Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.
Lee van der Voo
Posted inMarch 21, 2011: Big Beef
Rural Oregon timber county seeks economic revival through renewables
Lakeview, Ore., sounds like a sleepy place. When four of five local lumber mills closed in the late ’80s and early ’90s, wiping out more than 800 jobs, it shrank by a fourth, to 2,750 people. Stranded in southern Oregon’s desert, the town lacks traffic lights and fast-food outlets. Western-style storefronts line its narrow main […]
Posted inJune 21, 2010: Immersed in the Wild
Fish face-off
A proposal to ban gillnets in Oregon has commercial fishermen up in arms.