Jeff Barnard

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In this April 25, 2013 photo, Rough & Ready Lumber Co. co-owner Jennifer Phillippi, center, talks to workers Ron Hults, right, and Larry Matson, left, at the sawmill in O'Brien, Ore. The mill is closing after Phillippi's family has owned it for 70 years.Twenty years after environmental protections forced steep cutbacks in national forest logging, timber country is still struggling to find new jobs and sources of government revenue. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Energy and Environment

Oregon timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jeff Barnard · May 18, 2013 4:00 am

Ore. lawmakers consider gold dredging moratorium

Ore. lawmakers consider gold dredging moratorium

Jeff Barnard · April 18, 2013 11:35 pm

This Aug. 4, 1999 file photo shows a rocky outcrop on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. Dustin Self, 14, of Piedmont, Okla. was missing on the mountain, where a rancher found his abandoned pickup truck on Tuesday, April 18, 2013. The 30-mile long fault block of basalt is the highest point in the desert of southeastern Oregon at 9,773 feet. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bob Ellis)

High winds ground Ore. air search for Okla. teen

Jeff Barnard · April 18, 2013 4:00 am

Last partner drops out of Coos Bay coal port

Last partner drops out of Coos Bay coal port

Jeff Barnard · April 2, 2013 1:02 am

Corps assesses danger from big quake at 20 NW dams

Corps assesses danger from big quake at 20 NW dams

Jeff Barnard · April 2, 2013 12:01 am

Investors drop out of Coos Bay coal port project

Investors drop out of Coos Bay coal port project

Jeff Barnard · March 11, 2013 9:02 pm

State of Ore. backs Klamath Tribes water rights

State of Ore. backs Klamath Tribes water rights

Jeff Barnard · March 8, 2013 1:42 am

5 Ore. airport towers on FAA closure list

5 Ore. airport towers on FAA closure list

Jeff Barnard · March 7, 2013 8:27 pm

Man who fought gunman not surprised by shooting

Man who fought gunman not surprised by shooting

Jeff Barnard · February 28, 2013 5:00 am

Wyden pledges renewed timber county payments

Wyden pledges renewed timber county payments

Jeff Barnard · February 23, 2013 12:46 am

Ore. agency: Wave energy possible in 4 areas

Ore. agency: Wave energy possible in 4 areas

Jeff Barnard · January 26, 2013 12:57 am

Scientists claim censorship by federal agency

Scientists claim censorship by federal agency

Jeff Barnard · January 8, 2013 1:06 am