SALEM, Oregon, July 26 -- Cascadia Wildlands issued the following news release: Late Wednesday afternoon after hours of deliberation, the Oregon Board of Forestry voted 5-2 to accept a petition for rulemaking on coho salmon. The petition was brought by 22 different conservation and fishing groups under a rarely used portion of the Forest Practices Act which requires the Board to consider forest protections on private and state land when species are listed under state or federal endangered speci  more

BURLINGAME, California, July 22 -- The California Teachers Association issued the following news release: California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd announced today that the CTA Board of Directors has named former teacher and union advocate Gail Gregorio to serve as Interim Executive Director. She assumes those duties today. Gregorio recently retired as an Assistant Executive Director of CTA regional field operations. Gregorio began her career as a teacher in Gladstone, Oregon, and  more

BOULDER, Colorado, July 22 -- Geosphere, a journal on geosciences from the Geological Society of America, published 17 research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2019 edition: * Active dextral strike-slip faulting records termination of the Walker Lane belt at the southern Cascade arc in the Klamath graben, Oregon, USA * Eocene initiation of the Cascadia subduction zone: A second example of plume-induced subduction initiation? * Geologic framework of the northern Indo-Burm  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- The Journal of Chemical Education, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society, published 38 research articles, including the following topics, in its July 9, 2019 edition: * 26th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, July 18-23, 2020, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon * A 3D-Printable Dual Beam Spectrophotometer with Multiplatform Smartphone Adaptor * A Macroscale Model for Hands-On Activities Demonstrating Transmission Electron Microscopy   more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- The National Association of Broadcasters issued the following news release: The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will honor Patricia Smullin with the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award at the NAB Small Market Television Exchange (SMTE), held September 12 - 14 in Austin, Texas. "Patsy's passion for excellence in small market local television is unmatched," said NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith. "She exemplifies the best of broadcasting by running the lo  more

BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 24 -- Sexual Abuse, a journal that says it provides a forum for clinical and theoretical aspects of sexual abuse from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, published six research articles on the following topics in its September 2019 edition: * Between the Pew and the Pulpit: Can Personality Measures Help Identify Sexually Abusive Clergy? * Child Sexual Abuse in Organizational Settings: A Research Framework to Advance Policy and Practice * Examination of  more