Norman I. Platnick, curator emeritus of spiders at the American Museum of Natural History, said the discovery was as exciting to spider scientists as the discovery of a new dinosaur to paleontologists.
Our recent fortune of relatively nice weekends is about to end at the most inopportune time -- right before the Pacific Northwest gets treated to at least a partial solar eclipse Sunday evening.
After nearly 30 years of non-stop court and political battles, the Obama administration hopes two of the authors of the Northwest Forest Plan can show federal agencies a new path forward.
"We need to stabilize everything so the winter rains and snow don't cause any material to go into the creek," the project manager said. "We should be buttoned up by the end of the month; that's our target."
Soil erosion may be a bigger threat to forests in southern Oregon than wildfire, according to a study that reconstructed a 2,000-year history of forest fires in the Siskiyou Mountains.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality reports it issued 1,205 dredging permits this year, up 30 percent from 934 last year. The number of Californians went from 51 in 2009 to 85 this year, up 67 percent.
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The Corvallis School District Foundation is pleased to announce that music producer and public radio dj Mike Meyer will be presenting a new summer, benefit bluegrass, Americana and roots festival dubbed Beavergrass this coming...
This is looking at the Siskiyou's as one travels up interstate 5 north towards the summit. Overlooking the west ,after a snowfall it looks spectacular covered in snow.
As the fifth artistic director in the 73-year history of one of the nation's oldest and largest Shakespeare festivals, Bill Rauch is faced with how to keep a venerable institution fresh while preserving its traditions.