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For decades China has taken America's recycled paper, plastics, electronics and other materials and turned them into finished goods for sale in the U.S. Changing times in China, however, are disrupting the flow, creating a bottleneck that reaches all the way back to curbs in Jackson County. China is cracking down on what its recycling plants accept, shutting some down, improving its processing and banning contaminants such as glass. As a result, what goes in those handy-dandy, red-topped recycli
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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When it was built in 1916, the Rogue Elk Hotel was a first-class destination for visitors to Southern Oregon, flanking the mouth of Elk Creek and the Rogue River with luxurious accommodations and top-notch hospitality. Financial woes in the latter half of the century found the hotel in a state of disrepair when Maggie Groves and David Kinyon purchased the inn in 2005 with plans for a full restoration. Designed by Medford architect Charles Power, the inn was constructed by Canadian artist W.G. "W
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A record-setting 1,233 films were submitted to the Ashland Independent Film Festival for the 15th festival, which will run April 7-11, an increase of 170 films over 2014. “The Ashland Independent Film Festival is no longer a hidden gem,” said Richard Herskowitz, the festival’s director of programming. “Filmmakers want their work screened here because they know the festival attracts enthusiastic, intelligent audiences who love film, and who embrace filmmaking with an i
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In 1959, when I was a 12-year-old kid, I rode along with my grandfather one day to see what he did in his job as an electric-meter checker. One of our stops was at a nudist camp near Rogue River. It was the off season and vacant at the time, but nonetheless I got a lot of ribbing about going to a nudist camp. I cannot locate the site of this camp. Does anyone know where it was? — S.A., Rogue River In our quest for the naked truth, we at SYA headquarters — where clothes are not option
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]   Table Rocks guided hikes The Nature Conservancy and BLM sponsor free hikes during weekends in April and May. The hikes are generally limited to 20 people who preregister for the treks. Hikers meet at the Upper or Lower Table Rock trailheads for a moderate-grade hike of up to 4.5 miles round-trip that takes 3 to 5 hours. To register, go online at  http://TableRockHikes2017.eventbrite.com or call BL
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OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE:  The ocean will start the weekend off a little dicey and get progressively worse. Today's forecast calls for 10-knot winds and 6-foot swells, which is doable for many ocean anglers. Saturday will bring winds up to 20 knots and 8-foot swells, followed Sunday by 35-knot winds and 8-foot swells and 6-foot wind waves.  Very good to excellent lingcod and black rockfish catches have occurred recently out of Brookings when the weather has allowed. Black and blue rockf
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While cutting downed cottonwood trees for firewood in 1981, Tom Kalin’s chain saw bit into something hard enough to throw off sparks. Usually that’s an indication of a rock, nail or screw embedded in the wood. “So I went to the other side and we quartered it,” said Kerry Fritz, Kalin’s uncle. The chain saw they were using had a 24-inch bar, and they couldn’t cut all the way through the base of the fat old tree, which was about 30 inches in diameter. Inst
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GRANTS PASS — Carl Cole looks down at this cache of 2-year-olds in what amounts to a watery playpen in Greens Creek and can't help but feel a little paternal. Cole and his fellow Middle Rogue Steelheaders have been babysitting these 2,400 hatchery winter steelhead smolts in a makeshift acclimation pond just 20 yards from the where the creek pours into the Rogue River, doing all the sitter's chores short of diaper-changing. They feed them, check on them and protect them for two weeks
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Where Dead Indian Memorial Road finally straightens out just before the turn onto Hyatt-Prairie Road, the vast expanse of green visible for the past six years along the upper shore of Howard Prairie Lake is now blue. "For the past several years, it's been a meadow," Jackson County Parks Manager Steve Lambert says. "Now the goose-nesting platforms are in water. "That's your first 'wow' factor," he says. And many more wows await trout-lovers who head to Howard Prairie this weekend for what histori
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Wolves are the perfect animal to help reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease among elk, deer and moose, wolf advocates told the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission last Friday during the board’s meeting in Helena. “And it doesn’t cost us anything,” said Marc Cooke, president of Wolves of the Rockies. Cooke’s comment was later endorsed by former Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Gary Wolfe, who was once the program leader for the CWD Alliance, which tracks a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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State fish biologists are trying to take eight-ninths of salmon poachers’ tricks away from them by ratcheting down on hook rules at the Rogue River’s Hatchery Hole during the spring chinook salmon-fishing season. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed allowing just one single-point hook while angling along the side of Cole Rivers Hatchery instead of the current rule allowing up to three treble hooks, which sport three points each. It’s the latest anti-snagging regulation propose
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Federal land managers plan to open the Hyatt Lake Recreation Area's campground complex at the High Cascades lake May 26, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Bureau of Land Management facilities off Highway 66 near the Greensprings have been unlocked and usable since mid-April, and the boat launch is usable, but bathroom and other facilities are not up and running. BLM often waits until just before the start of the unofficial camping season to open this popular facility. "It's not terribly lat
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State wildlife biologists seeking to reverse declines in Oregon hunter numbers have launched a contest to encourage hunters to pass on their passions — and possibly win from a passel of more than $1,000 dollars in prizes for doing it. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's new Take a Friend Hunting contest creates quite a large carrot to entice veteran hunters to mentor a new or lapsed adult hunter this year. Those who do, and can prove it, will be in line to register for a dra
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To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected] Archery shoot Saturday-Sunday, April 22-23: Terry Phillips Memorial modified field archery shoot, and a separate statewide 4-H archery shoot sponsored by Sharp Shooters from Roseburg, will be held at Beekman Ridge Archery Range near Butte Falls. Shoot for one day or two, $20 for one day or $35 for two. 4-H shooters shoot for free. Family rates are offered, and kids younger than 12 shoot for free. Marked yarda
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Forecasts call for winds starting at about 20 knots and ratcheting up to 30 knots today, with gale warnings in effect through this evening. Wind waves will rise to 5 feet today. Saturday calls for 15 knots around Brookings on Saturday with wind waves up to 8 feet and swells up to 6 feet. Sunday calls for winds of about 10 knots Sunday and a mixed swell of up to 4 feet. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottom fishers is five fish. Anglers are allowed to fish
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE:  A small-craft advisory that began Thursday won't end until tonight amid 20-knot winds and 6-foot swells. Saturday's ocean forecast calls for winds up to 15 knots and 4-foot swells, followed Sunday by winds up to 15 knots with 5-foot swells. Very good to excellent lingcod and black rockfish catches have occurred recently out of Brookings when the weather has allowed. Black and blue rockfish catches have been good to very good.  Rockfish anglers have new bag lim
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To have an event listed in Get Out!, email the information to [email protected]   Herbert Stone Nursery Tour Saturday, April 8: Tour the U.S. Forest Service nursery with BLM botanist and Native Plant Society member Sasha Joachims, and nursery horticulturalist Jason McNeil. A rare opportunity to see the stunning blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia grandiflora) in full bloom. The nursery is at 2606 Old Stage Road, Central Point. Meet at the Hanley Road nursery entrance gate at 10 a.m. For more
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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The sharp teeth of the cross-cut saw carve like a file through the thick fir log to the rhythm of Jason Middleton and Aaron Babcock pushing and pulling this antique tool of the backwoods. "We'd already be through it but we hit a knot," Babcock says. But the knot proves to be no match for the seasoned saw, and the split log sloughs into the Middle Fork Trail, where Gabe Howe joins the men in hauling the log away to make way on the trail. That's one down, 14,999 to go. Babcock, Howe and other memb
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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For years I'd passed the Buck. Or more accurately, I'd driven past the Buck Prairie Sno-Park off Dead Indian Memorial Highway. Thanks to a persistent friend, Niel Barrett, I now know what I've been missing. The main Buck Prairie Sno-Park provides access to 16 miles of cross-country ski trails. Because it's only 13 miles from Ashland, it bustles with Rogue Valley Nordic skiers. It's a longer drive from Klamath Falls, about 50 miles. "You've got to come," insisted Barrett, president of the Klamath