Oregon growers look forward to new era

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Protecting a population

Government hunters have begun scouting an island at the mouth of the Columbia River as they prepare to shoot thousands of hungry seabirds to stop them from eating baby salmon.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Biologists say there's enough data to decide wolf protection

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - State biologists are telling the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission there is enough information to consider taking the gray wolf off the state endangered species list.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Feds celebrate sage grouse deal with Oregon ranchers

The Obama administration and Gov. Kate Brown joined with Oregon ranchers to celebrate agreements they all hope will help keep the sage grouse off the endangered species list.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Oregon's wandering wolf, OR-7, gets official pack status

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Oregon's famous wandering wolf, OR-7, is now officially the leader of his own pack.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO

Forest Service pulls protested plan to spend $10M on image

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Faced with a backlash from current and retired employees, the U.S. Forest Service has abruptly dropped plans to spend up to $10 million on a five-year nationwide public relations campaign to brand itself as a public agency that cares about people and nature.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO

'What in the world were you thinking?'

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A 15-year-old who shot and killed his foster father and another man at a remote Oregon cabin in 2012 never meant to kill anyone and never should have been around loaded guns due to his lack of maturity after years of abuse and other problems, a …

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

New plan to save bull trout drops number goals

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.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Light rain helps fight some Northwest wildfires

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Light rain and cooler temperatures Wednesday helped dampen explosive wildfires in Northern California and southwestern Oregon that were threatening more than 1,000 scattered rural homes.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Wandering Oregon wolf sires pups in Cascades

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO