Late notice, I know. I just got word of this a short while ago.
If you’re in the Portland area you may want to attend a meeting this evening on a new management plan for BLM land in Southeast Oregon.
Late notice, I know. I just got word of this a short while ago.
If you’re in the Portland area you may want to attend a meeting this evening on a new management plan for BLM land in Southeast Oregon.
The Chetco River in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Photo by Lee Webb, U.S. Forest Service.
Plans for a huge gold mining operation has put the Chetco River in Southern Oregon on this year’s “Most Endangered Rivers” list.
Some 50-million acres of our country’s wildest places will be protected for at least another year.
Photo from Friends Of Mt. Emily.
An icon of Northeast Oregon has a date with the logger, unless a lot of money can be raised quickly.
What’s at risk is 500 acres of the Mt. Emily Recreation Area near La Grande. A timber company is getting ready to cut down most of the big trees in the Trails Unit, a section that’s hugely popular with hikers, bikers and horseback riders.
Local efforts to save the trees are falling behind and falling short. So the group Friends of Mt. Emily is appealing statewide for help.
One of the largest employers in the Portland Harbor says it will appeal the city’s new plan to help restore the Willamette River.
The Portland Tribune report that Gunderson, a maker of rail cars and marine barges, filed a notice with Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals. The company tells the Trib the plan isn’t balanced enough toward business interests.
See Portland Tribune: River Plan challenged
Wildlife officials are confirming reports out of Wallowa County that a calf was killed by wolves.
It’s the first attack on livestock in Oregon this year, and the first for Wallowa County since the return of gray wolves.
There’s no doubt that salmon raised in hatcheries are important. They make up the bulk of what’s caught in the ocean. But researchers meeting this week in Portland say hatchery salmon pose a threat to their wild cousins.
OPB: Scientists Determine Hatchery Salmon Threaten Wild Fish
ODFW is looking for help as it battles an army of invasive goldfish at a lake in Eastern Oregon.
More help is on the way to farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin.
The Agriculture Department has designated Klamath County as a “primary natural disaster area” because of drought conditions.
Does this land need "liberating" from the federal government? Photo of the Umpqua National Forest from the U.S. Forest Service.
Apparently they do, according to Oregonians in Action. The property rights group says it will lobby the next Legislature to pass a law giving Oregon the power to condemn and seize federally owned land in the state.
That includes 15 National Forests and Monuments, a National Park, and millions of acres of land managed by the BLM. About 55% of the state is federal land, according to OIA.
