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.
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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.
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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...
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Ever have one of those days? You make a lot of phone calls and nobody is calling you back? That’s what I get for slacking off yesterday and trying to do some news gathering the day before a long Holiday weekend. When they do call back, I’ll have some interesting stuff to report. But...
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Interior Secretary Salazar is stepping into the middle of one of the Northwest’s longest running environmental battles, logging the vast federal forests of Western Oregon. The challenge is this: how do you create a steady supply of timber for local economies without hurting those forests and the endangered species that live there? The two...
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The timber industry filed suit last week, hoping to force the Obama Administration to bring back a Bush-era logging plan for Western Oregon. It’s known as the Western Oregon Plan Revisions, or WOPR. If it went into effect, it would greatly increase how much logging is allowed on more than 2.5 million acres of...
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As far as Oregon is concerned, this may be the biggest blow yet to Bush-era environmental policies. And local green groups couldn’t be happier. Today, the Interior Department says it’s killing a plan that would greatly increase logging on about 2.6 million acres of federal forests in Western Oregon. The plan, known as the...
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Welcome to our first video story produced for Natural Oregon. Recently, we joined researcher David Wiens of Oregon State University on a field trip in the forests near Veneta, Oregon. He and his team are studying the competition between the Northern Spotted Owl and the Barred Owl, a relative newcomer to the state. We...
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Just a couple of days before the Memorial Day weekend, the BLM office in Coos Bay says it’s opening several campgrounds and recreation sites. The Coos Bay district includes ten campgrounds with 158 sites near Reedsport, Coquille and other areas along the southern Oregon Coast. One of the the campgrounds, at the Loon Lake...
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High above the Rogue Valley, the Table Rocks are the remnants of an ancient lava flow, and so unusual they support species found nowhere else on Earth. According to the Medford Mail Tribune, more of this area will be protected thanks to the Nature Conservancy. The group says it’s completed a $4 million deal...
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Senator Ron Wyden’s latest attempt to find some common ground on managing Northwest forests is… no surprise here… getting mixed reviews. As described in this Associated Press report via the Register Guard, Wyden says he wants to stop logging of old growth trees while shifting the focus to more thinning of forests. (In my...
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