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, ...
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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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…” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...