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Environmental group sues NOAA for missing deadline to list sunflower sea stars as threatened species " Lincoln Chronicle
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (553+ words) By YERETH ROSEN/States News Service An environmental group is suing the Trump administration over its failure to grant Endangered Species Act protections to sunflower sea stars, a keystone Pacific Ocean species that lost 90 percent of its population since 2013 to…...
Oregon Supreme Court will hear class action lawsuit against Pacifi Corp over Echo Mountain and three 2020 wildfires " Lincoln Chronicle
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (514+ words) A long-running Pacifi Corp wildfire lawsuit is heading to Oregon's highest court. The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to review a class-action lawsuit over Pacifi Corp's role in four wildfires " including the Echo Mountain fire in Otis " that burned over…...
DMV office in Lincoln City reopens Tuesday after hiring staff " Lincoln Chronicle
1+ week, 1+ day ago (283+ words) Bi-monthly meeting of the Lincoln County board of commissioners " Register to appear virtually through Zoom at: https: //us02web. zoom. us/webinar/register/WN_N9a4quz5 T16 FGkk TJEHKl A " Constituent input may be submitted online up to noon the day prior to the start of…...
ODFW Commission approves fall salmon seasons and will ask feds for short Alsea River coho fishery " Lincoln Chronicle
1+ week, 2+ day ago (313+ words) By Lincoln County staff The Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission on Friday approved fishing regulations and seasons for fall Chinook and coho on the Oregon coast " and voted to ask the federal government to approve a short coho fishery on the…...
Coyotes are finding Yachats to their liking but ODFW says so far not threatening pets or people " Lincoln Chronicle
1+ week, 3+ day ago (672+ words) YACHATS " Close encounters of the coyote kind have become a common occurrence in Yachats in the last month with stories abounding of the four-legged locals boldly sprinting past beachgoers and strutting down city streets. Yachats officials have received a few…...
Three Pacific Maritime Heritage Center exhibits help celebrate U. S.'s 250th anniversary " Lincoln Chronicle
1+ week, 3+ day ago (250+ words) The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport has several exhibits to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. There's Oregon Voices, which is a traveling exhibit from Oregon Historical Society about Oregon after World War II, an exhibit detailing'the 60 years…...
Want to go fishing? 10 volunteers help ODFW study impact of Oregon's marine reserves " Lincoln Chronicle
3+ week, 2+ day ago (237+ words) This was a fishing trip of a different kind. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife took 10 volunteers out twice this week " Wednesday and Thursday " to catch rockfish inside and outside the Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve as part of a…...
Trump administration's decision to remove equipment from ocean off Oregon coast stuns, dismays OSU scientists " Lincoln Chronicle
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1540+ words) By DANA TIMS/Lincoln Chronicle A decision by the Trump administration to quickly dismantle a complex and massive array of underwater equipment that for 10 years has studied the ocean's health has stunned and dismayed researchers in Newport and Corvallis. Research…...
Oregon Coast CC biology students get a taste of sea life and real-time research during study of Pac Wave project " Lincoln Chronicle
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (1439+ words) By BRIANNA BOWMAN/KLCC News On a cool and still morning, students from Oregon Coast Community College's spring term Principles of Biology class walk past the familiar chorus of sea lions on Newport's bayfront and climbed onto Oregon State University's…...
Siletz tribal members tell community what November's whale harvest meant to them " Lincoln Chronicle
4+ week, 13+ hour ago (189+ words) The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians hosted a community gathering Saturday in Yachats'to speak about the harvesting of the humpback whale that beached itself last November north of Yachats.' The event at the Amanda Gathering Area and was intended as…...