-
tral parts; mostly cloudy across the north.
Western Washington: Hazy sunshine today;
smoky. Mainly clear tonight; smoky. Hazy
sunshine tomorrow; smoky.
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the interior mountains.
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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.
In Washington state, mean-
while, officials have distributed
masks to combat unhealthy air
filled with smoke from wild-
fires that have blanketed the
Northwest.
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Sen. 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.
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BRIEFLY
Medford airport sees more than
100,000 passengers in July
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Rogue Valley
International-Medford Airport is coming off of
its biggest month ever.
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.
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