Timber sale will destroy watershed
There will be an Oregon Department of Forestry Timber Sale, Stull s Ridge No. 33, Contract No. 341-10-31, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Coos District Coos Forest Patrol Crewhouse, 63612 Fifth Road, in Coos Bay (267-4136). This is an auction that goes...
 2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 634.0 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 355.0 California officials blast Coos Bay LNG proposal
Local opponents of developing a liquefied natural gas project and an ancillary pipeline have found allies in another Bay Area. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution this week asking Pacific Gas Electric Corp. to withd...
5.6K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 561.0 Court tosses challenge to seabird protection
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has dismissed the timber industry s lawsuit challenging threatened species protection for the marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth trees. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colum...
0.9K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 458.0 Activists: Blockade won't end
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Environmental groups said they were calling in reinforcements after police arrested activists who blockaded a remote logging site nearly 20 miles from Reedsport. Police handcuffed at least 23 activists on Wednesday and drove th...
4.9K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 355.0 Study: LNG could work at CB
Federal officials have concluded the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay is workable. If Jordan Cove Energy Project builds its LNG terminal on the North Spit and a 234-mile connecting pipeline, it would damage the environment, but mos...
3.8K - May. 2, 2009; scored 355.0 Study: LNG could work at CB
Federal officials have concluded the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay is workable. If Jordan Cove Energy Project builds its LNG terminal on the North Spit and a 234-mile connecting pipeline, it would damage the environment, but mos...
3.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 355.0 Obama may kill logging increase
GRANTS PASS Conservationists hope that President Barack Obama s new direction on the Endangered Species Act will derail the U.S. Bureau of Land Management s plans to increase logging in Western Oregon. Obama announced Tuesday that rather than follo...
2.6K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 355.0 Comment period re-opened for murrelet
Once was not enough. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has re-opened the comment period on its proposal to revise the critical habitat for the marbled murrelet, a press release said. The seabird is a threatened species protected under the federal E...
2.9K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 BLM rolls out first timber sale under new plan
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is rolling out the first new timber sale under the Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as The Whopper. In documents posted on the Internet Jan. 27, the BLM s Coos Bay District is proposing 1,400 acres ...
3.9K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 355.0 State tells mining company to rewrite application
State officials Wednesday told the Oregon Resources Corp. it will have to rewrite its application for an operating permit to mine for chromite in Coos County. The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has asked Oregon Resources to clari...
3.9K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 355.0 | 
