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Camilla Mortensen is the longtime local editor of Eugene Weekly, the area’s alternative newspaper. The paper, which has been in print since 1982 (originally as What’s Happening) continues to print more than 27,000 copies a week in addition to its popular email newsletters and website. Camilla has a masters degree in folklore and mythology from UCLA and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She has been a reporter and editor at EW since 2007 and teaches journalism at the UO in the mornings before heading to the Weekly’s office. She also teaches newswriting at Lane Community College and advises The Torch student newspaper.
Thanks to Oregon’s wandering wolf, California saw its first Canis lupus in the state since 1924. The young gray wolf known as OR-7, but now renamed “Journey” thanks to conservation group Oregon Wild’s naming contest, was confirmed in the Golden State via his GPS tracking collar on Dec. 29. According to Sean Stevens of Oregon Wild, “I’d be hard pressed to think of a more famous or accomplished wolf than OR-7.” Continue reading
Heavy Metal Uranium mine would bring jobs, at what cost? By Camilla Mortensen Continue reading
Death Metal Uranium mining may start in Oregon By Camilla Mortensen Continue reading
Nothing Gold Can Stay Is mining in Oregon worth the costs? Part I of II by Camilla Mortensen Compared to other Western states like Idaho and California, “on the whole Oregon is not very well endowed,” when it comes to gold, UO geology professor Mark Reed says. He says even Washington has more gold than Oregon. Continue reading
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! What is that thing swooping through the Oregon skies? Continue reading
Cry Me a River Part II in a series on the McKenzie: The McKenzie River, climate change and the future of clean water By Camilla Mortensen Continue reading
We may have reached peak oil, but has the U.S. reached peak wingnut? Peak oil, if you don’t know already, is the idea that the … Continue reading
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Samantha Chirillo, co-director of Cascadia’s Ecosystem Advocates Continue reading