OREGON — Continent-wide, bird populations are vanishing like water from a drying well.
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My dad saved up enough for his first camera, probably sometime in the early 1970s, and walked the woods behind his parent’s house in what’s now a suburb of Portland. Pine squirrels, herons, various elusive birds: He had a lot of potential subjects, but most of them were very, very camera shy.
The Hood River Tree Committee presents its first “Tree of the Month” in hopes that it will increase resident’s appreciation for some of the special trees we live amongst, said a press release.
A colorful mandala at 10th and Pine and the crosswalk at 12th two blocks away were the focal points of “Streets Alive,” Sunday’s first-time event that brought out throngs of walkers and bikers to 20-square block expanse of the Heights.
Infrastructure work is underway and should be done by August on the 50-lot Lone Pine Village subdivision, creating the last riverfront residential lots in town, one of the developers said. Being installed are streets, water, power, and high-speed internet, said Chris Schanno, of Lone Pine Land and Cattle, a half-owner in the subdivision.
A flood of contributions, dwarfing last year’s effort, has come to the Discovery Center for its second annual donation drive to benefit the Lone Pine Native American fishing village. The collection is still underway through Christmas — items can be taken to the museum, at 5000 Discovery Drive — but the needed items aren’t the typical holiday requests.
For once that smoky smell in downtown Bingen has nothing to do with something being on fire, but everything to do with the delicious smell of barbecue.
Big Tree, a massive ponderosa pine near Trout Lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, has died.
A woman once wrote a letter to the editor with her ideas about how to stop all wildfires in our forest. Her first idea was to construct agriculture water sprinklers in all 745 million acres of our national forests. Her second, to prohibit all campfires and cooking in those same forests.
