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Congressional panel wades into ‘catch share’ debate

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  • Congressional subcommittee called for first public airing before federal lawmakers of the Obama administration
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Oregon company taps California protocol to earn more by logging less

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  • Ecotrust aims to reverse that trend of Industrial logging, tree farming, and clear-cutting altering some of North America’s most prized forests
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Economist network speaks up on carbon pricing

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  • Environmentally concerned economists released a report warning Obama Administration may be working with a theoretical price for carbon that is too low
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Study: US setting cost of carbon perilously low

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  • The US government is hurting its efforts to regulate carbon dioxide emissions by using flawed economic models
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Economists warn against setting price for carbon too low

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  • In its first attempts to regulate carbon emissions, the U.S. government is hindering its own efforts by using flawed economic models
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Whose ocean is this?

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  • Marine issues were the topic at Siuslaw Watershed Council’s Ocean Issues Forum held March 31 at the Florence Events Center
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Putting a price tag on the melting ice caps

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  • Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing, but for the most part climate change remains abstract
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Mapping a vision for their lands

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  • Does a place exist if it isn’t on a map?
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Mapping efforts lure rec anglers

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  • Efforts to accurately map prime fishing grounds along the Oregon coast are now extending from commercial fishing to the recreational side of the equation
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‘A living classroom’ at Seven Oak

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  • Kathryn Quanbeck, program specialist with the Western Regional Office of the USDA, visited as part of a “farm-to-school” tour this week
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Food gets Portland on the Fast Cities list

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  • Fast Company magazine continued its love affair with Portland’s food scene by naming the city to its Fast Cities 2010 list for focus on farm-to-table food
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Portland: farm-fresh food

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  • In February, Portland welcomed a new high-tech tool to bring large-scale, farm-fresh foods to city hospitals, public schools, corporate cafeterias
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Scientists gather to discuss ‘State Of The Salmon’

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  • Hundreds of scientists from all around the Pacific Ocean are headed to Portland this week to discuss salmon hatcheries
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The state of Pacific salmon? Not so wild

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  • It is undeniable that salmon are much less abundant in the Pacific Northwest compared to what the region supported prior to European contact
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Oregon conference discusses protecting wild salmon

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  • Biologist Rich Lincoln worries that the fragile balance of endangered salmon runs are threatened by an outdated hatchery system
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Northwest conference discusses protecting wild salmon

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  • Hundreds of scientists from the Pacific Northwest, Russia and Japan are meeting in Portland this week to discuss how to manage salmon hatcheries
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Scientists in Oregon to discuss salmon safeguards

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  • Hundreds of scientists from the Pacific Northwest, Russia and Japan are meeting to discuss how to manage salmon hatcheries
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Oregon experts discuss protecting wild salmon

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  • Biologist Rich Lincoln worries that the fragile balance of endangered salmon runs are threatened by an outdated hatchery system
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Fishing for answers

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  • Is hatchery fishing a good thing or not?
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The catch share gain that wasn’t

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  • Writer with EDF ties clouds figures