Marine reserves win OK
SALEM - All that's preventing Oregon from setting up the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves off the coast is Gov. Ted Kulongoski's signature. Talk to anyone involved in the process and all indications are these two reserves will sail into...
 2.5K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 249.0 Nature Guide Journal: Discovering a mysterious plant parasite
Column by Marty Giles I ran into a good friend at a school event; she was excited about a new find on a recent forest walk. What was the weird plant I found? she asked. She described what could have been an emerging ground cone (Boschniakia hookeri)...
4.2K - May. 30, 2009; scored 249.0 House approves marine reserves
GRANTS PASS - The South Coast is one step closer to having its first marine reserve, but a Coos Bay lawmaker says if the state doesn't pay for it, it will dissolve. The Oregon House approved establishment of Oregon's first two marine reserves - inclu...
3.8K - May. 29, 2009; scored 249.0 Graham J. Wood
Funeral services will be held for Graham J. Wood, 96, of Lacey, Wash., at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at Newell-Hoerling's Mortuary in Centralia, Wash. Interment will be held at Mountain View Cemetery in Centralia. Graham was born July 10, 1912, in St...
1.8K - Apr. 23, 2009; scored 249.0 Trollers want big season for sport fishermen
COOS BAY - The talk was of zeros and giving everything away: Zero fishing for commercial salmon fishermen on the ocean this year and letting sport fishermen have as much fish as possible. The Pacific Fishery Management Council held a hearing Monday n...
3.9K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 249.0 Ocean salmon season meeting Monday
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will host a public hearing in Coos Bay on March 30 to review options for the upcoming ocean salmon seasons off the Oregon Coast. In recent meetings, the PFMC announced the strongest hatchery coho abundance forec...
2.1K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 249.0 Fishery managers seek comments
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will host a public hearing in Coos Bay on March 30 to review options for the upcoming ocean salmon seasons off the Oregon Coast. In meetings the week of March 9, the PFMC announced the strongest hatchery coho ab...
3.0K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 249.0 Springtime makes for good leaf hunting
Column by Marty Giles The infant leaves of the thimbleberry at the edge of the trail were just starting to open. Unfold, actually. Each emerging leaf was tightly creased along each vein, with several layers of folds that held the leaf in a tight, org...
3.6K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 249.0 State unwilling to lift coastal camping ban
PORTLAND (AP) - The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department says it prefers to maintain a ban on camping at Oswald West State Park north of Manzanita, but wants to hear from the public before making a final decision. The collapse of a giant spruce pro...
0.6K - Mar. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Trollers want disaster leftovers
NEWPORT Of the $170 million in disaster money destined for West Coast salmon fishermen and related businesses last year, about $50 million is left and Oregon trollers are going after it. Though the $170 was divvied betw...
2.1K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 | 
