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Escaping his past • Part II BLM lands Kenny Dailey had a history of fighting and few options. Now a two-sport star at Bend High, Dailey, 17, looks to the future. Part I appeared in Sunday’s Bulletin.
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Was that our winter? It’s a La Niña year, so not necessarily, says one expert
Walden says Congress, public should have a say, opposes plan By Keith Chu The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, are taking aim at a new federal directive that could put more federal lands off-limits to grazing, new roads and other human activity. Just before Christmas, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new review of Bureau of Land Management lands to determine whether those areas should receive a newly created “Wild Lands” protected status, which would be similar to, although not as restrictive as, federal wilderness areas. Environmental groups heralded the announcement, while timber companies and Republicans vowed to fight it. Walden, R-Hood River, plans to hold a press conference in Medford today to discuss his opposition to the policy. It’s the notion that an administration can put large swaths of land off-limits with little congressional or public input that is Walden’s biggest objection, he said in an interview on Friday. “Agencies can now in effect, based on some member of Congress introducing a bill or someone just suggesting an area needs special protection, further lock up the public land from the public without any due process,” Walden said. “I’m sure they’ll say they have some public process they’ll go through, but this makes it all inside baseball, inside D.C.” See Land / A4
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soil. “Everything’s coming up and it shouldn’t be,” Schiedler said. “You get all excited about it and think that it’s spring — and it’s not.” January brought some unusual weather to Central Oregon — even a record-tying high temperature in Redmond last week. Conditions were relatively warm and dry in Bend and Redmond and rainy in the mountains, leading to a stagnant snowpack. “Winter is only basically half over,” said Jon Lea, Oregon’s snow survey program manager with the Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Everybody is getting spring fever.” January brought rain to the Cascades, he said, which prevented the snowpack from accumulating like it typically does. The rain melted away the snow at lower elevations and seeped into the snowpack at higher elevations, compressing it and making it dense, with some of the water draining away. “What happened in January is the majority of the storms that came, I’ll say around the 14th and 15th, right around MLK Day, those were relatively warm storms,” Lea said. “So it was raining up to fairly high elevations, around 9,000 feet.” Still, it’s early in the winter season, he said. It’s a La Niña year, Lea added, which typically brings cooler and wetter winter to the Northwest, so that could pick up again. “Now we’ve had that big rainstorm, we’d like to see some more snow come in and replenish what disappeared during the rain,” he said. In the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River basins, the snowpack was at 84 percent of average as of Sunday; however, the amount of precipitation was at 112 percent of average for the year. The melt from the snowpacks has been good for filling area reservoirs, said Steven Johnson, Central Oregon Irrigation District manager, and Wickiup Reservoir is on track to fill before summer. See Winter / A5
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Madras woman saw no hint of coming riots
The snowpack in the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River basins started strong but has fallen below average thanks to a warm January.
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The snowpack in the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River basins started the winter off strong, but January rains caused some melt off and the snowpack is now at 84 percent of average.
Central Oregon’s high temperatures for the first 28 days of January averaged 44.5 degrees, higher than the average for the month — 40.8.
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When Suzanne El-Attar, of Madras, was with her husband and two kids in Cairo visiting her parents last month, she said everything seemed fine. There was no talk of insurrection, and even though it was well known that many Egyptians were unhappy with their government, and in particular President Hosni Mubarak, the trip was pleasant. “You wouldn’t have known that this type of event would have been happening a couple weeks later; you had no sense of it at the time,” said El-Attar, an Egyptian-American physician with the Madras Medical Group. See Local / A4
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Earlier this month, Rebecca Skloot replaced her hulking big-box TV with a flat-screen TV no thicker than an iPad. She turned it on and, horror of horrors, the picture was lousy.
Displeased, she turned to Google for help. What it delivered was a mess, a collection of spammy sites riddled with ads. So she turned to Twitter, posting: “Old TV died, got newfangled LED TV. Shocked how bad/fake movies look! … Others have this prob?”
Solutions to Skloot’s technological melodrama rolled in. A few hours later, she posted: “Thx 4 fixing my TV today! It’s an example of how Google = in trouble. Googled 4 fix, got spam sites. On Twitter answer = asap.” See Google / A5