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Exploring a remote ‘road’ amid fall colors

I like to hike on roads that are slowly ceasing to be roads. The transition from maintained road…

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Coho fishing season opens on Grande Ronde

ENTERPRISE — For the second consecutive year, anglers will be able to harvest coho salmon in the Grande…

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Sampling the Strawberry Wilderness

Strawberry Mountain isn’t the tallest peak in Eastern Oregon but it looks as though it ought to be.…

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Deer death toll up to 36

The death toll in deer in Baker Valley from a disease spread by midges has risen to 36…

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ODFW commission meets this week to adopt 2021 big game regulations

SALEM — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission looks to adopt the remaining 2022 big game…

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Clearing a path

By JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Sections of several hiking trails in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains were improved this…

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Reduced steelhead bag limit for Oregon’s Snake River

SALEM — Due to low returns, daily bag limits for hatchery summer steelhead have been reduced to one…

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Biologists study climate change’s effects on elk

By DICK MASON The (La Grande) Observer STARKEY — Rocky Mountain elk in Northeastern Oregon may fall prey…

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On the trail: Finding your way through the fog

Hiking through the deep woods on a day when fog is draped across the land, obscuring the tops…

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Bacteria ravages bighorn lambs

By JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com A bacterial infection continues to wreak havoc on lambs in Baker County’s two bighorn…

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