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 225.0 Study: Sea turtles could go extinct
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON It s a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch. Biologists like Matthew Godfrey say on...
5.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 223.0 Kill order placed on wolves
GRANTS PASS (AP) A kill order was issued Tuesday for the first wolves caught killing livestock in Oregon since they began moving to the state. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said extensive efforts were made to p...
2.9K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 248.0 Agriculture secretary calls for new emphasis on forests
SEATTLE U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday outlined a vision for managing the nation s forests that placed a high priority on restoration to protect water resources and combat climate change. Conserving our forests is not a luxury, b...
3.7K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 272.0 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 225.0 A pile of permits
Jordan Cove Energy Project's proposed liquefied natural gas terminal and connecting pipeline projects are far from done deals. Many agencies are reviewing permits. Some still are weighing comments from the public. Here's a list of agencies. Federal a...
2.7K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 217.0 Sea turtles protected since 2001
The National Marine Fisheries Service said a petition by three environmental groups to establish critical habitat for leatherback sea turtles puts additional focus on fisheries that already try to protect turtles. NMFS has had protections in place fo...
4.2K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 146.0 Stimulus money to help Oregon wildlife projects
PORTLAND (AP) - Oregon will get almost $8.8 million out of $280 million in federal stimulus funds for national wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries across the country. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the money will create jobs, ...
1.0K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 208.0 Hunters, climate change part of bears' demise
BOZEMAN, Mont. - Hunters are killing grizzly bears in record numbers around Yellowstone National Park and researchers say the once-endangered predator is expanding across the region. Bears are being seen - and killed - in places where they were abse...
4.0K - Apr. 20, 2009; scored 161.0 Obama won't defend Bush's spotted owl cuts
Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Write GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has notified a federal court it will not support the Bush administration's cut in protections for the northern spotted owl. In a motion filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court i...
3.6K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 225.0 Navy sonar causes whale concerns
FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. - In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes. Dozens of motorists pull over on A1A and grab their cameras and binoculars as the whales ...
5.5K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 161.0 California salmon season prospects dim; limited in Oregon
SEATTLE (AP) - There won't be much of a salmon season for fishermen off the California coast for the second year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted three options Thursday for this year's ocean salmon season at a meeting in Seatt...
5.5K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 163.0 Wilderness bill stymied over gun rights issue
WASHINGTON The House on Wednesday defeated a bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness the victim of a renewed Republican push to allow concealed, loaded weapons in national parks. A majority of House mem...
5.1K - Mar. 12, 2009; scored 293.0 Comment period re-opened for murrelet
Once was not enough. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has re-opened the comment period on its proposal to revise the critical habitat for the marbled murrelet, a press release said. The seabird is a threatened species protected under the federal E...
2.9K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 195.0 Oregon report: Plan for end of timber safety net
GRANTS PASS Rural counties in Oregon the nation s top recipient of an unusual federal subsidy will have to raise taxes and take other painful steps to prepare for the day when it ends, a governor s task force said on Thursday. That day will be ...
5.7K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 255.0 Refuge addition to help rare goose
PACIFIC CITY (AP) One of the rarest wild goose populations has a new wintering ground along the Oregon coast. The Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge has been selected to receive $800,000 from a federal land conservation fund. The money ...
1.7K - Jan. 25, 2009; scored 221.0 Lawsuits challenge BLM logging increase in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Conservation groups filed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the Bush administration s last major effort to boost logging in Oregon. The Western Oregon Plan Revision, known as the Whopper, would ramp up logging on the checkerboard o...
1.6K - Jan. 16, 2009; scored 161.0 New rules eases ban on firearms in national parks
WASHINGTON (AP) People will now be able to carry concealed firearms in some national parks and wildlife refuges. An Interior Department rule issued Friday allows an individual to carry a loaded weapon in a park or wildlife refuge but only if the ...
2.9K - Dec. 6, 2008; scored 355.0 Ted Stevens fall points to political shift
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Alaska s incoming senator is bullish on gun rights, wants to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling and believes less government is better. And he s a Democrat. But definitely different than a New York ...
4.2K - Nov. 21, 2008; scored 191.0 Bush set to relax rules protecting species
WASHINGTON Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don t pose a threat, under regulations the Bush administration is set to put in place b...
4.7K - Nov. 20, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
