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...
 1.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 110.0 Beasts of the East? Try the Nasty North
The toughest divisions to make a living in the NFL these days are not the NFC or AFC East. This popular notion has gone the way of the efficient offense in Washington and Buffalo. It s disappeared. To find the most competitive climate in pro football...
5.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 69.0 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 110.0 Study: Warm forests may yield less timber
GRANTS PASS (AP) A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from...
4.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 110.0 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 69.0 Burn postponed at Crater Lake
CRATER LAKE (AP) Officials at Crater Lake National Park have postponed a 1,350-acre prescribed fire until the weather improves. The fire on the northeast section of the park had been tentatively planned for Friday, but officials say they delayed it...
0.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 69.0 West s wild horses may move East
WASHINGTON Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department plan to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said ...
3.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 69.0 Cooler weather gives firefighters some help
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) Cooling temperatures and higher humidity early today gave firefighters some welcome relief as they waged an ongoing assault against a wildfire that had burned to the edges of a popular resort town in the San Gabriel Mountain...
0.9K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 69.0 Service will honor fallen firefighters
The 28th annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service on Sunday, Oct. 4, will honor nine Oregon firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2008. The service includes honors for Edrik Gomez, 19, of Coquille, who died with six other firefight...
1.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 69.0 Oregon fires grow; cooler weather helps
ROSEBURG (AP) Wildfires in the Umpqua National Forest continue to grow, but cooler weather Thursday should help firefighters. The Boze and Rainbow Creek fires are a combined 9,400 acres, and forest spokeswoman Pam Sichting said the blazes will caus...
0.8K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 278.0 Hot, windy weather stokes California blaze
MOORPARK, Calif. (AP) Crews planned heavy air attacks today at daybreak to halt the spread of a Southern California wildfire that has chewed through more than 25 square miles of bone dry brush, threatening hundreds of homes as well as a multimillio...
2.9K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 359.0 Wildfires obscure the sun in Eugene
EUGENE (AP) Smoke from the Boze wildfire in the Umpqua National Forest left people coughing and rubbing their eyes in Eugene. National Weather Service meteorologist Liana Ramirez said little of the smoke that reddened eyes and ash that coated cars ...
0.7K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 278.0 Firefighters contain fire near Medford
MEDFORD (AP) A 150-acre fire that burned a home in Ashland has been contained, and firefighters have completed a line around the 630-acre fire in Medford s east hills. Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Brian Ballou said this morning that fire...
1.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 Fire threatens Ashland homes
ASHLAND (AP) Evacuations are under way on the outskirts of Ashland, where a fast-moving brush fire has put dozens of homes at risk. The Ashland Fire Department says it responded to a structure and grass fire late Monday morning just southeast of th...
0.7K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 69.0 Wildfire exposes, destroys pot plantations
LOS ANGELES The wildfire that has ravaged a national forest near Los Angeles has burned one plant species that authorities were happy to see go: marijuana, lots of it. The fire destroyed an untold number of marijuana plantations in the Angeles Nat...
4.7K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 836.0 Co-pilot implored chopper to fly
WASHINGTON - The co-pilot of a helicopter ferrying firefighters implored Fly darlin , fly darlin , fly darlin , fly darlin ... as the chopper lost power and fell out of the air in a rugged area of Northern California last year, according to a cock...
2.8K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 69.0 CFPA dedication keeps forest safe
Thank you to Coos Forest Patrol Association, which held an open house over Labor Day weekend and to the employees who did an outstanding job welcoming the public to their Bunker Hill location. If you were not able to attend, you truly missed out. Smo...
1.0K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 69.0 Fire station to host open house
The Coos Forest Protective Association Brookings Station will host an open house where people can learn about wildland fire protection in Coos, Curry and Western Douglas counties. The event will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at 415 Redwood St. in B...
0.8K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Stimulus funds local forest projects
Oregon will receive more than $17 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to protect forests on the South Coast and in Southern, Central and Eastern Oregon from wildfires, invasive species and disease outbreaks. The funding w...
1.1K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 LA fire is more than half contained
LOS ANGELES Fire officials tried to stay aggressive in stunting the growth of a huge wildfire north of Los Angeles, but the flames and the winds that fanned them have proved unpredictable. Firefighters have contained 60 percent of the huge wildfire...
2.4K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 359.0 | 
