The Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, et al. sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, challenging its plan to expand logging in the Klamath Falls Resource Area to 111 million board feet of timber in an already fragmented landscape.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will not list the California spotted owl as an endangered species.
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Decades of efforts, including billions of dollars spent, to prevent the extinction of 13 species of Columbia River salmon and steelhead were stymied by the resurgence of gregarious mammals who themselves returned from the brink. Now, a new plan backed by Native American tribes and three states would attempt to protect the fish by killing more sea lions.
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Oregon should cough up $1.4 billion to rural counties who claim the state is not logging its forests aggressively enough, lawyers argued Friday in a trial over whether the state is sacrificing revenue to manage state forests for conservation and recreation goals.
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The first dead bull was found in a timbered ravine in eastern Oregon. There was no indication it had been shot, attacked by predators or eaten poisonous plants. The animal’s sex organs and tongue had been removed. All the blood was gone.
Read moreThe Oregon Natural Desert Association, et al., sued the Bureau of Land Management in federal court, claiming the Trump administration illegally reversed a decision to close 22,000 acres to grazing to study the effects of grazing on the greater sage grouse.
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Amid news that ocean fish will face increasingly severe marine heatwaves, a U.S. government agency said the cold inland rivers where salmon are born and reproduce would face “substantial impacts of an unprecedented scale” if a proposed natural gas pipeline is built according to initial plans.
Read moreOver the last century, Oregon let salmon runs go extinct in some parts of the state and then erased them from people’s knowledge, according to environmental groups behind a new petition to list spring Chinook as endangered.
Read moreA federal judge granted Cascadia Wildlands’ request that the Bureau of Land Management be ordered “to issue a new environmental assessment that adequately discloses and analyzes the likely increase of fire hazard to adjacent communities, (and) make it available for public review and comment,” regarding logging in the Willamalane Park and Recreation District in Oregon.
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A tiny fish native to remote waterways in Oregon has been removed from the federal list of endangered species after decades of work to recover and restore the fish’s habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown appointed the state’s first public records advocate in 2018 as part of a campaign to improve transparency, but her office stymied the chance of that happening, according to advocate Ginger McCall, who said in her resignation letter Monday that she was pressured to act secretly in the governor’s best interests.
Read moreU.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called for a federal investigation into tactics used by a Canadian pipeline company working to secure the rights to build a natural gas pipeline in rural southern Oregon, after elderly landowners claimed the company harassed them and trespassed on their land.
Read moreThe sheriff of a remote Oregon county closed an investigation Wednesday that began when local officials accused newspaper reporters of harassment for emailing them after office hours.
Read moreFour Oregon dairy farmers filed a class action against the Tillamook County Creamery Association, claiming it sells dairy products through false claims that they are sourced from small farms in Tillamook County.
Read moreThe expected melee between extreme right wing protesters and antifascist counter-demonstrators didn’t fully materialize Saturday, resolving with a handful of scattered arrests as far right organizers in town from Utah and Florida called the rally “a success” while retreating to drink beer at a barbecue.
Read moreThe risk of wildfire has dramatically increased in the west, and most of that increase is because of humans. But experts told utilities commissioners Friday that presents a silver lining: problems caused by people can also be solved by them.
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Experts say it’s only a matter of time before a shift in a major fault line off the Oregon coast causes a massive earthquake that generates a tsunami as much as seven stories tall. Yet workers at Yaquina Bay are building an ocean studies building smack in the middle of a tsunami zone.
Read moreAfter a rare live stranding, officials euthanized a beached humpback whale Thursday after he was unable to ride three successive high tides back out to sea.
Read moreOregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill Friday that environmentalists say will weaken protections of wetlands and intermittent streams, reversing course after announcing on Monday that she would likely veto the controversial bill.
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