Judge rules man gold mined illegally
MEDFORD (AP) A federal judge has convicted an Oregon man of illegal mining while digging for gold on U.S. Forest Service land. Clifford R. Tracy of Gold Hill was sentenced to a year on probation. He was also ordered to pay the costs to remedy his r...
 2.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 360.0 A wave of new work in Bandon
BANDON The rainy season won t stop the Port of Bandon from taking the next step along its riverwalk theme landscaping project. City crews will begin deconstructing the extra-wide sidewalk that runs along the north side of First Street Southwest bet...
2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 296.0 One for the bragging wall
MEDFORD (AP) - Thumbtacked to the Bragging Wall at Sportsmen s Warehouse is a photo of an underwhelming blacktailed buck, a little forked-horn deer held up by a man whose smile is wider than the deer s antlers. It wasn t huge, but I wasn t going to...
4.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 302.0 One for the bragging wall
MEDFORD (AP) ” Thumbtacked to the Bragging Wall at Sportsmen s Warehouse is a photo of an underwhelming blacktailed buck, a little forked-horn deer held up by a man whose smile is wider than the deer s antlers. It wasn t huge, but I wasn t g...
4.2K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 302.0 One for the bragging wall
MEDFORD (AP) ” Thumbtacked to the Bragging Wall at Sportsmen s Warehouse is a photo of an underwhelming blacktailed buck, a little forked-horn deer held up by a man whose smile is wider than the deer s antlers. It wasn t huge, but I wasn t g...
4.2K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 302.0 BLM is set to thin trees in LaVerne Park
LaVerne Park visitors may have noticed orange flags tacked on some of the old-growth trees lately. Don t worry, there are no plans to clearcut the area. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which owns the county park, does plan to chop down some aged ...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 327.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 416.0 FERC snubs Jordan Cove
COOS BAY The developers who d like to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County won t get to take their application before federal regulators this month. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets Thursday, but Jordan Cove Energy Pr...
2.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 319.0 BLM seeks volunteers for Public Lands Day
It s known as the largest volunteer hands-on effort of its kind in the country and on Saturday Coos County residents can join in. The Bureau of Land Management s Coos Bay District is looking for volunteers to participate in the 16th-annual National P...
1.2K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 304.0 Loggers buy BLM timber
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management s Coos Bay District sold three timber thinning sales Friday, totaling 13 million board feet, a press release said. The Hatchet Job DM timber sale, located in Douglas County, was purchased by S.A. Schuyler Son of M...
0.8K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 208.0 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 236.0 Striders to hike at Coos Bay's North Spit
Dave Wash from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will lead the South Coast Striders on a 6-mile hike Saturday on the trails at North Spit. Hikers will travel along the bay, through dunes, wetlands and coastal forest and along the beach. The walk inc...
1.0K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 218.0 Cutting trees would preserve Marys Peak meadow
CORVALLIS (AP) On an upside-down summer evening when Marys Peak had its head in the sunshine and its feet in the clouds, Forest Service botanist Marty Stein led a small group of people on a meadow tour. As he walked, he paused to point out some of ...
3.9K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 368.0 Tighter fire restrictions go into effect
The Coos Forest Protective Association imposed tighter restrictions for loggers and workers in some wildland areas earlier this week. The agency increased the Industrial Fire Precaution Level to 3 on all private, county, state and U.S. Bureau of Land...
1.6K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 238.0 Hike with BLM Saturday
Put on your hiking shoes. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is sponsoring a free presentation on Fixing and Preserving Habitats at the New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern south of Bandon on Saturday. There also will be a hike for visi...
0.6K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 248.0 Fire restrictions tighten
The Coos Forest Protective Association today is imposing tighter restrictions for loggers in some areas. The agency increased the Industrial Fire Precaution Level to 3 on all private, county, state and U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands within regu...
1.0K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 195.0 Frederick John Ulmer
Funeral services will be held for Frederick John Ulmer, 87, of Coquille, at 1 p.m., Monday, Aug. 17, at the Myrtle Point Chapel of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service. Pastor Jim Lloyd will officiate. Burial will follow at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens ...
2.0K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 281.0 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 335.0 Feds holding back $100 million
SALT LAKE CITY Brian Wixom s company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground. The money simply sits in a federal bank a...
6.0K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 428.0 Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies
NEW YORK Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called the most trusted man in America, died Friday. He was 92. Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. with...
14.2K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 421.0 | 
