Outdoors

Outdoors

• Run the Ditch - 5/18/2012

  The Sterling Mine Ditch gets a lot of use these days.

  
• This is gear you can't do without - 5/18/2012

  Next to speaking at the grade-school career day, the family camping trip is one of the best avenues for parents to embrace the notion that, when it...

• Let's go camping - 5/18/2012

  If the prospects of pitching a tent, cooking over an open fire and navigating Oregon's outdoors are keeping you home, a statewide program — new...

  
• Bear Creek restoration comes into view on 'walk and talk' - 5/18/2012

  A sliver of Bear Creek near downtown Medford is in the midst of a major makeover, and residents can check it out Saturday, pitch in or feel free to...

• Fishing Report: May 18, 2012 - 5/18/2012

  COASTWIDE - A small-craft advisory is posted through tonight, but the ocean is forecast to lay down through the weekend, and fishing should be good.

• Get Out: May 18, 2012 - 5/18/2012

  Table Rocks hikes

• Opinions of Rogue River users sought - 5/14/2012

  A coalition of public landowners is reaching out to the boating and fishing public as they move forward on a plan to manage public-access points...

• Grebes walk on water, but how? - 5/13/2012

  KLAMATH FALLS — A Harvard graduate student has brought a team of researchers to Upper Klamath Lake in Southern Oregon to try to figure out how...

  
• Boat inspections yield results - 5/12/2012

  During last fall's only local police sweep of motorists violating Oregon's mandatory boat inspections for invasive species, more than two dozen...

  
• This story could save your life - 5/11/2012

  Southern Oregon is horse country. We see these animals everywhere: in fields and paddocks and being ridden down roads and trails.

  
• A sentimental 21st-birthday toast - 5/11/2012

  Excuse me, can I have your attention? Everyone? Please?

• Tuesday deadline arrives for hunt tags - 5/11/2012

  Big-game hunters have until Tuesday night to apply for tags for upcoming controlled hunts, and a breakdown of the numbers shows plenty of hunters are...

• Pilot Rock is what's left of an old volcano - 5/11/2012

  Pilot Rock, protruding like a hitchhiker's thumb on the Rogue Valley skyline, is our very own facsimile of Devil's Tower.

• Fishing Report: May 11, 2012 - 5/11/2012

  COASTWIDE - Blustery weather has kept most chinook and bottomfish anglers at bay, but those sneaking out in the mornings have done well of late for...

• Flower show on Jeffrey Pine Loop - 5/11/2012

  Come spring, the flowers start blooming in southwest Oregon's Illinois River Valley, and if you don't get out soon enough, you might not have the...

  
• Get Out: May 11, 2012 - 5/11/2012

  Table Rocks Hikes

• Animal-welfare activists irked at ODFW - 5/7/2012

  Some animal-welfare activists are irate that state wildlife managers are using an Oregon Hunters Association meeting Thursday in Medford as the venue...

• Forest Service to cut some services at old camp areas - 5/7/2012

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• Paddling the Pacific - 5/4/2012

  COOS BAY — Battling waves in a kayak is a delicate balance between safety and thrill — but it's all worth the effort, if you know what...