Removing dam would end live fish counts
MEDFORD (AP) After decades of counting live salmon and steelhead reaching the upper Rogue River, biologists will be stuck counting only dead ones if Gold Ray Dam and its long-standing fish-counting station disappear as proposed next fall. Jackson C...
 0.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 779.0 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 61.0 Fewer sea lions eat more salmon
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and st...
3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 515.0 Diaz, Marsden, Kelly's 'Box' is empty
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly s The Box : Press a button on a mysterious container, they ll get $1 million, and someone they don t know will die. What button, on whose box, did Kelly push to get t...
3.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 Childhood chums paddle the Rogue to the sea
MEDFORD Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper. For 91 miles, ...
4.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 185.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 61.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Rains are moving fish into upper tidewater and fresh fish are expected to pulse in soon. The last day to fish for cutthroat trout is today. Coos County lakes: There was an additional stocking of both trophy- and legal-size trout last w...
2.4K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 61.0 Meetings will discuss future fishing
Fishery managers will seek public comments on issues affecting future fisheries for Columbia River white sturgeon and spring Chinook salmon at a meeting scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Astoria. The meeting is sponsored by the Orego...
2.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 61.0 Columbia River commerce protected by weakened wall
ASTORIA (AP) It s a mild October morning on the Oregon Coast. Yet, even on a windless day with the ocean glassy smooth, it s a rough ride at the point where the Columbia River smashes into the Pacific Ocean. A 60-ton boat, designed to ferry elite p...
6.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 61.0 Property owners along Rogue bemoan removal of dam
ROGUE RIVER Jan Tarantino peers over her summer patio and dock on what used to be Savage Lake, looking down at the Rogue River flowing more than 15 feet below. The dock was a fishing platform and diving board for the past 10 summers when Savage R...
5.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 493.0 North Korea: Naval clash is a possibility
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea warned South Korea today that a rash of reckless incursions at their disputed maritime border could spark a naval clash. North Korea s navy accused South Korean warships of routinely broaching its territory 10 tim...
3.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 61.0 Without supply, prices skyrocket
This is just some food for thought and not Chicken Little saying the sky is falling. It seems that there will be more electric cars in our near future. There is a lot of pressure to get away from gas-powered vehicles in an effort to go green, which...
1.4K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 61.0 Groups say nothing new in Columbia salmon plan
Groups suing to make Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safer for salmon say there is nothing new or real about the Obama administration s revised plans for saving threatened and endangered salmon. Formal responses from the state of Oregon, the Nez Pe...
2.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 493.0 Crews breaching Savage Rapids Dam
ROGUE RIVER(AP) After 88 years, the Rogue River will again flow through its historic channel at Savage Rapids. A dam has blocked the river since 1921, but it s being breached. Demolition crews today will slowly divert the Rogue into a new pilot ch...
0.6K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 318.0 Those dams have got to go
The tentative agreement to remove four Klamath River dams was a welcome breakthrough on an issue that, in recent years, has divided local, state and federal officials, farmers, fishermen, Native Americans, environmentalists and a host of others. Bu...
1.6K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 443.0 Fred J. Abel
A funeral Mass will be held for Fred J. Abel, 82, of Yelm, Wash., at 9 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 15, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lacey, Wash. Fred was born Dec. 2, 1926, in Hibbing, Minn., the son of Joseph Ludger Lee Abel and Clarice Marie Abel....
2.4K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook anglers are having slow to fair success. Anglers are catching coho, but only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. COOS COUNTY LAKES: Fishing for largem...
4.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 61.0 Salmon restoration effort begins on California river
FRESNO, Calif. When Darrell Imperatrice was a boy, California s San Joaquin River teemed with so many king salmon his father could catch 40-pound fish using only a pitchfork. Then the salmon vanished from the icy river for nearly 60 years, after a ...
5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 173.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Anglers are having slow to fair success for fall Chinook. Only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County Lakes: Fishing for largemouth bass and yellow perch...
3.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 61.0 Judge asks responses to Obama salmon plan
PORTLAND (AP) A federal judge has asked critics of the Obama administration s plan for Northwest salmon to file their responses by Oct. 2. The administration will then have two weeks to submit its reply to U.S. District Judge James Redden in Portla...
1.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 123.0 | 
