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Wyden zeros in on plan to boost logging revenue

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:11 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - Sen. Ron Wyden is zeroing in on his plan for boosting logging on federal lands in Western Oregon and helping rural counties beset by money problems.

Feds to release money to Oregon timber counties

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:53:24 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - Federal timber payments held up by the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration will start showing up in Oregon timber county accounts next week.

Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:46:13 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.

Groups ask for big picture look at NW coal ports

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:21 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - Environmental groups and a public health organization want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider the big picture - from mining in Wyoming to air pollution in China - before allowing development of three Northwest ports to ship up to 100 million metric tons of coal a year to Asia.

2 Ore. timber counties reject public safety levies

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:20 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - Voters in two Oregon timber counties with the lowest property taxes in the state - Curry and Josephine - turned down tax increases Tuesday that would have funded law enforcement, but a jail levy passed in a third, Lane County.

Army won't kill gulls to help salmon-eating terns

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:14:31 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Upper Klamath Basin braces for irrigation shutoffs

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:31:12 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - With drought looming, the state of Oregon is preparing for the likelihood it will have to shut off irrigation access for many of the 200 cattle ranchers and hay farmers in the upper Klamath Basin as the Klamath Tribes take control of senior water rights in the region for the first time in a century.

Feds add bigger, faster planes to wildfire fleet

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:13:14 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - As the wildfire season ramps up across the West, the U.S. Forest Service is adding bigger, faster planes to its fleet to fight the fires.

Psychiatrist pleads guilty to sabotaging trails

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:35:49 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - A psychiatrist pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to 30 days in jail for planting booby traps that injured Oregon mountain bikers riding down national forest trails outside Ashland.

Klamath scientists get apology over bias claim

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:09:49 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - A federal agency at the center of the bitter water battles in the Klamath Basin has formally apologized to seven of its scientists who were accused by a supervisor of producing biased work on the water needs of salmon.

Search for Oklahoma teen turns to sightings in NW

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:31:49 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday followed up on reported sightings around the Northwest of an Oklahoma teenager whose truck was found on a remote volcanic mountain after he set out to test himself against the southeast Oregon wilderness.