'This is our top priority'
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Group challenges timber producer's 'green' label
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A watchdog group is challenging the environmentally friendly “green lumber” certification for Plum Creek Timberlands, one of the nation’s biggest landowners and timber producers.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
DOJ: Tribes can sell, grow marijuana
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for states that have legalized the drug, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Study: Killing wolves means more attacks
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
California Wildfire
Firefighters hose down the smoldering remains of a home, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Weed, Calif. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed at least 100 structures before winds died down and firefighters got a line around most of the fire. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
New plan proposed to save bull trout
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Obama administration is offering a new approach to saving the bull trout, a fish whose need for clean and cold water has put it in conflict with logging, mining and grazing in the Northwest.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
$40M request to pay record wildfire costs deferred
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Forest Service stops logging early
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The U.S. Forest Service confirmed Friday it is shutting down logging operations on national forests across the country due to the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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New plan offered to make Northwest dams safe for salmon
The Obama administration's latest plan for making 14 hydroelectric dams in the Northwest safe for salmon offers no major changes in strategy and continues to rely on habitat improvements to overcome the numbers of fish killed by the dams.
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Doctors don't follow retirees to rural areas
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Nina Musselman had no trouble finding a family doctor when she retired to rural Oregon nine years ago to be closer to her children. But then that doctor moved away, leaving her to search for another who would take Medicare.
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Dead cattle, devastation in wake of Western fires
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Lawn-chair balloonist plans Baghdad flight
Lawn-chair balloonist Kent Couch boarded a plane Thursday for the start of a journey that he hopes will end in Iraq with a safe launch and landing beneath a huge cluster of party balloons.
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Critics say Obama abandons science in new forest rules
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Obama administration's proposed new rules for protecting clean water and wildlife on the United States' nearly 200 million acres of national forests goes against the president's pledge to let science be the guide, conservation groups and two former Clinton administration officials said Monday.
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West Coast affected by tsunami
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - The warnings traveled quickly across the Pacific in the middle of the night: An 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan spawned a deadly tsunami, and it was racing east Friday as fast as a jetliner.
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Warming trend could affect our forests
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists predict that lodgepole pine - one of the most common trees at higher elevations in the Cascades and Rockies - will be largely gone from the Northwest by 2080 due to the warming climate.
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Obama administration extends moratorium
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Obama administration Friday extended for another year the moratorium on most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote and rugged backcountry sections of national forests.
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