PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will use the best scientific data to revise a 2008 Bush administration recovery plan for the northern spotted owl.

President Barack Obama speaks briefly on Afghanistan

Salazar task force finds big obstacles remain to logging in Western Oregon

Task force finds obstacles remain to Ore. logging

Nuclear commission tours contaminated Hanford site; tribes say waste can’t be stored there

Federal agency approves $3 billion gas pipeline running from Wyoming to Oregon

$3B gas pipeline from Wyo. to. Ore. gets feds’ OK

Group seeks endangered species protection for bumblebee native to Oregon and California

Group seeks endangered listing for bumblebee

Idaho geothermal company closer to getting $102M federal loan to help build Oregon power plant

Idaho geothermal company closer to $102M loan

Judge rules Forest Service failed to adequately protect Oregon steelhead streams from grazing

Judge: Cattle cannot muddy Ore. steelhead streams

Oregon buys 43,000 acres of young pines, creating 1st new state forest since 1948

Ore. creating first new state forest since 1948

Obama administration extends moratorium another year in roadless areas of national forests

Obama administration extends roadless moratorium

Research shows simple things can help cure jet lag: Melatonin, sunlight, coffee (and sleep)

Simple jet lag cures: Melatonin, sunlight, coffee

Feds’ plan to protect endangered wild salmon in Columbia Basin says no major changes needed

Feds: No major changes for Columbia Basin salmon

EPA to limit pesticides near salmon streams after industry refuses voluntary steps

EPA will limit pesticides near salmon streams

Environmentalists ask court for delay in Arctic Ocean drilling but Shell says time is now

Shell to court: Ready to drill Arctic Ocean

Arguments over oil drilling in Arctic Ocean set for federal appeals court in Oregon

Arctic oil drilling arguments due in federal court

Experts from 3 countries meeting in Ore. to discuss protecting wild salmon from hatchery fish

Scientists in Oregon to discuss salmon safeguards

Greenpeace criticizes Facebook’s new data center despite high energy efficiency

Greenpeace not LOL over Facebook footprint

Scientists’ DNA testing shows Japanese whale meat illegally surfacing at sushi bars elsewhere

Oregon scientists’ DNA testing of whale meat offers evidence of illegal trade from Japan

Federal gov’t asks court to stop spill at Snake River dams, allow barging of salmon downstream

Feds want to barge salmon past Snake River dams

Warmer winters linked to spread of fungal tree-stunting disease that hurts timber industry

Climate seems to make tree-stunting disease worse

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

NOAA: Global warming contributes to threatened species listing of Pacific smelt

Pacific smelt listed as threatened; impact unclear

Better salmon season expected off West Coast this year, including reopening of Calif. fishery

Stage is set for better West Coast salmon season

Council to recommend salmon rules for Calif. coast; more fishing expected for Oregon, Wash.

Council eyes Calif., Oregon, Wash. salmon changes

Wildlife officials haze, kill sea lions feasting on endangered salmon in Pacific Northwest

Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon

Organic farmers seek to bar genetically modified beets, source of about half of US sugar crop

Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets

Agreements to remove dams ends battle over Oregon’s Klamath Basin water; farmers and fish win

Oregon’s Klamath Basin deal helps farmers and fish

Feds warn Hanford nuclear cleanup would threaten Columbia River with radioactive contaminants

Analysis warns Hanford cleanup would take decades

Oregon senators seek to turn Rajneeshee land into wilderness area

Bill would protect Rajneeshee land as wilderness

Study: Asian ozone pushing up background levels of smog component in western United States

Study links Asia to smog component in Western US

Giant trellises will be grown on 18-story federal office building in Portland, Ore.

Portland high-rise to get 250-foot-tall trellises

Fish and Wildlife proposes another reversal of Bush policy, this time on bull trout habitat

Feds propose expanding Bush’s bull trout habitat

Groups ask federal authorities to regulate commercial bumblebees to control disease

Groups seek regulation of bumblebee shipments

Sea lions that helped make SF Bay’s Pier 39 famous may be in Oregon, where food is better

Where did SF Bay’s sea lions go? Try Oregon Coast

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