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Trump administration plans to remove protections on national forest in Oregon
Nurses and former patients outside Samaritan Community Hospital in Lebanon during an Oregon Nurses Association’s rallies to save the local birth centers. (Courtesy photo from Kevin Mealy, Oregon Nurses Association)
MIA MALDONADO Oregon Capital Chronicle
70 listening sessions with staff, clinicians and leaders across the system, and “they directly reflect the ideas shared during
Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon. Brooke Rollins, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture formally announced the proposed
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See FORESTS, page A4
Samaritan birth centers to remain open JEREMY C. RUARK Lincoln County Leader
Samaritan Health Services has announced it will continue offering labor, delivery, and
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emergency surgical services at all five of its hospitals, including in Lincoln City. In a statement, Samaritan said the decision follows more than
Bridge Creek on Tumalo Mountain is a source of drinking water for Bend residents. (Courtesy photo from Sami Godlove / Oregon Wild)
Program provides arts access to rural children JEREMY C. RUARK Lincoln County Leader
As the new school year begins, Sitka’s K-8 Create program is expanding to meet growing demand for high-quality art education in coastal communities. In 2025–2026, the program will reach more than 5,300 students across 20 Title I public schools in Lincoln, Tillamook and Clatsop Counties. New partner schools include Taft 7–12 Middle and High School, Newport Middle and Waldport Middle and High School. The program is part of the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology’s youth program that provides arts and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) learning experiences, widely enhancing educational opportunities for rural and underserved children and expanding access for thousands of students. Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Director of Communications and Outreach Shannon Carlson said the program serves a population of students who often have no access to arts in the schools due to funding or curriculum
The program is part of the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology’s youth program that provides arts and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) learning experiences, widely enhancing educational opportunities for rural and underserved children. (Courtesy photos)
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Oregon’s black rockfish fishery ‘critical survey’ underway
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW) Marine Fisheries Research team is conducting a nearly 10-week at-sea survey to better understand the population status of black, blue, and deacon rockfish—three species that form the foundation of Oregon’s nearshore recreational, charter, and commercial fisheries. This is the second coastwide, fishery-independent study of its kind. The first, conducted August-October 2021,
filled longstanding data gaps and helped avoid dramatic reductions in black rockfish quotas during the most recent stock assessment (2023). While both commercial and recreational quotas of black rockfish decreased by 33 percent this year, ODFW’s lead marine researcher Leif Rasmuson said it could have been worse if not for the 2021 survey data being included in the
stock assessment. “Black rockfish are incredibly important to our coastal identity and economy,” Rasmuson
See ROCKFISH, page A4
ODFW Marine Resources Program’s Alex Copeland monitors scientific fish finders on board the research vessel. (Courtesy photo from the ODFW)
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