Giant Plants of Southern Oregon – High Times
▻http://hightimes.com/grow/giant-plants-of-southern-oregon
Oregon medical #marijuana growers are allowed up to six plants per patient, and many patients grow for themselves. So if you’re an experienced and ambitious grower, but you’re only allowed half a dozen plants, what do you do? You grow them really, really big.
Four dams to be removed from Klamath River in Oregon and California
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/four-dams-removed-klamath-river-oregon-california
Government and company officials in California and Oregon have reached an agreement to remove four large hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in the hopes that it will restore the river’s historic fish runs.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) called it “one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation.” Removal of the dams, three in California and one in Oregon, is scheduled to begin in 2020.
The agreement was signed at the mouth of the Klamath last week by California Governor Jerry Brown and Oregon Governor Kate Brown, as well as Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, and the president and CEO of Pacific Power, the private utility company that owns the dams.
“This historic agreement will enable Oregon and California and the interested parties to get these four dams finally removed and the Klamath River restored to its pristine beauty,” Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement.
The hydroelectric dams were built along the Klamath River almost a century ago, blocking wild salmon and steelhead trout from reaching southern Oregon Klamath Tribes that have depended on them for thousands of years. Proponents of the agreement argue that removing the dams and restoring hundreds of miles of river to its natural condition will help save fisheries and protect the environment for California, Oregon and sovereign Native American tribes.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Klamath_Basin.jpg/1024px-Klamath_Basin.jpg #barrage #poissons #environnement #écologie #Californie #Orégon
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The 124 states of America
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/31/the-124-states-of-america
ecessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year. There’s an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot initiative in 2014. And there’s plenty more.
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Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in
Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government.
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