Jeff Barnard

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

idahostatesman.com — Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.

Klamath County raids target rural drugs-and-guns ring

registerguard.com — GRANTS PASS - More than 300 local, state and federal officers, some in camouflage gear and helmets, fanned out across rural Klamath County in the pre-dawn darkness Wednesday and arrested 30 people accused of operating a methamphetamine and gun distribution network connected to Mexican drug cartels.

Man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil killed by car

mercurynews.com — A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup has died after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast. Police in Lincoln City say 42-year-old Richard Swanson was hit Tuesday morning while walking south along U.S.

AP IMPACT: Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths

abcnews.go.com — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic birds is not just an irreplaceable loss for a...

Oregon National Guard to shows off drones

seattletimes.com — Originally published Monday, May 13, 2013 at 4:41 PM PENDLETON, Ore. - The Oregon National Guard will be showing off four new drones that are based at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton. The guard is holding a press conference at the airport Tuesday, where it will fly the unmanned aircraft for the first time in civilian airspace.

Army won't kill gulls to help tern colony's young

columbian.com — GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.

When Rainbow Trout Go Bug Hunting, Anglers Are Waiting

nytimes.com — WARM SPRINGS, Ore. - The sky was not exactly dark in a blotting-out-the-sun sense, but the salmon flies were certainly thick above central Oregon's Lower Deschutes River. Thousands of female specimens circled 30 feet above the water's surface, preparing to descend and drop their eggs.

Study: Fish oil doesn't help prevent heart attacks

montereyherald.com — Click photo to enlarge Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found.

River otters are making a comeback in the Bay Area

marinij.com — While most people are familiar with their famed seafaring cousins, river otters in the Bay Area are seldom noticed or talked about. The sleek water weasels -- about a quarter the size of sea otters -- had long been nonexistent on Bay Area wildlife maps. But now they

Smokejumpers parachute into illegal pot garden

sfgate.com — (AP) â A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal pot garden being prepared for growing season. Jackson County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the smokejumpers notified authorities, who hiked into the remote Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest site.