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Articles from the January 22, 2017 edition


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  • “Crick” or “Creek?”

    Jan 22, 2017

    New book about Camp Creek community to print soon Small log truck CAMP CREEK: Compiling a hundred years of local history has been a task Susan Thomas hopes to wrap up soon. “This whole project,” she recalls, “goes back to 1999 when I was teaching at Camp Creek Elementary, preparing for the school’s 50th anniversary. I started talking to a lot of people and visited with community member Betty Miller.” Miller, Susan learned, had always wanted to put together some kind of community book that would include some of the photos and facts she’d alr...

  • Comments sought on Salmon/Steelhead hatcheries

    Jan 22, 2017

    Upper Willamette Basin includes the McKenzie River The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced has begun a process to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for salmon and steelhead hatchery programs currently operating in the Upper Willamette River Basin of Oregon. NMFS is also requesting public review and comment on four Hatchery and Genetic Management Plans submitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for evaluation under the Endangered Species Act’s 4(d) rule for threatened salmon and steelhead. The Army Corps’ plan speci...

  • Agencies clash over floodplain restrictions

    Jan 22, 2017

    8-foot setback will impact all Lane streambank properties Flood Flood insurance or fish? Officials of counties, cities and other municipalities around Oregon had that question put on their platters in April. That’s when a lawsuit by environmental groups generated recommendations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlining ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency should modify the National Flood Insurance Program. Throughout the state, 15 salmon and steelhead species are listed under an Environmental Impact S...