Visitors to the Table Rocks and other federal Bureau of Land Management recreation sites in Southern Oregon will have to pack their own trash out this summer as the federal sequester's budget cuts and hiring freezes have reduced recreation staff levels.

Chris Uhtoff had a problem.

Hunters looking to draw tags for limited-entry hunts this fall will look at this year's suite of tag proposals with more than a hint of deja vu.

Rock seems quite solid, doesn't it? Many features, however, such as joints, faults and random fractures act as conduits for root growth, slow percolation of water and weathering far below the earth's surface. Such weathering not only produces soil for plants but some fantastic shapes, such as spheroidal "onion skin" or tombstone boulders.

And then there were three.

Oregon salmon advocates believe they are inching toward developing a federally approved plan in which over-populations of fish-eating cormorants could be killed to reduce their impacts on salmon and steelhead runs.

The Fisher's Ferry boat ramp — not the old Gold Ray Dam site — is the new lower boundary of the upper Rogue River, one of a handful of changes to area sport-fishing regulations this year.

Even though Diamond Lake is now a year-round fishing destination, its faithful anglers will have to spend the fourth Saturday in April somewhere else.

The Rainbow $5,000 trout-fishing tournament at Diamond Lake is celebrating its 16th birthday with a coming-out party that will offer its greatest prizes ever.

The following is a breakdown of the rainbow trout-stocking schedule for water bodies in the upper Rogue River basin this spring and summer.