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Should This Ugly Rock-Sucker Be Saved?

6:40 am in animals, endangered species list, oregon, Travel & Nature, washington by TreeHugger

Rock Sucking Lamprey mouth photo Photo USFWS via flickr and Creative Commons license. Nearly everybody knows about Pacific salmon and the billions of dollars and massive human effort that has gone in to pushing the species back from extinction. But what about the not-too-pretty, rock-sucking Pacific lamprey with its zero economic value? It's population numbers have gone from an estimated 1 million in the 1970s to 200,0...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Portland, Oregon Becomes Latest City to Ban the Plastic Bag

12:58 pm in Business & Politics, oregon, plastic, waste by TreeHugger

portland plastic bag ban photo Photo: Zainub, Flickr, CC BY-SA Oregon's largest city has just joined a growing list of municipalities that are fed up with plastic bags -- It has just adopted an ordinance that will ban plastic bags from major grocery stores, as well as some big box retailers. Even better, the ban is slated to go into effect in a mere matter of months ......Read the full story on TreeHugger

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California Vineyards Face Massive Climate Crunch By 2040 – Up To 50% Loss of Premium Growing Land

12:45 pm in california, Food & Health, global climate change, global warming effects, oregon, washington, wine by TreeHugger

napa vineyard photo photo: Naotake Murayam/Creative Commons Will this get more people to care about climate? Fingers crossed. New research published in Environmental Research Letters shows that climate change may shrink the amount of prime wine growing land in California by 50% in just 30 years. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oregon Legislators Vote To Protect Both Wolves & Livestock

11:41 am in agriculture, conservation, endangered species, oregon, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

wolf photo photo: Stuart Seeger/Creative Commons The Oregon legislature has pass a bill that will establish a program under which wolves are protected and livestock owners whose cattle are killed by wolves will be compensated. A deadlock over the law was cleared after three days of closed door meetings between the governor's office, conservationists and ranchers. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sweet Skins Organic Apparel on Sale This Month Only

8:26 am in accessories, clothing, Fashion & Beauty, oregon by TreeHugger

sweet skins dresses photo Summer dresses by Sweet Skins. Photo: Sweet Skins To celebrate summer style Oregon-based organic fashion label Sweet Skins is offering up a deal for sale-hungry shoppers. If you've been eying their Rasberry Scoop Tank Dress or their Slate Blue Spring Day Dress, now's your chance to get it on discount, but you only have a few days to scoop up this sweet deal. Read on:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Portland Drains 8 Million Gallon Reservoir After Man Is Caught Peeing In It

11:21 pm in Business & Politics, conservation, oregon, united states by TreeHugger

The Mt. Tabor Reservoir Number 1...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Keen On Home Grown U.S. Footwear Production

7:07 am in footwear, oregon, outdoors, sports gear, united states by TreeHugger

keen portland boot photo Photo Credit: Keen Footwear Technical footwear manufacturing in the USA? It's hard to think it could fly these days. But Keen, a company with a eye towards reducing the environmental impact of the line of footwear and bags, have done just that. In fact the first steps were deemed successful enough to start work on developing a second production line. As of October last year Keen began assembling boots at their new Portland, Oregon, factory. "Using the streamlined direct-inject manufacturing process that provides efficiency in material and energy usage, Keen is able to create classic ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sea Lions to Be Killed For Eating Endangered Fish

10:22 pm in endangered species, oregon, Travel & Nature, washington by TreeHugger

california sea lion photo Photo: Mike Baird / cc For a group of California sea lions that have found a virtual buffet of endangered salmon at the base of the Bonneville Dam, between Oregon and Washington, the feeding frenzy will soon be coming to an end -- violently. Late last week, officials from the NOAA's Fisheries Service authorized officials to rid the Columbia River of the opportunistic sea lions after more humane methods, like firecrackers and rubber bullets, failed to deter them....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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