Environment - Page 11

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Twenty years of trying to end decades of clearcuts and neglect of the ridge that serves as a backdrop to Yachats and instead restore and preserve it found fertile ground Wednesday. Yachats non-profit View the Future, along with a big contingent of supporters, made a pitch to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission during

By GRANT STRINGER/Oregon Capital Chronicle The federal government will dole out disaster relief to commercial Chinook salmon fishermen who have weathered a string of poor seasons on the Oregon Coast. But some fishermen say the help won’t be enough to rescue the fast-shrinking industry. Earlier this month, two years after a request by Oregon’s governor, the U.S. Department of

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle By August, residents of Newport were put on mandatory water curtailment due to low stream flows. That same month, the city of Yamhill, 30 miles southwest of Portland, enforced water use restrictions on pools and lawns when Turner Creek, its primary water source, dropped to significantly low levels. The blow of late summer drought

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions likely caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific gray whale population since the 1980s, a new study has found. During each of these die-offs, including one that began in 2019 and is ongoing, the gray whale population was reduced by up to 25 percent over

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle A team of Oregon State University researchers were recently awarded $2.5 million to study the attitudes and feelings coastal residents have about potential offshore wind energy projects. In August, officials from the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management identified two areas off the Oregon coast near Coos Bay and Brookings that they said would

By TRACY LOEW/Salem Statesman Journal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Seattle-based American Seafoods Company and the owners of its fish-processing vessels nearly $1 million for significant violations of the Clean Water Act committed while harvesting and processing fish in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon and Washington coasts. EPA cited the companies for hundreds of violations, including discharging waste

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — Since their start two years ago, a group of Yachats bird-lovers have aided hundreds of migrating species with specially constructed nesting boxes. Now, their success has prompted the Lincoln County Parks system to ask for help too. SWIFTY – the acronym for Swallows in Flight to Yachats – recently issued an end-of-season report on