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Environmental advocates are rallying their supporters and urging them to speak out against the move by the Trump administration to repeal the so-called “Roadless Rule.”

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The University of Oregon is offering more details about how it plans to cut $65 million dollars from its budget as it weathers declining out-of-state enrollment and other trends impacting higher education.

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A Bend childcare center that closed abruptly in July will open its doors again soon – under a plan Oregon State University Cascades announced today [[TUES]]. Kathryn Styer Martínez reports.

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The Oregon Department of Transportation received a federal grant to create and restore pollinator habitat along Oregon highways. Jefferson Public Radio's Peyton Gast explains there are conflicted feelings from Rogue Valley pollinator advocates.

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The federal government is giving Oregon $150,000 to create pollinator habitat along its highways.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to open more forests to logging and other development. It’s publishing the details of its proposal tomorrow [[Wednesday]]. OPB's April Ehrlich [[ER-lick]] reports.

[Wrap: Ninth Circuit ruling could impact who serves as U.S. Attorney in Seattle

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Intro: A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s practice of installing top federal prosecutors without Senate confirmation.

As KUOW’s Amy Radil reports, the decision could impact Seattle.

The University of Oregon’s Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health has received a $125 million dollar grant to pilot a program expansion.

KLCC’s Julia Boboc has more: [SOQ 0:45]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Ecology are working their way through neighborhoods that have burned in the Spokane Complex fires

[WRAP] What an El Niño could mean for the Northwest

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LEDE: In Washington state, climate change is expected to bring lower stream flows, warmer winter temperatures and less snowpack in lower elevations. That’s according to a presentation from the state’s climatologist. [N-W-P-B’s senior environmental correspondent Courtney Flatt has more.]