3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (583+ words) In 1976, during the early days of the environmental movement, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated 9,000 acres on the Oregon Coast, at the estuary of the Salmon River, as one of its biosphere regions. This weekend, scores of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (780+ words) The initiative would remove exceptions for hunting, fishing and livestock husbandry and slaughtering from the state’s animal abuse law. It would also set up a transition fund to help ranchers, for instance, with financial assistance or seek training for some…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (759+ words) “If you look up, there are smaller boulders, basketball-sized boulders,” she whispers. “They have decent holes underneath for the pikas to hide in.” Steider is looking for pikas, mammals with furry, little bodies — about the size of a russet potato…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1018+ words) Several members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI) recently shared their perspective about harvesting a humpback whale last November. The event was to establish the mammal’s cultural and historical importance to coastal Natives. For nearly two hours on…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (618+ words) A brief moment of bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate turned political on Wednesday, when Republican lawmakers introduced a new provision to a wildfire bill. That bill, called the Wildfire Prevention Act, would mandate increasing prescribed fires and forest thinning in federal…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (528+ words) A group of Siletz Indians are holding a presentation Saturday, June 6 to honor a humpback whale that washed ashore near Yachats last fall and died. The event is to help non-Natives understand the historical and cultural significance of these mammals....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (112+ words) A 70-foot blue whale skeleton is now on display at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. People on the coast over the holiday weekend can be among the first to look at it. The blue whale had…...

2+ mon, 12+ hour ago  (199+ words) Oregon researchers say forest thinning practices don’t have to clash with efforts to protect the northern spotted owl. But Jeremy Rockweit, a postdoctoral student at Oregon State University, says controlled fire doesn’t need to burn efforts to preserve wildlife, including…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (476+ words) A blue whale skeleton is being assembled at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The project is the culmination of more than 10 years of effort. The dead whale washed up on a beach in southern Oregon in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (457+ words) The opponents of the “Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights” initiative have raised around 10 times more money than the supporters, as of Monday. Measure 20-373 is on the May 19 ballot. It would grant local ecosystems the right to exist free from…...