Oregon's 1 percent 'liquidation' sale
Two pieces of bad news this week about trees and their role in Oregon s economy: First, state officials reported a decline in timber revenue from state forests. That means less money for Oregon schools. Second, a gang of tree-climbing activists wants...
 2.3K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 271.0 Cheers and Jeers
Smell that cotton candy! Cheers for county fairs, especially Coos County's annual hootenanny next week in Myrtle Point. Things to do, prizewinning animals to admire, old friends to visit, and a familiar cacophony of sounds and smells. What would summ...
1.9K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 228.0 Cheers & Jeers
Smell that cotton candy! Cheers for county fairs, especially Coos County's annual hootenanny next week in Myrtle Point. Things to do, prizewinning animals to admire, old friends to visit, and a familiar cacophony of sounds and smells. What would summ...
1.9K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 228.0 See you in the forest
BUNKER HILL A politically precocious preschooler stole the show Wednesday, as Oregon Department of Forestry officials opened bids for two Elliott State Forest timber sales. A couple-dozen environmental activists attended the event, held in the agen...
3.1K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 360.0 Arrests clear site of protest
REEDSPORT Timber operators are free to return to work on the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. But 27 demonstrators who disrupted logging this week at the remote site 20 miles from Reedsport are headed to court, charged w...
2.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 913.0 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 913.0 Sanctimony in a treehouse
If you want to look down on other people, climbing a tree is a good start. You just perch yourself in a makeshift crow s nest and smugly survey the earthbound working stiffs whose livelihoods you re disrupting. Out in the Elliott State Forest, a band...
2.1K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 228.0 Police handcuff timber sale protesters
ELLIOTT STATE FOREST Police have taken control of a logging site in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport, arresting at least 15 protesters. Oregon State Police and the Douglas County Sheriff s Office sent a team to the 79-acre timber sale at mid...
2.3K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 913.0 Protesters report arrest at timber sale
Police officers have converged on the site of an anti-logging protest in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport. Two callers reported this morning that police began arresting activists at the 79-acre timber sale, but Oregon State Police officials ha...
3.2K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 913.0 Activists barricade logging road
REEDSPORT Roseburg Forest Products foresters expected to hear chain saws this week in the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. Instead, activists with Earth First! and Cascadia Rising Tide barricaded a logging road about 16 ...
3.6K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
