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Researchers at Oregon State University say new discoveries about how some Chinook salmon breed could help guide conservation efforts.
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Oregon's gray wolf population took several hits in 2023, causing its growth rate to drop to zero for the first time since wolves started returning to the state.
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FWS claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl.
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A federal study ordered by Congress concluded it would be feasible to reintroduce sea otters to the Oregon and northern California coasts. However, that finding doesn't mean the super-cute predators will be relocated into their former ocean habitat anytime soon.
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The tunnel project, which would cost billions and take decades, aims to help shore up water supplies in much of California. The new environmental impact report outlines the impacts.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is developing a plan to manage the invasive Barred owl population on the West Coast. The plan would help with recovery of spotted owl species.
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This week, over 70 people are searching in and around Mt. Ashland for Franklin’s bumble bee. The bee was last seen 16 years ago, but it’s hard to tell if the species is extinct.
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Lawsuit aims to protect threatened species, but fire scientist says management delays could be worseFour environmental groups are threatening to sue federal agencies over a new forest treatment plan. The activists say the Bureau of Land Management isn’t doing enough to protect two threatened species in Southern Oregon.
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Amid drastic declines in Chinook salmon in the Coquille River watershed, the Coquille Indian Tribe last year began pushing the state for more authority in managing natural resources in southwest Oregon, culminating in a state commission approving an agreement.
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The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
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At least three companies have staked mining claims in some of the best remaining sage grouse habitat in Oregon.
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A group of environmental organizations has filed a notice to sue Pacific Gas & Electric over declining fish species in California’s Eel River.
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The Western Oregon Habitat Conservation Plan would offer the state legal protection for 70 years of forest management.
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Abalone are near extinction, but UC Davis researchers think they can help turn that around with the help of an old medical tool used in hospitals for decades: ultrasounds.