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An Asian giant hornet, trapped at Birch Bay, Wash. on July 14, 2020 by Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) researchers, is seen at Olympia, Wash. on July 29, 2020. (Photo: WSDA/Chris Looney/handout via Reuters)

U.S. training ag staff to track, trap, kill ‘murder hornets’

Invasive species remains threat to bees, honey producers

By Tim Exton August 20, 2021

Blaine, Wash. | Reuters — The first Asian giant hornet nest of the year has been found in Washington state, and plans are being developed to eradicate it, likely next week, the state’s agriculture department said on Thursday. The so-called stinging “murder hornets,” the world’s largest hornets, can grow to five centimetres in length and […] Read more

Wine grapes are seen hanging with remnants of smoke and ash at Hanson Vineyards at Woodburn, Oregon, about 45 km south of Portland, on Sept. 17, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

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Charred U.S. west’s ‘wet ashtray’ wine grapes left to birds

By Karl Plume September 23, 2020

Reuters — Heavy ground smoke clouded Hanson Vineyards in Oregon’s picturesque Willamette Valley for more than a week following a Labour Day windstorm that kicked up wildfires across the western United States. Jason Hanson expects his crews may only harvest five tons of grapes, including his Chardonnay and Gamay varieties, down from the 25 to […] Read more

An adult Thelazia gulosa removed from the eye of a human and shown here on a person’s finger. (CDC.gov)

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Eye worm, known only in cattle, found in U.S. woman’s eye

By Gina Cherelus February 13, 2018

New York | Reuters — An Oregon woman has become the first person worldwide known to have had an eye infestation by a tiny worm species previously seen only in cattle that is spread by flies that feed on eyeball lubrication, U.S. government researchers said on Monday. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists […] Read more

Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)

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Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

By Jimmy Urquhart February 12, 2016

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Police and federal agents searched a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence on Friday, a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered to end a six-week armed standoff. Federal authorities said the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon […] Read more

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FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

By Peter Henderson January 27, 2016

Reuters — U.S. and state officials in Oregon on Wednesday set up checkpoints around Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where an armed group pledged to prolong its standoff with the government a day after one protester was shot and eight others were arrested. Authorities said the new security involves a series of checkpoints along key routes […] Read more

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Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

By Jimmy Urquhart, Jonathan Allen January 5, 2016

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Residents of the Oregon town thrust into the spotlight after self-styled militiamen took over a U.S. wildlife refuge voiced sympathy for the jailed ranchers whose plight inspired the action but were critical of the armed protesters. Saturday’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside the town of Burns, Ore., […] Read more

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Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

By Andy Sullivan January 5, 2016

Reuters — Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanize opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error — potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third day to call attention to […] Read more

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Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

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By Jimmy Urquhart January 4, 2016

Princeton, Ore. | Reuters — A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the U.S. West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, […] Read more

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Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

By Courtney Sherwood May 16, 2015

Portland | Reuters –– The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will cut the amount of federal irrigation water available to farmers along the Oregon-California border to half the annual norm as it grapples with a fourth year of regional drought, the agency said on Friday. Though the roughly 1,200 affected farms in the Klamath Basin had […] Read more

CoCoRaHS’ daily precipitation data for the U.S. for March 19, 2015.

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No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

By Christine Stebbins March 19, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the U.S. this spring even as the dry season begins, the government’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. “Periods of record warmth in the West and not enough precipitation during the rainy season cut short drought relief in California this winter and […] Read more

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U.S. training ag staff to track, trap, kill ‘murder hornets’

Charred U.S. west’s ‘wet ashtray’ wine grapes left to birds

Eye worm, known only in cattle, found in U.S. woman’s eye

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

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