Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
WASHINGTON — Investigators have confirmed that a federal water agency misspent $32 million in funds meant to protect fish and wildlife in the Klamath Basin, a finding that Obama-era officials attempted to sideline after whistleblowers first alerted them to it. According to a report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, sent to President Donald Trump and obtained this week by McClatchy, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for eight years effectively handed the money to a Klamath water projec
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners will hold its own public hearing on the proposed expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument after an earlier meeting called by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., attracted mostly expansion supporters. The commissioners' hearing is at 6 p.m. Thursday in the North Medford High School Commons, 1900 Keene Way Drive, Medford. Merkley and fellow Democratic Senator Ron Wyden have proposed doubling the size of the 66,000-acre monument east of Ashland, whic
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
As many as 30 agricultural chemicals were released into the air and soil during a three-alarm warehouse fire in northwest Medford Friday, though only one was confirmed to have spilled into local waterways, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said. Aquashade, a blue dye that prevents algae growth in ponds by blocking sunlight, was observed in a ditch along Sage Road between Mason Way and Ehrman Way, as well as in a catch basin near Ehrman Way that leads to Elk Creek, DEQ
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Forecasts call for 10-knot winds and 5-foot wind waves outside of Brookings today, followed Saturday by winds up to 15 knots and 8-foot wind waves. Sunday looks pretty hairy with 25-knot winds and 8-foot wind waves. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers drops Sunday from five fish to four fish, and cabezon are back in the mix beginning Sunday. However, the cabezon limit is one per day and that counts against the four-fish aggregate limit. Rockfish i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Even as Ashland Mayor John Stromberg prepares to attend a White House Roundtable next week on using fire to fight fire through the nationally recognized Ashland Forest Resiliency Partnership, controlled burns are underway throughout the Southern Oregon region. The smoke in the hillsides is evident, but underneath and less evident are firefighters from around the country and world learning more about best practices in setting fires to enhance the long-term health of forests and prevent wildfires
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Downtown Medford supporters have revived an effort to spark revitalization of the Main Street area but hope the city can come up with better solutions for homeless issues that have plagued business owners and their customers. “We’re having trouble attracting businesses because of issues like homelessness and parking,” said Lindsay Berryman, a former mayor. Berryman said the city is working on solutions to the homeless issue that could be promising, including possibly having homeless people livin
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A timber-industry group has joined the growing list of entities asking the federal courts to invalidate last fall's near-doubling of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The American Forest Resource Council filed suit Friday in federal court claiming President Barack Obama illegally used the Antiquities Act to add thousands of acres of O&C Act lands in the monument expansion, contradicting a 1940 Department of the Interior legal opinion stating O&C lands can't be pulled from production. The l
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
PHOENIX — Eden Thrash got rid of her blow-dryer as part of an energy-saving challenge by her science class at Armadillo Technical Institute to combat climate change. “I didn’t really think of it,” Thrash, a junior at the school, said of the carbon impact that energy use has on the atmosphere. She said she now hangs her head out the window or uses towels to dry her long hair. Jesse Stonewood, science teacher at the charter school, secured a $3,000 grant from the Corval
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
STEAMBOAT — A campaign to protect nearly 100,000 acres of the North Umpqua River Basin for wild steelhead and name it after one of the fish's most ardent and iconic defenders is gathering traction in Congress. A proposed bill that would create the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area on federal land east of Roseburg is heading to the U.S. Senate floor after some amendments to the original bill. In earlier versions of the legislation, the management area was called a san
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A Medford man with a criminal history spanning close to three decades faces charges after a midday police chase that involved a crash in east Medford. Robert David Hutsell, 47, is set to appear in Jackson County Circuit Court Thursday following a police pursuit that began when a Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement task force detective witnessed an alleged drug deal in south Medford late Wednesday morning. The chase led police along Interstate 5 and through Medford. A MADGE detective witnessed
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
TRAIL — April Andujar is looking back for the future of the shores along Elk Creek, and she has $60 worth of oak seedlings to make it happen. Those 60 little oaks will be scattered across five acres Saturday to see what sticks. "It's kind of like nature," says Andujar, a natural resource specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "You throw out a whole bunch and see what survives." If Andujar's low-rent plan works out, those who walk this reclaimed pasture 100 years from now w
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
ASHLAND — If first impressions count, Irvine & Roberts Vineyards up Emigrant Creek Road is way ahead of the game. High on a hillside, peering over a valley carved out by Emigrant Creek with Grizzly Peak hovering to the north and Cascade foothills to the south, Irvine & Roberts Vineyards is an instant getaway from the Rogue Valley. Five minutes from the freeway, visitors can escape the scorching summer heat and see the region from a totally new perspective. The start-up vineyard that earne
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley on Wednesday pressed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to schedule a meeting in Jackson County about a controversial natural gas pipeline proposal. FERC scheduled public meetings in Coos, Klamath and Douglas counties, but none in Jackson County — where hundreds of opponents have attended past meetings about the 232-mile proposed pipeline through southwest Oregon. The pipeline would extend to a proposed export facility north of Coos Bay. Oregon'
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Birders, who normally like to run up their bird-sighting lists, are being schooled by the Klamath Bird Observatory of Ashland to go a big step beyond the hobby level — becoming passionate protectors of the environment, joining a global "ebird" network (using an app in real time) and contributing to the hard science that enables protection of refuges such as the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. That’s at the heart of the Klamath Bird Observatory’s growing mission and will
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Western monarch butterflies migrating between the Southern Oregon coast and the South Cascades will soon get fresh patches of strategically placed milkweed and other nectar-bearing plants to create needed habitat on this leg of their storied journey through here. A group of public and private entities, led by the Ashland-based Lomakatsi Restoration Project, have landed a $193,000 foundation grant to restore and enhance 300 acres of western monarch habitat stretched across six sites along key mig
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
A temporary steel bridge once used to access forestland isolated by the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 is now creating access to forestland near Applegate Lake. A 220-foot structure known as a Bailey Bridge, invented for Allied armies during the invasion of Germany in World War II, has replaced, for now, the old Middle Fork Applegate Bridge on Forest Service Road 1040. The 140-foot timber bridge that crossed the Middle Fork of the Applegate River was closed April 26 after inspectors discovere
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Two generations of Rogue Valley school kids have had the chance to get an up-close introduction to the Rogue Valley's signature mesas through guided hikes on field trips to the Table Rocks. The Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy will celebrate their 30-year partnership in leading these hikes by holding a public birthday party for themselves and the community Saturday at Lower Table Rock. Since this partnership was formed in 1986, 71,689 students have joined guides on Upper
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-29
Services for former sheriff and Jackson County Commissioner C.W. Smith, who died June 10 at age 71 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, are planned for Monday, July 2. A funeral Mass will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Shepherd of the Valley Catholic Church, 600 Beebe Road, Central Point, followed by an honor guard ceremony at 1 p.m. at Eagle Point National Cemetery, 2763 Riley Road, Eagle Point. A remembrance is planned afterward at Eagle Creek Estate, 1404 Brownsboro-Eagle Point Highway, Eagle P
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-12
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2018 season officially opens Friday, Feb. 23, with "Othello," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Destiny of Desire" in the Angus Bowmer Theatre and the final part of William Shakespeare's history tetralogy, "Henry V," in the Thomas Theatre. Along with this weekend's opening performances, the full 2018 playbill includes Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Oklahoma!" and "Snow in Midsummer" in the Bowmer; "Manahatta" and "The Way the Mountain Moved" in the intimate Thomas
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-07-12
“Himself and Nora” is a flawless performance of a clever, literary play about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, about their lustful, tempestuous, lifelong love. Written by Jonathan Brielle and directed by Daniel Sessions Stephens, the Rogue Valley premiere of “Himself and Nora” opened last week at Collaborative Theatre Project in the Medford Center. The play opens and closes with Joyce’s death in 1941. He lies cold on a bier, prayed over by a black-cassocked pries