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Only 14 Oregon rivers are ‘navigable’: The other 100,000 miles of waterways are in legal limbo (opens the original)
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Three Rivers is a tributary of the Nestucca River on the northern Oregon Coast. It’s a special place, especially for anglers, because it carries a lot of fish. One particular fishing hole, 3 miles south of Hebo, sits just below the Cedar Creek Fish Hatchery. It’s where all the hatchery salmon return, fat, shiny and ready to spawn. “See his tail moving?” One angler whispers to another, pointing to a shadow underwater. “There are two fish just sitting there. One up high and one right behind it.” T
Mass fish necropsy helps forecast salmon returns in Oregon (opens the original)
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In a small lab at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, scores of scientists, students and volunteers paw over trays of fish. They’re here for the annual fish necropsy organized by Oregon State University and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration. Cheryl Morgan, the principal investigator here for OSU, leans over a tray with a scalpel and swiftly cuts open the head of a juvenile coho. “This one has a tag,” she explains. “It’s a tiny, thin piece of wire in its snout somewhere
Oregon’s UNESCO biosphere is thriving, despite federal cuts (opens the original)
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Duncan Berry clambers on board a small boat on the Salmon River, along with a couple dozen tourists. He’s the co-director of the UNESCO Cascade Head Biosphere Region and he’s here to tell people why the place is so special. “This is a salmon treaty river,” Berry says. “So the salmon that come into this river are studied by nations and help to set policy… around the Canadian and American salmon harvest.” This area — Oregon’s only UNESCO biosphere reserve — celebrated its 50th anniversary on July
Oregon’s UNESCO biosphere celebrates 50th anniversary (opens the original)
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In 1976, during the early days of the environmental movement, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated 9,000 acres on the Oregon Coast, at the estuary of the Salmon River, as one of its biosphere regions. This weekend, scores of people are expected to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Oregon’s only UNESCO biosphere region. Although it was designated decades ago, few Oregonians know much about the Cascade Head Biosphere. “The whole idea behind it is an exper
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