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 403.0 USFS backs new Wilderness area near Reedsport
GRANTS PASS The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area near Reedsport. It s in an area of the Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil s Staircase. The agency s deputy chief, Joel Haltrop, appeared Th...
2.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 339.0 California officials blast Coos Bay LNG proposal
Local opponents of developing a liquefied natural gas project and an ancillary pipeline have found allies in another Bay Area. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution this week asking Pacific Gas Electric Corp. to withd...
5.6K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 674.0 FAA: Years to consider Crater Lake helicopters
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will take several years to consider a Bend, company s application to offer helicopter tours over Crater Lake National Park. FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said Wednesday they have a backlog of 85 national p...
2.9K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 339.0 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 Study: Owl habitat doesn't fuel fire threat
GRANTS PASS A new study challenges a basic justification on the threat of wildfires that the Bush administration used to increase logging in old growth forests that are home to the northern spotted owl. The study, appearing in the journal Conservat...
2.8K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 901.0 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 561.0 Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace
TAKILMA - On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chainsaws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and piling the remains to be burned later. Fresh...
8.6K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 403.0 Board votes to increase harvest on state forests
GRANTS PASS - Pressed by counties and the timber industry, the Oregon Board of Forestry has voted to increase logging in state forests in the northwestern corner of the state. The 4-2 vote Wednesday in Salem came despite a staff report that increasin...
2.8K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 339.0 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 517.0 Feds get time to decide course of logging lawsuit
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has been given more time to decide whether it wants to defend the lawsuits challenging Bush administration plans to boost logging on federal forests in Western Oregon. In papers filed in the various federal cour...
2.5K - May. 21, 2009; scored 467.0 Study: LNG could work at CB
Federal officials have concluded the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay is workable. If Jordan Cove Energy Project builds its LNG terminal on the North Spit and a 234-mile connecting pipeline, it would damage the environment, but mos...
3.8K - May. 2, 2009; scored 339.0 Study: LNG could work at CB
Federal officials have concluded the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Coos Bay is workable. If Jordan Cove Energy Project builds its LNG terminal on the North Spit and a 234-mile connecting pipeline, it would damage the environment, but mos...
3.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 339.0 Owl is at home in Home Depot
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice in the garden center. Someone with wings. A great horned owl flew inside of the Harrison store's garden center during a January ice storm and built a nest at...
1.6K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 566.0 Removal of Rogue dam spells end of bitter battle
GRANTS PASS - Within weeks, jackhammers will start knocking Savage Rapids Dam into rubble, and with it two decades of bitter battles over whether to keep what had become a crumbling symbol of a bygone era when rugged pioneers bent nature to their nee...
5.0K - Apr. 8, 2009; scored 403.0 Thank Bush - here come the lawsuits
Did the Bush administration do anything right when it came to scientific opinion? With the northern spotted owl, it didn t. The Obama administration should review the shoddy science Bush s appointees devised for the Western Oregon timber management ...
1.8K - Apr. 3, 2009; scored 403.0 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 871.0 Logging lawsuit includes endangered species claims
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Conservation groups have added new endangered species claims to their lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's plans to boost logging in Western Oregon. The amended complaint was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Cou...
0.9K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 339.0 BLM change could cut county aid
When Coos County s timber aid runs out in 2011, will the county still get federal timber money? Yes, but no consistent dollar amount. The Coos Bay District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has answered that question on the minds of county leader...
5.9K - Mar. 5, 2009; scored 339.0 BLM change could cut county aid
When Coos County s timber aid runs out in 2011, will the county still get federal timber money? Yes, but no consistent dollar amount. The Coos Bay District of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has answered that question on the minds of county leader...
7.5K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 339.0 | 
