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Historic cabin survives … again
Peavy Cabin is a survivor. Over the 87 years the log structure has stood beside the North Fork ...
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Forest Service ends ban on logging large trees
A federal official has decided to cancel a rule that has banned the cutting of large live trees ...
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County residents urged to sign up for free emergency alerts
Dennis Bachman and Jason Yencopal got a surprise on Oct. 27 after using Baker County’s emergency alert system ...
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Bentz to replace Walden in Congress
Republican Cliff Bentz of Ontario won by a wide margin in the race for the open congressional seat ...
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Project Planned To Protect City Water
The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is planning its largest project in about 20 years to reduce the risk of ...
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Burning planned this fall in forest
The “window” has opened for lighting prescribed fires on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, but forest officials want to ...
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Feds allocate money for forest work
The long-term effort to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires on federal forests in the northern Blue Mountains ...
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‘It was devastating’: Baker firefighters recount time battling westside blazes
If the sign hadn’t survived, B.J. Lynch wouldn’t have known the pile of ashes was once a church. ...
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Bracing For Blazes
Gayle Combs can see the danger simply by looking out her windows. Trees. Towering ponderosa pines, some of ...
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Crews douse wildfires
A late-season lightning storm sparked two wildfires southeast of Baker City on Friday, but crews from multiple agencies ...