A cooperative effort that involved more than 50 people from Rogue Valley and Klamath Basin outdoor groups worked together recently to upgrade trails in the Fourmile Lake area.
Enjoy a sunset, learn about bats and bees, and take along your dog on free hikes being offered by the Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Recology, Ashland’s contracted waste and recycling collection service, has announced a change in curbside recycling rules effective Tuesday, July 1, according to a post on its website.
Four finalists have been selected for the 2025 tree of the year distinction in an annual contest held by the city of Ashland Tree Management Advisory Committee, according to a release from the city. The city will continue to collect votes through an online portal for the public’s favorite foliage until Thursday, July 31.
Crater Lake National Park’s superintendent, Kevin Heatley, resigned from overseeing the park, citing cuts to the park’s staff. Since January, Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month. “Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday.
The Bear Gulch Preserve, an ecologically significant 142-acre complex of forests, grasslands, canyons and creeks near the Oregon-California border, has been purchased by the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy (SOLC).
“I still find there are people here,” he said, referring to Southern Oregon and far Northern California, “who don’t there is a national monument here, so it seemed important to build public awareness, especially at this time.”
As “Monumental Beauty” reminds us, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, from Pilot Rock and Grizzly Peak to lesser known areas, includes more than 200 species of birds, at least 120 species of butterflies and a rare combination of trees and wildflowers from multiple ecosystems.
The Oregon Senate will soon take up House Bill 3532, which would have the Oregon Geographic Names Board make a list of places with offensive geographic names within three years of the bill’s passage and determine new names in consultation with local governments and tribes.
The OHA has lifted its recreational advisory for Emigrant Lake — but the public should remain cautious with all bodies of water throughout the summer, said Dr. David Farrer, a public health toxicologist with the OHA.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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