Outdoors

Outdoors Timber country: 'A beautiful place to live, a hard place to make a living' Timber country: 'A beautiful place to live, a hard place to make a living' (Photo Gallery)
Nearly 1 million people live in Oregon's timber country. The region's troubles have reached a tipping point since the expiration last year of federal subsidies that were sent to rural counties across America for 11 years to offset revenue losses caused by reduced logging on federal lands to protect endangered and threatened species.
Outdoors Rare island fox on the rebound from near-extinction Rare island fox on the rebound from near-extinction
A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday.
Outdoors Northern Lights peek out in Eastern Washington Northern Lights peek out in Eastern Washington (Photo Gallery)
As we mentioned in the blog Thursday, there's a particularly active sunspot on the sun right now.

It had, as its opening salvo while starting to face the Earth, unleashed a moderately strong solar flare that reached us late Friday, triggering a display of the Northern Lights that reached as far south as Colorado.