Date: 04/27/2015 09:14 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/256
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
BEND, Ore. (AP) – A new lone wolf has been tracked into Central Oregon. The Bend Bulletin reports the wolf’s GPS tracking collar indicates the wolf left the Imnaha Pack in Northeast Oregon weeks ago. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the young male gray wolf wandered into Washington before returning to Oregon and going into the Mount Hood National Forest.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The BLM has released a draft plan that includes five approaches to managing its 2.5 million acres of public forests in western Oregon. The plan is crucial to counties, which are dependent on logging revenues from those forests. In recent decades logging levels have dropped, leaving the counties with smaller revenues to fund basic services.
WALTON, Ore. (AP) – Transportation officials are trying to minimize the danger on a less than 5-mile stretch of highway near Walton that’s seen almost 100 crashes from 2009 to July 2014. The Register-Guard reports the curvy stretch of Highway 126 about 20 miles east of Eugene is getting guardrails, reflectors and rumble strips in a project expected to be finished by September 30.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Memphis guard Mike Conley will not play tonight in Game 4 of the Grizzlies’ playoff series with the Portland Trail Blazers because of a facial injury. Conley left Saturday night’s Game 3 in the third quarter after he appeared to be caught inadvertently by Portland guard CJ McCollum’s elbow while going after the ball. Memphis has a 3-0 series lead over Portland.
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