Jayson Jacoby
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Rain, snow put brakes on prescribed burns
Too much rain and snow fell during April, preventing U.S. Forest Service officials from beginning their ambitious plans for prescribed burning on parts of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Eastern → Read More
Reducing roadkill a possible savior for sage grouse
The connection between a dead deer rotting on the roadside, a live raven and a live (or budding) sage grouse is a somewhat circuitous one. → Read More
Wolves kill working dog on Eastern Oregon ranch
Wolves from the Keating pack killed a working dog on a cattle ranch in Eastern Oregon, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed. An ODFW biologist said wolves were → Read More
Ranchers applaud federal efforts to increase meatpacker competition
BAKER CITY, Ore. — Rancher Curtis Martin doesn’t expect a problem that was decades in the making to be solved by a single announcement from the White House, even one → Read More
Idaho Power goes to court to gain access to properties for B2H surveys
Idaho Power Company is asking a judge to order the owners of five Baker County properties to allow the company to survey their land as part of its plan to → Read More
Wildlife managers aim to control bacteria that's killing bighorn lambs
As the helicopter flew over the ridges and canyons of eastern Baker County recently, Brian Ratliff was seeing more bighorn sheep than he expected. → Read More
NE Oregon snowpack surging after storms
A series of storms has boosted the snowpack to above average at measuring sites in northeastern Oregon, marking a turning point in the drought that gripped the region most of → Read More
E. Oregon man fends off surprise bear attack
Noah Beckner barely had time to recognize the animal as a black bear before it was swatting a claw-tipped paw at his head. → Read More
Rescuers find E. Oregon man snowbound in Wallowa Mountains
Crews from Baker and Union counties rescued a Baker County man in the snowbound Wallowa Mountains north of Halfway Monday, Oct. 25, the day after he was stranded by a → Read More
E. Oregon sheriff calls on ODFW to kill all wolves in Lookout Mountain pack
The Baker County, Ore., sheriff is calling on state wildlife managers to cull the Lookout Mountain wolf pack after it killed another calf last week. → Read More
Adult wolf hit, killed by car in Eastern Oregon
An adult wolf from the Cornucopia pack in eastern Baker County was hit and killed by a car on Highway 86 near Richland either late Wednesday night or early Thursday, → Read More
Simplot fertilizer facility under construction in E. Oregon
Construction crews are building a liquid fertilizer storage and distribution facility in Baker City’s industrial park that is slated to open early this spring. → Read More
Former Wallowa-Whitman NF chief possible candidate for top BLM spot
Steve Ellis, former supervisor of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and a former Baker City resident, is a candidate to run the Bureau of Land Management for at least part of → Read More
State: Legislature never intended to limit powers Brown used to order COVID closures
Oregon’s solicitor general argues in a brief to the state Supreme Court that the Legislature did not intend to limit the duration of an emergency declared by the governor. → Read More