Local bird watching
Grab some binoculars and an identification book, and you re set to start bird watching, an increasingly popular activity for bird enthusiasts, hikers and travelers. The Oregon coast is a popular area for bird watchers to spot shorebirds, as well as d...
 2.9K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Dune lakes off limits to ATVs
There will be no more joyriding around the Beal and Snag lakes on the south end of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Off-road enthusiasts who get a thrill skirting the perimeters of those dune lakes could face a fine of up to $5,000...
3.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 69.0 Coastal projects get funds
A U.S. Forest Service committee has OK d grant funds for several coastal projects in Coos, Douglas and Lane counties to help plovers and improve ATV areas. In all, members of the Siuslaw Resource Advisory Committee put $1.2 million toward 32...
1.3K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 139.0 Cheers & Jeers, Sept. 19
Give a holler Visitors to Empire s Hollering Place find no real invitation to stop, gawk and learn. Cheers for a budding plan to build a wayside, with parking and a viewpoint. A sign explaining the spot s history would be good, too. Oh, by the way .....
1.9K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 69.0 Snowy plover season is over
ATVers and hikers can meander onto the dry portions of several South Coast beaches again, with the end of the Western snowy plover nesting season. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management lifted access restrictions in place since March on Tuesday, a press ...
1.1K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 1000.0 Dry sand areas to close for birds
Snowy plover biologists will be back on the beaches for the shorebird's breeding season starting Sunday. That means nesting season regulations will be in effect March 15 through Sept. 15. Some area beaches have access restrictions in place during th...
1.9K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 582.0 Corps seeks comments on Oregon Dunes
Got sand? The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area wants more of it. But to get it, the agency will have to destroy invasive beach grass. To do that, it needs a permit. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking comments on a Siuslaw National Forest...
1.0K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 69.0 CB man, Audubon propose project on Weyerhaeuser wetlands
Coos Bay s North Spit is far from virgin terrain. Timber companies have developed factories there over the years. All-terrain vehicles criss-cross some areas of the dunes. And industrial waste treatment areas have denuded parts of the landscape. It s...
3.8K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 69.0 Speaking volumes without saying a word
Column by Marty Giles The British Medical Journal recently released results of a study on how happiness travels through a group of people. Key conduits of that happiness transferal are the smiles humans give to one another smiles truly are infectio...
3.7K - Dec. 13, 2008; scored 69.0 | 
