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Outdoors blog archive for March 7, 2013

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

Video: What's Up With Fat Bikes? 

WINTER SPORTS -- Fat bikes, snow bikes.... whatever you call them, they're catching on year-round with a niche of the cycling community that's mobilizing on ballooned out tires. Get a glimpse of from the saddle in this video: What's Up With Fat Bikes?

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In this June 2, 2009 file photo, Josh Laughlin, foreground, conservation director with Cascadia Wildlands, visits the waterfall that is the centerpiece of the Devil's Staircase wilderness proposal on the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon's Coast Range. Legislation has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate to designate the area as wilderness, along with other areas around the state. (Associated Press)

Oregon wilderness bills reintroduced in Senate

FORESTS – Longstanding proposals to protect rivers and forests in Oregon as wilderness areas have been reintroduced in Congress by Oregon’s two senators. The bills would expand the Oregon Caves National Monument and Wild Rogue Wilderness in southwestern Oregon, create new wilderness along the John…

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Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.




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