Starting this Thursday, four winter range closures take effect across the Deschutes National Forest to provide critical habitat for deer and elk,…
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A $20 million landscape resiliency grant program is making Oregon’s landscapes more resistant to the threat of wildfire by treatments done through…
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A team of 22 scientists from the Oregon State University-led Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, is headed to Antarctica for the first…
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 In the depth of winter, a deep layer of snow quiets the High Desert’s forests. But under the surface, a secret world comes to life. A new High…
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The Environmental Center invited the public to help plan for Deschutes County’s energy future. Saturday’s event was the first-ever Local Energy…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. government has taken a step toward approving the expansion of a natural gas pipeline…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Washington banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters on Friday, citing danger to struggling native salmon. Public Lands…
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The Deschutes Land Trust announced Thursday it has established a new 1,099-acre preserve near La Pine and Newberry National Volcanic Monument. The…
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is offering free well water testing in southern Deschutes County as part of a groundwater quality…
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Think Wild, a Bend wildlife rehabilitation hospital, says a tundra swan now in their care was lucky to survive a casualty event that killed many…
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Mt. Bachelor has announced it will start construction next June of a state-of-the-art biomass facility to heat its buildings, saying it will replace…
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday used a short visit to the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt to tell…
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The nation’s largest family ranching cooperative, based in Redmond, announced Thursday it has launched a major initiative called Grazewell to test…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Environmental groups on Thursday hailed a decision by the Biden administration to…
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture recently requested and received approval from the legislative Emergency Board for $550,000 to fund additional…
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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $3 million to an Oregon State University researcher to lead the development of a new, high-energy-density…
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Supporters of the Home Energy Score being considered as a home-sales requirement by the city of Bend say it encourages energy-saving improvements.…
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An Oregon State University study published Friday found that traffic congestion is linked to decreased birthweight for full-term babies born to…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana and its wildlife management agency alleging it…
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On Monday, Nov. 7 from 9-11a.m., the City of Bend’s Mirror Pond Fish Passage Advisory Committee will host a virtual meeting to launch Phase 2 of…
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