Thursday, March 11, 2010
Click here for RSS feedKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) -- Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he expects to sign a drought declaration for the Klamath Basin next week, but it will not be enough to keep farmers from hard times. Kulongoski traveled to Klamath Falls to hear from federal biologists still working on how m ...
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- About 1,300 farmers in a Klamath Basin irrigation project are waiting to hear whether drought conditions will leave enough water to plant crops this year without help from a landmark agreement designed to share scarce water between fish and farms. Gov. Ted Kul ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010 4:09 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon environmental authorities have taken their first look at the cost of restoring streamside vegetation in the Willamette Valley that has been harmed by farming, forestry and urban development. The picture is not good. A report issued Thursday by the Oregon ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010 1:09 PM
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says he is helping to pave the way for a suspension of federal species protections on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in hopes that Republicans will gain control of Congress this year. A bill being introduced by Nunes, titled the California Water Reliability A ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010 9:08 AM
El Niño's been paying California plenty of attention of late, and that affection shows no signs of waning anytime soon. The tropical weather pattern has planted many a wet kiss on the Central Valley as persistent showers have helped the drought-ridden state keep up with normal precipitati ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010 9:08 AM
Getting enough water to thirsty crops this summer could be a challenge for some Western farmers based on the latest snowpack readings. Snowpack, or the snow-water equivalent as its also known, is barely half the long-term average in some basins, according to data gathered March 1 by elect ...
Saturday, March 06, 2010 9:08 AM
BEIJING (AP) -- Workers have begun tapping into underground water reserves to aid the nearly 6 million people who have been affected by the worst drought to hit China's southern province of Yunnan in 60 years, a local official said on Wednesday. Severe water shortages for crops and livestock ...
Friday, March 05, 2010 7:39 AM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- The first year under a landmark agreement to share water between fish and farms in the Klamath Basin is shaping up as a tough one. Gov. Ted Kulongoski called together the heads of state agencies in Salem Tuesday to see what they could offer farmers if federal irr ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:28 PM
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Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:09 PM
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Gov. Chris Gregoire said Monday she has asked the Legislature to set aside $4.1 million for drought-relief projects that may be needed to counter below-average mountain snowpack this winter. Much of Washington relies on mountain snowpack to feed rivers a ...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:09 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- More water will be allocated to California's drought-stricken farms and cities this year, thanks to improved rain and snow levels, federal and state regulators said Friday. Water officials said they were hopeful about the situation but cautioned that California was not ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:29 PM
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) -- Anti-whaling activists on Friday cut short what they called their "most successful" Antarctic campaign against Japanese whalers, citing an engine problem on one of their ships. There are two weeks left in the three-month whaling season, during which J ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:49 AM
Washington state produces 20 million pounds of farmed salmon every year. Idaho is the No. 1 producer of trout in the U.S. The California aquaculture industry racks up an annual farm gate value of $80 million to $100 million. But in Oregon, aquaculture is represented by a handful of small ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:09 PM
SALEM -- High-level state and federal officials joined tribal, agricultural, fisheries and environmental leaders in Oregon's Capitol last week in a show of support for two Klamath Basin agreements five years in the making. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:09 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Despite a historic collapse in the number of salmon returning to the Central Valley last year, federal fisheries regulators are predicting a better 2010. The Pacific Fishery Management Council forecasts that 245,000 chinook, or king, salmon will return to the Sacramento ...
Friday, February 26, 2010 4:09 PM
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Communities along rivers in the Midwest are bracing for would could be a whopper of a spring flood season, with the National Weather Service warning of a "high probability" of significant flooding along parts of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributar ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:29 AM
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The Gallatin Local Water Quality District board will hold a public hearing and final vote on Monday on whether to expand the county's water quality district. The board is considering expanding the district's boundary by 580 square miles to the north, west and s ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:08 AM
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's prime minister on Friday set a November deadline for Japan to stop its research whaling program that kills hundreds of whales a year in Antarctic waters, or else face international legal action. Australia, a staunch anti-whaling nation, has long threatened inter ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:48 AM
DALLAS (AP) -- Drought conditions are officially gone in Texas, ending a brutally dry period that forced millions of residents to limit water use, evaporated waterways and shriveled up crops. The federal drought map released this week showed no drought conditions in Texas for the first ti ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:48 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A dozen lawmakers from California and Oregon are calling on Sen. Dianne Feinstein to withdraw her proposal to divert more water from the Delta for farming. The group of Democratic lawmakers say in a letter released Thursday that Feinstein's proposal would push salm ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:28 AM
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A century-old fight over water from Oregon's Klamath Basin ended Thursday with signed agreements that assure farmers water and power to keep their crops green, and lay out the removal of dams that have blocked salmon from hundreds of miles of spawning grounds. ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010 12:48 AM
CICERO, Ill. (AP) -- Armed with sprawling fishing nets and boats equipped with electric prods, state and federal fisheries biologists began a "search-and-destroy" mission in Chicago-area waterways Wednesday aimed at rooting out the dreaded Asian carp. The operation got under ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:49 AM
SYDNEY (AP) -- A group of conservationists threw bottles of butyric acid at Japanese whalers and blasted their ship with paint balls, while the Japanese fired water cannons in their latest Antarctic Ocean clash, both sides said Thursday. No one was injured in Wednesday's confrontation, the m ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:49 AM
A bill aimed at clarifying the use of wells for watering dairy cattle died when the Washington state Senate failed to act on it before the Feb. 16 deadline. Senate Bill 6803 is unlikely to be considered again during this legislative session. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Phil Rockefell ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:09 AM
Burt Hamner has a simple idea: Tap the nearest running water -- say, an irrigation canal or a river -- to generate electricity. That electricity, he figures, could be used on-site to operate irrigation pumps or tools. Excess electricity could be sold onto the commercial grid. Hamner, ...
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