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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Grants Pass</title>
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		<title>Group pulls out of talks to remove dams from Klamath River in southern Ore., northern Calif.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Group pulls out of Klamath Dam removal talks

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — One of the parties to negotiations to remove dams from the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California is pulling out before the final agreement.
The Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, Calif., announced Monday it cannot accept several provisions of the deal that is .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/group-pulls-out-of-talks-to-remove-dams-from-klamath-river-in-southern-ore-northern-calif-243978/">Source &nbsp;: Group pulls out of talks to remove dams from Klamath River in southern Ore., northern Calif.</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence of toxins in endangered fish add hurdle to restoring fish in Klamath water fights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Experts think toxic algae harming endangered fish

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced irrigation shutoffs for farmers.
U.S. Geological Survey fish biologist Scott VanderKooi (VAN-der-koy) ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/evidence-of-toxins-in-endangered-fish-add-hurdle-to-restoring-fish-in-klamath-water-fights-235933/">Original source on Gaea Times at  : Evidence of toxins in endangered fish add hurdle to restoring fish in Klamath water fights</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Toxins in endangered suckers add hurdle to restoring fish at center of Klamath water fights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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Algae toxins found in endangered fish in Klamath

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West have been found in endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced irrigation shutoffs for farmers.
U.S. Geological Survey fish biologist Scott VanderKooi (VAN-der-koy) said Wednesday .... Original source &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/toxins-in-endangered-suckers-add-hurdle-to-restoring-fish-at-center-of-klamath-water-fights-235883/">Toxins in endangered suckers add hurdle to restoring fish at center of Klamath water fights</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists: Global warming may hinder timber output in low-level Northwest forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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Study: Warmed NW forests may yield less timber

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm.
Researchers from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service .... Source article &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/scientists-global-warming-may-hinder-timber-output-in-low-level-northwest-forests-207279/">Scientists: Global warming may hinder timber output in low-level Northwest forests</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Co-founder of Oregon&#8217;s Dutch Bros. coffee chain dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A co-founder of Oregon&#8217;s Dutch Bros. coffee stand chain has died from Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease.

Travis Boersma said his brother, 55-year-old Dane Boersma, died Thursday morning at his home in Grants Pass.
The two brothers started Dutch Bros. 17 years ago. It has since grown to more than 150 coffee stands in seven .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/co-founder-of-oregons-dutch-bros-coffee-chain-dies-197703/">Source article &nbsp;: Co-founder of Oregon&#8217;s Dutch Bros. coffee chain dies</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Service backs wilderness protection for Coast Range old growth forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area in an area of Oregon&#8217;s Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil&#8217;s Staircase.

Deputy Chief Joel Haltrop appeared Thursday before a congressional subcommittee in Washington, D.C., in support of the bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/forest-service-backs-wilderness-protection-for-coast-range-old-growth-forest-184599/" title="Forest Service backs wilderness protection for Coast Range old growth forest">Source &nbsp;: Gaea News Network</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge orders feds to take closer look at beets genetically engineered to resist weed killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A federal judge overturned government approval of a variety of sugar beet genetically engineered to resist a popular weed killer produced by agricultural giant Monsanto, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco found the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated ... Read the original article on Gaea Times at  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-orders-feds-to-take-closer-look-at-beets-genetically-engineered-to-resist-weed-killer-175663/">Judge orders feds to take closer look at beets genetically engineered to resist weed killer</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Grants Pass, Ore., man grabs shotgun, kills bear that climbed in through window</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Everett Skinner and his family have started keeping their windows closed at night after a bear broke into their southwest Oregon home and he fatally shot it.

The bear ripped off a window screen and climbed into their den Saturday night, Skinner said.
Skinner&#8217;s daughter Nicole awoke at about 11:30 p.m. to a ... Original article on  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/grants-pass-ore-man-grabs-shotgun-kills-bear-that-climbed-in-through-window-123687/">Grants Pass, Ore., man grabs shotgun, kills bear that climbed in through window</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>FAA says it will take years to consider proposal for Crater Lake helicopters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A company wants to fly helicopter tours over Crater Lake National Park, but the Federal Aviation Administration says it will take &#8220;several years&#8221; to consider the proposal.

Managers of the nation&#8217;s deepest and clearest lake want to see whether flights will significantly disrupt one of the rarities of national parks — silence.
Park .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/faa-says-it-will-take-years-to-consider-proposal-for-crater-lake-helicopters-122096/">Source article on Gaea Times at  &nbsp;: FAA says it will take years to consider proposal for Crater Lake helicopters</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Federal grant goes to bumblebee habitat projects near farms in California, elsewhere in US</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/federal-grant-goes-to-bumblebee-habitat-projects-near-farms-in-california-elsewhere-in-us-112423/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — With bumblebees and other native insects that pollinate crops dying off, scientists are working on the best ways to restore natural habitat on or near farms.

The Xerces Society, based in Portland, announced this week it has received $458,000 from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to do some of the work.
Part of .... Read the original article &nbsp;: <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/federal-grant-goes-to-bumblebee-habitat-projects-near-farms-in-california-elsewhere-in-us-112423/">Federal grant goes to bumblebee habitat projects near farms in California, elsewhere in US</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Interior finds Bush plan to boost Oregon logging violates Endangered Species Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration&#8217;s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that a plan to increase logging on federal lands in western Oregon could not stand up to challenges under the ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/interior-finds-bush-plan-to-boost-oregon-logging-violates-endangered-species-act-111805/">Original source on Gaea Times at  : Interior finds Bush plan to boost Oregon logging violates Endangered Species Act</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds Bush owl plan based on false conclusion that fire increasing threat to habitat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A new study challenges a basic justification about the threat of wildfires that the Bush administration used to make room for more logging in old growth forests that are home to the northern spotted owl.

The study, appearing in the journal Conservation Biology, found no increasing threat of severe wildfires destroying old ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-finds-bush-owl-plan-based-on-false-conclusion-that-fire-increasing-threat-to-habitat-101279/" title="Study finds Bush owl plan based on false conclusion that fire increasing threat to habitat">Read more &raquo;&raquo;</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge overturns Bush administration change to rule protecting spotted owl habitat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration&#8217;s change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of ... Original article on  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-overturns-bush-administration-change-to-rule-protecting-spotted-owl-habitat-96197/">Judge overturns Bush administration change to rule protecting spotted owl habitat</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Service claims it&#8217;s done better job thinning forests to protect homes than study said</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service says it has done a lot more forest thinning to protect rural homes from wildfire than a study by outside scientists indicates — though it still falls short of the goal set by Congress.

National Fire Director Tom Harbour said Friday that by its count 43 percent of ... Read the original article on Gaea Times at  : <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/forest-service-claims-its-done-better-job-thinning-forests-to-protect-homes-than-study-said-93266/">Forest Service claims it&#8217;s done better job thinning forests to protect homes than study said</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Federal effort to protect homes from wildfire is lacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — While more than 1,000 homes across the West burn each year in forest and brush fires, only a fraction of federal efforts to reduce fire danger in the region has been concentrated in the communities at greatest risk, a group of scientists found.

The scientists analyzed a database containing the locations of ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/study-federal-effort-to-protect-homes-from-wildfire-is-lacking-75750/" title="Study: Federal effort to protect homes from wildfire is lacking">Read more &raquo;&raquo;</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>California and Oregon governors seek another salmon disaster declaration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Barnard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The governors of Oregon and California are asking the federal government to declare another West Coast salmon fishery failure — the third in four years.

Commercial salmon fishing has been closed off California and most of Oregon because of dangerously low returns of fall chinook to the Sacramento River, the second largest .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/california-and-oregon-governors-seek-another-salmon-disaster-declaration-32399/">Source &nbsp;: California and Oregon governors seek another salmon disaster declaration</a>.]]></description>
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