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 277.0 Timber sale will destroy watershed
There will be an Oregon Department of Forestry Timber Sale, Stull s Ridge No. 33, Contract No. 341-10-31, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Coos District Coos Forest Patrol Crewhouse, 63612 Fifth Road, in Coos Bay (267-4136). This is an auction that goes...
2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 289.0 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 393.0 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 429.0 Feds consider critical habitat for sea turtles
Federal fisheries managers have agreed to consider designating critical habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean off Oregon and California. NOAA Fisheries officials said Thursday they will make a decision whether to go forw...
2.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 320.0 Give ranchers OK to shoot
After being hunted to near extinction by the 1940s, wolves are making a comeback in the Pacific Northwest. Because they are protected by the state s Endangered Species Act, they no doubt will continue to flourish. Naturally, local reports of livestoc...
1.6K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 210.0 Government wants more protection for salmon
PORTLAND (AP) Calling it an insurance policy for salmon, the Obama administration has offered up a tougher conservation plan for the Pacific Northwest that includes monitoring for climate change and possible dam removal. But a top official also s...
3.3K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 210.0 Government wants more protection for salmon
PORTLAND (AP) ” Calling it an insurance policy for salmon, the Obama administration has offered up a tougher conservation plan for the Pacific Northwest that includes monitoring for climate change and possible dam removal. But a top offi...
3.2K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 210.0 Lamprey larvae studied for clues to their decline
PORTLAND (AP) Lampreys have survived for 350 million years. They ve adapted to the coming and going of ice ages, continental drift and predators that predate the dinosaurs. Yet, researchers attribute an alarming drop in a West Coast population of...
5.5K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 289.0 Judge sets deadline for salmon plan
PORTLAND (AP) A federal judge has given the Obama administration another month before informing him of its plans for improving salmon restoration efforts in the Columbia Basin. Acting on a request by NOAA Fisheries Service, U.S. District Judge Jame...
0.8K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 249.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Judge overturns Bush logging rule
GRANTS PASS - A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the...
2.8K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 432.0 Protection sought for giant earthworm
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators. They filed a petition Tuesday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service requesting the wor...
3.2K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 454.0 State OKs coho season for local rivers
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has approved a wild coho salmon season for the Coos and Coquille rivers this fall based on predictions of a large coho return to the coastal rivers and streams. Starting Sept. 1, anglers will be allowed to reta...
1.6K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 210.0 Wind power development begins on public Oregon lands
FIELDS (AP) - Anchored among clumps of sage and purplish lupine, the guy wires of a solitary weather tower thrum with wind heading in a hurry toward Idaho and Nevada. They say that in the summer it shouts, but in the winter it screams, Elon Hasson s...
7.1K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 320.0 Enviros sue to protect sea turtles off U.S. coasts
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists want a federal judge to force fisheries managers to take action on lawsuits seeking stronger protections for sea turtles. Three groups - Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sea Turtle Restoration Proj...
3.5K - May. 29, 2009; scored 350.0 Polar bears play waiting game
WASHINGTON - A decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming. The Obama administration is approaching a weekend deadline to decide whether it should a...
3.5K - May. 8, 2009; scored 579.0 Tribes protest nontribal fishing of spring Chinook
PORTLAND (AP) - Representatives of Columbia River tribes say Oregon and Washington have allowed too much nontribal fishing of upper Columbia spring Chinook at the probable expense of tribes depending on what may be an unexpectedly low run. The Columb...
3.2K - May. 4, 2009; scored 249.0 Agency begins review of coho salmon
NOAA Fisheries Service announced that it is starting a biological review of the status of Oregon Coast coho. The population of salmon has been the subject of litigation under the Endangered Species Act for more than a decade. The fisheries service s ...
0.9K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 210.0 Photo confirms wolves in Eastern Oregon lamb killings
GRANTS PASS (AP) - A motion-detector camera has caught two wolves in the act of killing lambs on a ranch in Eastern Oregon - the first documented wolf attack on livestock in Oregon since they started moving into the state in 1999. Baker City-area she...
3.4K - Apr. 16, 2009; scored 210.0 | 
