Reedsport nets $10K for Rainbow Plaza
REEDSPORT The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development wants to help Reedsport spiff up a dirt lot at the east end of town. DLCD is sending the city $10,000, with Reedsport on the hook to contribute $4,050 and it must seek &...
 1.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 233.0 Reedsport nets $10K for Rainbow Plaza
REEDSPORT The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development wants to help Reedsport spiff up a dirt lot at the east end of town. DLCD is sending the city $10,000, with Reedsport on the hook to contribute $4,050 and it must seek &...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 233.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 386.0 Wind power development begins on public Oregon lands
FIELDS (AP) - Anchored among clumps of sage and purplish lupine, the guy wires of a solitary weather tower thrum with wind heading in a hurry toward Idaho and Nevada. They say that in the summer it shouts, but in the winter it screams, Elon Hasson s...
7.1K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 492.0 Flood insurance study revision completed
A flood insurance study revision has been completed through a partnership between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security s Federal Emergency Management Agency and WEST Consultants Inc. This revision updates the flood insurance rate maps showing the...
0.9K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 229.0 Feds get time to decide course of logging lawsuit
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has been given more time to decide whether it wants to defend the lawsuits challenging Bush administration plans to boost logging on federal forests in Western Oregon. In papers filed in the various federal cour...
2.5K - May. 21, 2009; scored 322.0 Land sale brings county $1 million
COQUILLE - Coos County is looking to invest in more timberland after bringing in about $1 million at its annual land auction. Saturday's half-hour auction included the sale of the former Coos County annex in Coquille and a large chunk of und...
4.2K - Apr. 20, 2009; scored 325.0 Obama won't defend Bush's spotted owl cuts
Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Write GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has notified a federal court it will not support the Bush administration's cut in protections for the northern spotted owl. In a motion filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court i...
3.6K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 332.0 Brookings company wants to mine Elk River
A Brookings company is proposing to extract rock and gravel from four places on the Elk River in Curry County. State and federal agencies want to know what the public thinks about the project. Tidewater Contractors Inc. of Brookings has applied for a...
3.8K - Mar. 30, 2009; scored 450.0 Wetlands in Florence slated for restoration
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Oregon Department of State Lands have approved a new wetland mitigation bank to serve parts of Lane, Lincoln and Douglas counties. The Wilbur Island Mitigation Bank near Florence will restore 10.4 acres, enhance 1...
1.3K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 241.0 Oregon report: Plan for end of timber safety net
GRANTS PASS Rural counties in Oregon the nation s top recipient of an unusual federal subsidy will have to raise taxes and take other painful steps to prepare for the day when it ends, a governor s task force said on Thursday. That day will be ...
5.7K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 396.0 Oregon Shores concerned about sea level
Two feet or there about. That s how much sea levels could rise in the next 100 years, researchers say. That estimate, generated by the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, does not take into account changes in ice flows and melting of ...
4.0K - Jan. 15, 2009; scored 438.0 Jordan Cove LNG case heads to Oregon Supreme Court
Randy Prince is adamant Coos County failed to consider the risk of tsunamis when it approved Jordan Cove Energy s application for a liquefied natural gas terminal. The facility is proposed for Coos Bay s North Spit within sight of the Pacific Ocean....
1.5K - Dec. 4, 2008; scored 268.0 Flood map may lower insurance costs
Coos County flood maps won t be new, but they soon should be more accurate once the Federal Emergency Management Administration finalizes its map revision project for the county. That could save area property owners money on their insurance. The stud...
4.0K - Nov. 10, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
