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Austin James, Jr., Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs/CDFWAn Oregon-born gray wolf, which made headlines for traveling farther south in California than any known wolf in nearly a century, has died, apparently hit by a vehicle. -
Jes Burns/OPB/EarthFixOver 1000 acres of crucial habitat on Mt. Ashland will be preserved through a large grant to a nonprofit conservation group.
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Environmental groups say the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves has left the animals vulnerable. -
Invasive smallmouth and striped bass came into the Coquille River roughly a decade ago. They've been feasting on young salmon since, disrupting the numbers of this prized fish. Now the Coquille Indians and the state department of Fish & Wildlife are going on the offensive, electro-fishing being one of the latest tools at their disposal.
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The Humboldt marten, a cat-sized animal in the weasel family, stands to gain over a million acres in protected habitat along the coast of Oregon and California. That’s according to a new proposal by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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An estimated 2,500 Chinook salmon died before they could reach their spawning grounds in Whatcom County in September.
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An Oregon gray wolf’s epic walkabout in Southern California is pushing the boundaries of the endangered species’ range.
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An extremely rare bumble bee that’s in imminent danger of extinction was listed under the Endangered Species Act on Monday. The Franklin’s bumble bee is found in just five counties in southwest Oregon and far northern California. The new protection will bring resources and the hope of finding and protecting the species.
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In the drought-stricken Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, water is a precious resource. Who gets that water hinges, in large part, on two types of fish that live only there.
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When Rep. Cliff Bentz visited Klamath Falls Thursday, he brought promises of government aid for farmers who won't be getting irrigation water from the federal Klamath Project this season. And he urged irrigators to resist the temptation to take matters into their own hands.
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Peoples Rights Oregon, a local chapter of a group founded by Ammon Bundy, is staffing the site as a “water crisis info center.”
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For the first time since the federal Klamath water management project in Southern Oregon was opened in 1907, the main canal supplying water to irrigators will remain closed this season.
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The federal agency will restart an environmental review to determine whether limiting mining and drilling on sage grouse habitat is crucial to the birds’ survival.
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Farmers, tribes and wildlife are facing what could be the driest year ever recorded in the Klamath Basin. The magnitude of that reality came on Wednesday, when the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced the annual water allocation for farmers in the Klamath Irrigation Project.
