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Danielle Baldwin shows off strains of medical marijuana Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, kept at Puffs Smoke Shop in Ashland, Ore., which is seeking a license as a medical marijuana dispensary. The city of Ashland is one of more than a dozen around Oregon that have imposed or are planning to impose a tax on marijuana if voters legalize it in November 2014. Though the measure prohibits anyone but the state from taxing marijuana, the cities hope by enacting a tax before the voters decide, their taxes will be grandfathered in. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
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Oregon cities scramble to tax pot before its legal

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In an undated photo Steve Baksay of Grants Pass, Ore., holds a wild coho salmon caught and released in the lower Rogue River estuary at Gold Beach, Ore. Federal fisheries biologists have identified the free-wheeling marijuana industry in Northern California and southern Oregon as a key threat to the survival of coho in the region. The NOAA Fisheries Service published notice of its final recovery plan for coho in the region on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Medford Mail Tribune,Mark Freeman )
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Biologists identify pot gardens as salmon threat

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows lines of fluttering plastic, known as streamer lines, keeping sea birds from trying to steal bait from hooks being unreeled from a fishing boat. Federal fisheries managers are proposing to expand rules requiring the seabird avoidance measures in force in Alaska waters since 1997 to cover longline sablefish fishermen on the West Coast. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration )
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New fishing rule protects endangered seabird

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FILE - This July 23, 2002 file photo shows salmon fishermen filling the mouth of the Klamath River near Klamath, Calif. A federal judge, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, has denied a request from irrigation suppliers in the Central Valley to stop emergency releases of reservoir water intended to protect Klamath River slamon from effects of the drought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Judge won’t stop water for Klamath salmon

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FILE - In this June 25, 2013, file photo, workers move irrigation pipes from a field in the Westlands Water District near Five Points, Calif. Westlands and another water district have asked a federal judge to stop emergency releases of water from a Northern California reservoir to help salmon in the Klamath Basin survive the drought. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation started releasing the extra water Saturday, Aug. 23. 2014. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka,File)
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Judge asked to cut off extra water for salmon

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Agency reconsidering water for Klamath salmon
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Agency reconsidering water for Klamath salmon

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Group challenges immunity for pesticide sprayers
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Group challenges immunity for pesticide sprayers

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Wildlife refuges phasing out GMO crops, pesticides
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Wildlife refuges phasing out GMO crops, pesticides

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This May 21, 2013 photo provided by the National Park Service shows wildlife biologist Terry Hines standing next to a massive scar where a burl has been cut by poachers from an old growth redwood tree in the Redwood National and State Parks near Klamath, Calif. Poaching has spread to national forests in Northern California and Oregon, prompting the conservation group Oregon Wild to call on the U.S. Forest Service to close old logging roads to protect the trees. The Forest Service says it is investigating. (AP Photo/Redwood National and State Parks, Laura Denn)
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Redwood poaching spreads to national forests

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FILE - In this April, 12, 2010 file photo, thousands of hatchery-raised winter steelhead are released from an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife truck into Carberry Creek outide Ruch, Ore. A state proposal to stop stocking hatchery salmon in a few coastal rivers has not gone over well with some of the anglers who fish those rivers, or some county officials. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is to vote Friday, June 6, 2014 on the Coastal Multi-Species Conservaton and Management Plan. (AP Photo/The Medford Mail Tribune, Bob Pennell)
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Commission voting on plan to limit hatchery salmon

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