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By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Since 2013, only seven humpback whales are known to have become tangled with commercial crabbing gear in Oregon’s coastal waters. The number seems small, but humpbacks are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. So unless Oregon creates a plan to monitor and limit future entanglements, the federal government could move to shut down the state’s

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service The National Science Foundation has selected Oregon State University and the University of Washington to lead a research program focused on increasing resiliency among coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest coastline is at significant risk of earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which stretches nearly 700 miles along the coast from