It wasn’t all that long ago that the Oregon State Parks system was on the brink of collapse. After years of budget cuts, park maintenance had fallen so far behind that more than five dozen state parks were in danger of shutting down.
But a group of Oregonians came to the rescue, and in 1998 voters...
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The news that native oyster beds are disappearing around the world has hit home especially hard here in Oregon.
According to the Nature Conservancy, 85% of the world’s wild oyster reefs are gone. In our state, they’ve been teetering on the edge of extinction for almost a century.
Confused? Wondering where all those oysters...
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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 to...
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