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Thankyou! PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. ByKeithRidler The Associated Press BOISE, IDAHO U.S. Inte- rior Secretary Sally Jewell has released the initial plan for a new wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country that supports cattle ranch- ing and is home to a strug- gling bird species. The 27-page report re- leased Tuesday calls for prioritizing and protecting areas most at risk by using veteran crews, rural fire de- partments and fire protec- tion associations made up of ranchers who can re- spond quickly. The previ- ous strategy didn't call for specific efforts to protect the habitat. The plan heading into the 2015 wildfire season also calls for accelerating efforts to restore burned rangelands by developing a strategy for storing and distributing locally adapted seeds to try to keep invasive species such as cheatgrass from returning. "Cheatgrass and other invasive species have con- tributed to making range- land fire one of the greatest threats to the Great Basin — not only to sagebrush hab- itat, but to wildlife, ranch- ing and other economic ac- tivities that depend on a healthy landscape," Jew- ell said in a statement. "As we head into the 2015 fire season, the actions recom- mended in this report will help ensure that our pre- paredness, response and recovery strategies better align with the threats fac- ing the West." The Boise-based National Interagency Fire Center, which assigns resources throughout the nation dur- ing wildfire season, is al- ready adopting new strate- gies. One of them is a plan to preposition fire crews in the Great Basin ahead of fire season. "That's the key thing that we will be doing dif- ferently," said Randy Eard- ley, a Fire Center spokes- man. Previously, he said, fire crews only responded — sometimes from great distances — once wildfires had started and spread. "If we have more crews avail- able in the area, then yes, it could be very effective," he said. The plan requires mak- ing a priority the protec- tion of sage-steppe ecosys- tems where sage grouse live. Wildfire managers are still working out the specif- ics of how some aspects of the plan will be put in place, Eardley said. In the last decade, range- land fires have been espe- cially destructive in the Great Basin region of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and California. Jewell in Octo- ber toured southern Idaho and saw firsthand the gi- ant swaths scorched by wildfires. In January she issued an order seeking a "science-based" approach to find a way to stop wild- fire and other threats while also protecting habitat for greater sage grouse. SAGEBRUSH COUNTRY Firefightingplanaimstoprotecthabitat Washington 68/39 New York 61/35 Miami 85/73 Atl anta 76/59 Detroit 51/31 Houston 69/55 Chicago 48/31 Minneapolis 55/38 Kansas City 71/43 El Paso 71/45 Denver 67/38 Billings 66/44 Los Angeles 73/54 San Francisco 65/51 Seattle 58/51 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans: 0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast s-sunny,pc-partly cloudy,c-cloudy,sh-showers,t-thunderstorms,r-rain,sf-snow flurries,sn-snow,i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: THURSDAY 78° 48° FRIDAY 78° 50° Ve ry wa rm with clouds and sun Partly sunny and warmer SATURDAY 80° 55° Va riably cloudy and ve ry warm SUNDAY 76° 54° Mostly cloudy TODAY 63° 46° Mainly cloudy with a little rain. A shower this evening; otherwise, mostly cloudy tonight. High ....................................................................... 69° Low ........................................................................ 46° Normal high ......................................................... 64° Normal low ........................................................... 43° Record high ............................................. 83° in 2005 Record low .............................................. 28° in 2006 Humidity noon today ........................................ 72% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date .................................................. Trace Normal month to date ..................................... 1.34" Season to date ................................................ 18.16" Normal season to date .................................. 19.40" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 3 Highest at 12 p.m. Today 7:28 a.m. 7:11 p.m. 12:06 a.m. 10:40 a.m. Thursday 7:26 a.m. 7:12 p.m. 1:04 a.m. 11:23 a.m. 11 hr., 43 min. Mar13 Last Mar20 New First Mar26 Full Apr4 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........1.00 .......none atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......128.85 ....... -0.05 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.42 ......+0.02 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......237.70 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......200.50 .......none atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......166.08 ....... -0.02 BlackButte ....................452.34..............59,937 .....41.7% LakeOroville..................759.07.........1,763,675 .....47.2% LakeShasta ...................991.17.........2,640,833 .....58.0% LakeTrinity..................2272.07.........1,158,972 .....43.8% Whiskeytown...............1198.65............206,124 .....85.5% Weather Trivia ™ Where did the blizzard of 1888 reach its full fury? The Hudson Valley and New England. Today Thursday Anaheim 76/50/c 84/57/s Bakersfield 71/47/c 74/50/s Chula Vista 73/54/c 76/54/s Crescent City 57/48/r 59/47/pc Death Valley 82/56/c 88/60/s Eureka 59/46/r 60/46/pc Fremont 66/44/c 75/50/s Fresno 70/50/c 73/50/s Glendale 73/53/c 83/60/s Huntington Beach 71/55/c 77/61/s Irvine 73/51/c 80/58/s Lake Tahoe 50/26/sh 57/27/s Long Beach 73/53/c 84/58/s Los Angeles 73/54/c 82/60/s Mammoth Mountain 54/25/c 58/26/s Modesto 69/49/c 75/49/s Monterey 65/48/c 69/50/s Moreno Valley 74/43/c 81/51/s Napa 61/41/sh 72/43/s Needles 86/63/c 85/64/s Oakland 64/48/c 69/49/s Oxnard 68/51/c 79/56/s Redding 62/47/r 79/49/pc Riverside 75/39/c 81/46/s Sacramento 65/48/sh 76/48/s San Bernardino 75/43/c 83/51/s San Diego 71/58/c 75/59/s San Francisco 65/51/c 69/52/s San Jose 67/49/c 73/50/s San Luis Obispo 70/48/c 76/49/s Santa Ana 76/57/c 84/63/s Santa Barbara 69/48/c 76/50/s Santa Clarita 73/47/c 80/55/s Stockton 67/45/c 76/45/s Ventura 68/50/c 77/55/s Yosemite Valley 62/38/c 69/39/s Today Thursday Albuquerque 68/40/s 63/40/c Atlanta 76/59/t 70/53/r Baltimore 64/34/pc 54/30/pc Boston 51/31/pc 42/22/s Buffalo 40/26/pc 38/26/s Chicago 48/31/s 54/37/s Cincinnati 62/36/c 61/48/c Dallas 70/48/s 68/45/pc Denver 67/38/s 65/35/pc Detroit 51/31/pc 47/32/s El Paso 71/45/s 71/47/pc Fargo 59/43/pc 65/39/c Honolulu 78/65/sh 79/64/c Houston 69/55/c 68/51/r Indianapolis 58/34/pc 59/46/pc Kansas City 71/43/s 70/44/s Las Vegas 74/55/c 77/58/s Louisville 65/41/c 63/55/r Miami 85/73/pc 85/73/pc Minneapolis 55/38/s 64/46/pc New Orleans 73/64/t 74/63/r New York City 61/35/pc 49/35/s Oklahoma City 73/44/s 68/43/s As rain exits much of the Northeast today, rain will linger farther south. Rain will tend to become light and spotty over Virginia, the Delmarva Peninsula and North Carolina. However, heavy rain and em- bedded gusty thunderstorms can occur from the central Gulf Coast to the southern Appalachians. Warm, humid air will hold over the southeast- ern corner of the nation with spotty showers. Springlike warmth will stretch from the coastal Northeast to the Midwest and much of the Plains. In some locations, today will be the warmest day since Christmastime. High ............................ 91° in Thermal, CA Low ....................... -2° in Presque Isle, ME High ........................ 108° in Bousso, Chad Low ... -55° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 70/49/t 71/50/c Buenos Aires 85/68/s 85/68/s Caracas 87/75/pc 89/75/s Ensenada 78/57/pc 79/59/s Mexico City 66/47/sh 68/47/pc Montreal 41/23/pc 27/15/s Rio de Janeiro 89/77/t 91/76/t Tijuana 74/52/pc 77/52/s Toronto 45/26/pc 39/27/pc Vancouver 54/46/r 55/42/pc Orlando 83/68/t 84/66/pc Philadelphia 63/35/pc 52/33/s Phoenix 88/64/pc 87/62/pc Pittsburgh 53/28/pc 52/36/s Portland, ME 50/28/pc 37/16/s Portland, OR 59/50/sh 66/44/pc St. Louis 69/42/s 66/50/c Salt Lake City 67/45/pc 58/39/c Seattle 58/51/sh 62/45/pc Tucson 84/58/pc 81/55/c Washington, DC 68/39/sh 57/38/pc Cairo 74/55/pc 70/54/s Casablanca 74/48/s 70/46/s Johannesburg 80/56/pc 74/57/r Kinshasa 92/73/t 92/73/t Lagos 92/79/t 93/79/t Nairobi 88/58/s 87/59/s Tripoli 62/47/sh 67/50/s Baghdad 80/49/s 80/58/c Beijing 51/27/s 55/28/pc Hong Kong 69/61/r 68/64/r Jerusalem 70/49/pc 53/42/sh Kabul 51/34/c 56/32/c Manila 86/74/pc 87/74/pc Melbourne 80/54/s 66/52/c New Delhi 80/55/c 82/61/s Seoul 43/25/s 42/26/s Singapore 88/77/sh 89/76/pc Sydney 84/69/pc 80/66/t Tehran 48/36/s 57/40/s Tokyo 51/40/s 53/40/s Amsterdam 49/34/pc 52/33/pc Athens 57/46/sh 56/45/sh Belgrade 54/39/c 45/38/sh Berlin 48/34/pc 46/33/pc Budapest 55/36/c 48/36/c Dublin 51/34/r 50/37/r London 52/44/r 56/41/c Madrid 71/40/s 70/41/s Moscow 47/34/s 40/31/c Paris 55/37/c 56/36/pc Rome 59/43/pc 59/40/s Stockholm 44/27/s 45/25/s Vienna 46/35/c 46/36/c Zurich 49/28/c 50/27/pc 56/33 63/38 60/34 58/35 58/35 65/48 66/46 61/41 64/42 64/46 65/47 51/31 54/34 55/32 62/47 63/46 59/38 59/46 60/47 59/46 59/40 52/37 58/37 57/48 58/38 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 2 Ifso,youlikelyknowbynow! 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