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  1. Dams, drought and survival in the Klamath Basin

    A major river restoration project is likely forthcoming, but fish and tribes in the basin face ongoing water and climate troubles A decades-long effort to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River may soon come to fruition. In the Klamath Basi ...

    2 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw

  2. Aging infrastructure impacts salmon migration

    Investment in infrastructure needed for culverts, tunnels essential to Pacific salmon migration As the Biden administration prepares to make the biggest investment in U.S. infrastructure in more than a decade, there’s much discussion about how systems lik ...

    24 Nov 2021 - Ashlee Abrantes

  3. The People’s Market at Rockwood builds community ties through its garden

    How a garden and farmers market aims to connect one of Oregon's most ethnically diverse communities Dan Newth is a member of Street Roots’ MoJo program. MoJo is composed of vendors interested in journaling life on the streets and writing about issues ...

    15 Sep 2021 - Dan Newth

  4. Latino farmworkers press Oregon Legislature for overtime pay, other protections

    Farmers who oppose these bills testify they have laborers’ best interests in mind, but the campesinos tell a different story State Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis (R-Millersburg) knows what’s best for workers on her family’s Linn County farm, she told her fello ...

    5 May 2021 - Tom Henderson

  5. Pandemic presents opportunities for food-waste solutions

    Food recovery systems put in place during the coronavirus shutdowns could stop the cycle of food waste Each day, about one pound of food is wasted for every person in the United States. That’s more than 133 billion pounds each year, equaling between 30% a ...

    6 Jan 2021 - Katherine Haines

  6. Farm labor amid today’s crises: ‘Exhausted, and I want to go home’

    Already trying to manage harvests amid a pandemic, Southern Oregon farmworkers are further set back by wildfires Erica Sanchez spent the end of her first season as a farmworker in Southern Oregon dodging historic blazes, bouncing from hotels and overcrowd ...

    23 Sep 2020 - Chris May

  7. Oregon-raised meat could become more accessible locally

    A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...

    12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard

  8. Fields of fear: Oregon farmworkers lack safety net as pandemic threatens jobs, health

    Farmworkers are considered essential workers, but they don’t necessarily receive essential services such as health care and unemployment benefits Beatriz Tapia fears tomorrow. So do billions of other people in a world caught in the grip of a deadly pandem ...

    11 Apr 2020 - Anna Pedersen and Tom Henderson

  9. Donna Stoney is making wine – and making history

    The longtime case manager and service provider for people with disabilities is Oregon’s first black woman winemaker on record When Donna Stoney debuts her wine label, Stoney Wines, on Sept. 7, she’ll make history. Stoney is the first recorded black woman ...

    30 Aug 2019 - Sarah Hansell

  10. Saving the bees: Blumenauer aims to stop use of common pesticide linked to colony decline

    The Oregon congressman has higher hopes for the Save America’s Pollinators Act this time around Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) announced plans to reintroduce the Save America’s Pollinators Act this morning during a press conference at Northeast Po ...

    21 Feb 2019 - Emily Green

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