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Fire at Timberline Lodge
Timberline ski area closed after lodge catches fire (OPB, 4/19/2024)
“Built with pride and purpose”: Oregon’s majestic Timberline Lodge (2018) State Library of Oregon
Living with cougars
State trooper shoots, kills cougar in Ashland backyard (Ashland.news, 4/18/2024)
Oregon is cougar country: guidelines for living with cougars (2020) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Oregon cougar management plan (2017) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Alleviating child care deserts
NeighborImpact and COCC open hundreds of new child care slots in Central Oregon (Bend Bulletin, 4/19/2024)
Oregon’s child care deserts (2023) Oregon State University
Financial literacy education requirement
Advocates for New Financial Literacy and Life Skills Classes Worry Department of Education Wants to Torpedo Them (Willamette Week, 4/17/24)
Oregon’s newest diploma requirements, Senate Bill 3 (2023) Oregon Department of Education
DEQ audit
Oregon DEQ under resourced to face enormity of climate change challenges, audit finds (Capital Chronicle, 4/17/24)
Audit of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality recommends better strategic planning (Statesman Journal, 4/17/24)
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality : ongoing strategic planning can help DEQ address obstacles to achieving its goals (2024) Oregon Audits Division
Salmonella and backyard poultry
State: New and expecting parents with chickens should consider infection risks (Lund Report, 4/16/2024)
Salmonella prevention: it’s in your hands (2021) Oregon Department of Agriculture
Don’t kiss the baby chicks (2017) Oregon Health Authority
Tick season in eastern Oregon
Tick Talk: Warmer weather means it’s time for ticks outside (Elkhorn, 4/16/24)
Don’t be a tick target! (2023) Oregon Health Authority
The ticks of Oregon (1937) Oregon State Agricultural College
Killing ravens to protect sage grouse
Federal workers kill ravens, destroy nests in Baker County in effort to protect sage grouse (Baker City Herald, 4/4/2024)
Baker priority area of conservation comprehensive sage-grouse threat reduction plan (2017) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
The beaver state podcast – Episode 130 Crows and Ravens with Dr. Kaeli Swift (2023) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Well water levels
Declining aquifer levels raise alarm among hydrologists, officials (Bend Bulletin, 4/13/2024)
Groundwater regulatory tools (2023) Oregon Water Resources Department
Oregon’s groundwater allocation rulemaking (2024) Oregon Water Resources Department
2021 Oregon groundwater resource concerns assessment (2021) Oregon Water Resources Department
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