Jeff Barnard

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In this Dec. 21, 2012 file photo provided by the Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, scientists inspect a dock that floated up on a remote stretch of wilderness beach in northwestern Washington. A scientist who examined the dock says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer, suggesting it also is a piece of tsunami debris from Japan. (AP Photo/Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife)

Wash. dock resembles one from Japan found in Ore.

Jeff Barnard · December 29, 2012 12:08 am

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2004 file photo shows Jack Lee Harelson, left, in Jackson County Circuit Court in Medford, Ore., with attorney Bob Abel. Authorities said Harelson, a former insurance agent and amateur archaeologist convicted of looting ancient Indian graves in the Nevada desert and later offering $10,000 in opals for a hit man to kill a former business partner, died Dec. 14, 2012 at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Roy Musitelli, Pool, File)

Oregon man convicted in murder-for-hire plot dies

Jeff Barnard · December 28, 2012 12:33 am

This undated photo by A.W. Ericson, provided by the Humboldt State University Library, shows school children posing on the Fieldbrook Stump, a huge coast redwood outside McKinleyville, Calif., sometime in the 1890s. The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has produced a clone from a spout at the base of the stump that will be planted on a ranch near Port Orford, Ore. The project is part of an effort to preserve the genetics of some of the world's biggest trees and plant them around the world to combat global warming. (AP Photo/A.W. Ericson, Humboldt State University Library)

Mich. man planting clones of long-dead redwoods

Jeff Barnard · December 4, 2012 1:18 am

Logger Eric Davis runs down the road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in the forest near Banks, Ore., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Monday, Dec. 3, regarding regulation of water runoff from logging roads.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

High Court to decide how logging roads regulated

Jeff Barnard · December 1, 2012 5:00 am

Judge blocks timber sales over sea bird nesting

Judge blocks timber sales over sea bird nesting

Jeff Barnard · November 27, 2012 10:40 pm

Longshore workers say they don’t want to strike

Longshore workers say they don’t want to strike

Jeff Barnard · November 27, 2012 1:51 am

Kids and dogs romp at a playground Oct. 25, 2012 in Arcata, Calif., a half block from a house raided by police on a warrant alleging it was a large-scale indoor marijuana growing operation. Fed up with the proliferation of large-scale indoor growing operations in residential neighborhoods, city officials are asking voetrs to decide on a stiff tax on excessive electricity use designed to drive growers out of town. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Pot town pushes back against industrial growers

Jeff Barnard · November 3, 2012 4:00 am

DeFazio once again challenged by Robinson

DeFazio once again challenged by Robinson

Jeff Barnard · October 27, 2012 11:34 pm

Study: Hatchery fish can succeed if bred from wild

Study: Hatchery fish can succeed if bred from wild

Jeff Barnard · October 1, 2012 11:15 pm

Scientists urge major salmon hatchery reforms

Scientists urge major salmon hatchery reforms

Jeff Barnard · August 8, 2012 4:14 am

Workers use a cable-cutting system to section the giant Japanese dock that was torn away by last year's tsunami and washed ashore on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 in Newport, Ore. The plan is to cut the 165-ton concrete dock into five slices, like a loaf of bread, and load them onto flatbed trucks, which drive over the soft sand on a roadway of planks and steel plates. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Randy L. Rasmussen) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT

Workers start cutting up Oregon tsunami dock

Jeff Barnard · August 1, 2012 4:00 am

Ore. defense contractor target of investigation

Ore. defense contractor target of investigation

Jeff Barnard · July 25, 2012 9:22 pm