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Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in U.S. history

A giant female Chinook salmon flipped on her side in the shallow water and wriggled wildly, using her…

Environment

State parks, including Smith Rock, to waive fees day after Thanksgiving

Central Oregon residents wanting to avoid the Black Friday sales can instead burn off some Thanksgiving Day calories…

Environment

Forest Service begins comment period for Northwest Forest Plan amendment

The U.S. Forest Service is asking for public input on a proposed amendment to land management plans guiding…

Environment

Christmas tree permits available for Deschutes and Ochoco national forests

Cutting your own Christmas tree is a time-honored tradition. In Central Oregon, this holiday activity is fairly easy…

Environment

Forest Service starts work on wild horse adoption facility near Prineville

Two years after the U.S. Forest Service announced plans to open a wild horse adoption facility in Central…

Business

Oregon Supreme Court weighs irrigation dam’s impacts on in-stream water rights

An irrigation district hopes to persuade the Oregon Supreme Court its planned reservoir was wrongly blocked due to…

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How Trump’s return may impact Central Oregon public and private lands

The dust has hardly settled on one of the most fractious presidential elections in recent history and already,…

Environment

Oregon geologist looks to volcanic rock to store carbon dioxide as tool to fight climate change

Layers of volcanic rock in Eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Basin have created fertile soil…

Bend

How should the city lower its carbon footprint? Bend wants to hear from you

City of Bend residents have the opportunity to weigh in on a Community Climate Action Plan that local…

Environment

Deschutes River steelhead fish run highest in decades

The current run of steelhead trout in the Deschutes River has seen a record number of the fish…

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