Fewer sea lions eat more salmon
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and st...
 3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 249.0 State finds child abuse and neglect at school
The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children. Our fi...
5.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 249.0 Farmers grow electricity
WIMER Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient. Besides the 40-some dwarf Nigerian goats they milk to make artisanal cheeses, they also raise chickens for meat and eggs, a steer for beef, hor...
4.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Mapping vessel finds offshore ridge is busy and changing
Scientists mapping the seafloor off Oregon found a surprising sight 20-foot vertical upheavals they had never known existed in the middle of the Juan de Fuca Plate, where some odd swarms of earthquakes were detected last year. Oregon State Universi...
2.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 249.0 Study: Warm forests may yield less timber
GRANTS PASS (AP) A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from...
4.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 249.0 Kulongoski wants to head off South Coast gold miners
GRANTS PASS Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational miners who are headed for them thar hills in Oregon after California stopped prospectors from using suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon rivers. The governor sent lette...
4.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 249.0 Ocean dead zones are new norm for the Pacific Coast
The ocean dead zone that formed this summer off Oregon was less severe than in years past, but it looks like the phenomenon apparently linked to global warming is here to stay. Oregon State University scientists said Thursday that winds that are a fa...
2.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 249.0 Groups say nothing new in Columbia salmon plan
Groups suing to make Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safer for salmon say there is nothing new or real about the Obama administration s revised plans for saving threatened and endangered salmon. Formal responses from the state of Oregon, the Nez Pe...
2.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Feds consider critical habitat for sea turtles
Federal fisheries managers have agreed to consider designating critical habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean off Oregon and California. NOAA Fisheries officials said Thursday they will make a decision whether to go forw...
2.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 West Coast embarks on new wave of fishing
HARBOR The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reverse long-standing problems with overfishing and to protect the seafloor from damage caused by bottom trawling gear. They are now embarking, after years...
4.5K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 249.0 Kill order placed on wolves
GRANTS PASS (AP) A kill order was issued Tuesday for the first wolves caught killing livestock in Oregon since they began moving to the state. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said extensive efforts were made to p...
2.9K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Tribe aims to bring back wild condors
ORICK, Calif. The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong. It can soar the highest, so we figured that was the one to ge...
6.0K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 249.0 DeFazio talks health care at heated town hall meeting
GRANTS PASS U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess. At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfie...
2.9K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 249.0 DeFazio talks health care at heated town hall meeting
GRANTS PASS U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio ran into a buzzsaw of fear and misinformation about federal health care reform proposals Wednesday on his first day of town hall meetings during the Congressional recess. At a stop in Grants Pass, the Springfield...
2.5K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 249.0 BLM sued over road maintenance
A conservation group has sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over maintenance work on old roads in congressionally protected areas around Steens Mountain in the high desert of Eastern Oregon. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, ...
1.7K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 249.0 Forecast: fire danger up in California, down in Northwest
GRANTS PASS A new wildfire forecast based on climate models shows the risk of big fires eased for the Northwest in the past month, thanks to June rains, but increased a bit for California and the Southwest. The map produced by researchers for the U...
2.7K - Jul. 28, 2009; scored 249.0 Oregon governor signs greenhouse gas bills
Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed a package of bills expected to level off greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon by next year. The seven bills, meant to help combat greenhouse gases were signed Wednesday at the University of Oregon Lundquist College of Bus...
3.2K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 249.0 FAA: Years to consider Crater Lake helicopters
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will take several years to consider a Bend, company s application to offer helicopter tours over Crater Lake National Park. FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said Wednesday they have a backlog of 85 national p...
2.9K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 249.0 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 249.0 | 
