ODFW continues Chetco River closure
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is extending the current angling closure on the Chetco River upstream of Highway 101 until further notice. The season was expected to reopen today, but will remain closed to protect spawning fall Chinook. Pa...
 3.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 75.0 You can't outlaw unpopular ideas
If Oregon had a neck, environmental protesters would be a throbbing pain in it. But the state s Court of Appeals was right to confirm that these sometimes irritating activists have the same rights as other Americans. The court this week struck down a...
2.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 Logging activists win court battle
PORTLAND People against logging old growth forests won an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday that struck down a state law on grounds it treats an environmental dispute differently. The case grew out of arrests in March 2005 in the Siskiyou Na...
3.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 303.0 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 151.0 Firefighters contain fire near Medford
MEDFORD (AP) A 150-acre fire that burned a home in Ashland has been contained, and firefighters have completed a line around the 630-acre fire in Medford s east hills. Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Brian Ballou said this morning that fire...
1.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 75.0 Plant disease closes trail near Brookings
BROOKINGS (AP) The discovery of sudden oak death, a plant disease, has prompted the closure of a popular nature trail leading to redwood trees in southwest Oregon. Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest spokeswoman Patty Burel said closing Redwood Na...
1.8K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Dry land prompts closures
Public and private timberland owners are announcing closures and restrictions to public access of their lands due to dry weather and abandoned campfires. Fire crews have been busy because abandoned campfires have ignited small brush fires. Campers sh...
0.9K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 Fair goes green
The Coos County Fair is going green in more ways than one as the annual summer event kicks off Tuesday. Recycling bins will dot the Myrtle Point fairgrounds for the first time, along with a couple of tents highlighting the area's natural resources an...
3.2K - Jul. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Fair goes green
The Coos County Fair is going green in more ways than one as the annual summer event kicks off Tuesday. Recycling bins will dot the Myrtle Point fairgrounds for the first time, along with a couple of tents highlighting the area's natural resources an...
3.1K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 75.0 Cave's fate hangs in Congress' hands
MEDFORD (AP) Federal officials would like to see The Cave Next Door in southwestern Oregon become part of the Oregon Caves National Monument. Even though the cave is part of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, the caves monument could be expa...
1.0K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 75.0 Group wants third national monument in Siskiyous
MEDFORD (AP) - Conservationists are proposing a third national monument in southwestern Oregon to protect rare native plants and wildlife corridors. The proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument would be made up of 600,000 acres of federal land strad...
2.1K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace
TAKILMA - On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chainsaws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later. Fresh...
8.6K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 151.0 FERC report doesn't ease concerns
MEDFORD (AP) - A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal and pipeline through southwest Oregon would have limited adverse environmental impacts, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's final environmental impact statement. That said, ...
3.4K - May. 4, 2009; scored 75.0 Taking the long view
Column by Joe Hansen, Outdoors Editor Monday was the kind of beautiful day that made me want a view. But I didn t feel like working for it, having spent most of Sunday afternoon on Mount Pisgah, outside Eugene, chasing my friend Katie, a marathon-run...
3.7K - Apr. 25, 2009; scored 75.0 Stimulus funds target forests
Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Tuesday that Oregon will get more than $120 million in stimulus funds for Forest Service projects. The allocation will send millions of dollars to projects in Coos and Curry countie...
1.7K - Apr. 22, 2009; scored 75.0 Forest Service wants to close our roads
The Rogue River/Siskiyou National Forest is currently in the preliminary stages of implementing a program that could severely restrict travel on public lands. As I understand it, all roads would be closed to public travel unless posted as open. This ...
0.9K - Apr. 11, 2009; scored 75.0 National Forest considering motorized use plan
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest managers are now undergoing a nationally-mandated process to fundamentally change how people use motorized vehicles within National Forest lands. The changes, stemming from a Travel Management Rule created in 1995...
3.5K - Mar. 28, 2009; scored 151.0 Agency to specify road use in national forest
MEDFORD (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has proposed that nearly 3,500 miles of roads be available for highway-legal and off-highway motorized vehicles in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The agency's draft plan also would designate two moto...
2.1K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 391.0 Amber Alert canceled after 3-year-old found
California officials canceled an Amber Alert this afternoon after California Highway Patrol found a 3-year-old girl who had been kidnapped during a burglary in Yreka. The alert was issued in California at 4:37 a.m. The victim was found by herself, wa...
0.7K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 75.0 | 
