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The Culture

Sue Naumes: A collector of vintage fruit labels

Sue Naumes is a retired grower who helped manage one of the West's largest pear companies for decades. Today she spends her time collecting rare, ... Read more

by Staff reports, Friday, March 26, 2021 8:00 am

Making-a-living

More than the mail: Rural Oregon’s postal service, a lifeline and a lifestyle

DORENA, Ore. — Peggy Cameron drives a little green truck 44 miles a day delivering mail in Dorena, a rural community 45 minutes southwest of ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

Columns

Editor’s note

Nella Mae Parks is a young farmer, wife and mother from Union County. She does a little writing when she’s not busy running her farm, ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

Feature Stories

Conflagration illustrates steps to fighting wildfires

While an extreme example, the Holiday Farm Fire illustrates what steps are required to bring a conflagration under control, from initial attack to final ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

Cover Story

Wildfire cycle anything but natural

Wildfires aren’t the natural enemies of forests, but the fire regime that’s taken hold of many Northwest forestlands is anything but natural. Cycles of fiery ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

Feature Stories

What we need now: Bridges, ladders, imagination

After a devastating year of COVID, of protests, of the election, what I may be the most tired of is hearing “I just can’t understand…” ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

The Culture

Oregon author inspired by state’s rural landscape

A best-selling author puts pieces of rural Oregon into her work. Shea Ernshaw sent her first of many query letters to literary agents in New ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

The Land

Change is coming to Harney Basin Agriculture

Agriculture in Oregon’s Harney Basin faces a situation akin to being chased by an aggressive dog, according to farmer Mark Owens. Irrigators realize it’s going ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

The Land

Keeping it rural

Land conservation projects defend a variety of public values in rural Oregon — everything from habitat and water quality to agriculture and recreation. Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

Feature Stories

Oregon Tech teams up with tribes to save endangered fish

Oregon Institute of Technology is coordinating with the Klamath Tribes to try to save endangered Lost River and shortnose suckers while using energy efficiencies to ... Read more

by Staff reports, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

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