Juliet Grable
JPR News ContributorJuliet Grable is a writer based in Southern Oregon and a regular contributor to JPR News. She writes about wild places and wild creatures, rural communities, and the built environment. Juliet is a volunteer firefighter and EMT for the Greensprings Rural Fire District. During her off time, she can be found exploring back roads and back country with her husband Brint and pup Roca.
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The marsh is part of an innovative restoration project at Lakeside Farms. It’s a hopeful demonstration of cooperation in a region that has seen bitter fights between tribes, farmers, and wildlife advocates over who gets scarce water.
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The project is being funded in part by a state initiative aimed at helping communities recover from the Labor Day fires of 2020. It’s also an experiment aimed at tackling multiple issues at once: rising material costs, a severe shortage of construction labor, and an urgent need for housing for working families and fire victims.
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It’s Friday night in downtown Ashland. There’s a slight scrim of haze from wildfires to the east and west, but compared to the last few years, the skies are blessedly clear.
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Volunteer firefighters are at the front lines of today’s larger, more dangerous wildfires. Are we up for the job?
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Black-tailed deer are becoming an increasingly common sight in Southern Oregon towns. Residents there are split over whether more hunting is the right option to control the growing population.