Faced with a difficult decision about protecting – or not protecting – the Greater sage-grouse, Interior says it’s going to split the difference.
Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday morning that the sage-grouse deserves to be listed by the Endangered Species Act, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. The official label is that listing...
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Bradwood Landing LNG
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality heads to Astoria this evening for a public meeting on the Bradwood Landing LNG project. Could be interesting. DEQ is reviewing Clean Air, Clean Water and other permits that Bradwood needs before it can be built. It will explain that process at the meeting.
A recent letter from...
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After a few brutal years, things are looking somewhat better for Oregon’s coastal salmon fishermen.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council released its salmon forecast for 2010. Salmon numbers on the Sacramento and Klamath rivers are high enough to allow for some kind of commercial fishing season off Southern Oregon and California.
Along the Northern Oregon and...
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The all you can eat seafood buffet at Bonneville Dam is open for business.
Early season numbers from Oregon Fish and Wildlife tell us that anywhere from a dozen to two dozen sea lions are hanging out at the dam, enjoying the easy pickings of salmon and sturgeon. Most of are Steller sea lions, only...
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One of the biggest wildlife stories of last year was news that a pack of ten wolves are living in the Imnaha Wildlife Management Unit in Wallowa County.
In order to better follow the pack and understand their movements, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife captured three pack members last weekend and...
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Accusing the feds of dragging their feet, the Center For Biological Diversity has filed four lawsuits to win Endangered Species protection for 93 types of wildlife and plants.
In Oregon, the Center is seeking protection for the dusky tree vole, the black-footed albatross and dozens of native mollusks.
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For a young steelhead on its way to the ocean, river estuaries are the last stop – in more ways than one.
Research from Oregon State University shows that about half of migrating steelhead never make it the ocean. Instead they get as far as the estuary at the river’s end and abruptly die. That...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will announce tomorrow (Friday) that’s it’s denying endangered species status for the America Pika, a small cousin of the rabbit that goes by the nickname, “boulder bunny.”
The decision is a huge disappointment for environmental groups. They say the pika is danger of going extinct because of global warming....
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Several environmental groups are coming together with a new proposal for removing four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River in Oregon and California.
It’s response to an earlier agreement announced in September by the Interior Department. While that agreement laid the foundation for dam removal, many environmental groups were not satisfied with it.
Today’s proposal is...
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When the chinook salmon return on the Columbia River next spring, get ready for massive numbers of fish.
Wildlife officials say they’re expecting about 470,000 chinook for the spring run. If that prediction is accurate, it would be the biggest return of spring chinook since 1938.
The announcement by Oregon Fish and Wildlife, Washington Fish and...
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