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Wildlife refuge planning meetings set on coast

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold five public meetings in communities along the Oregon Coast during November to review management plans for the Cape Meares, Oregon Islands, and Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuges. The agency is developing a 15-year "Comprehensive Conservation Plan" for the refuges. Meetings within the Register-Guard's circulation area will be held Wednesday at Newport High School's Boone Center Room, and Nov. 15 at Bandon High School. Both sessions start 6:30 p.m. For additional details, call (541) 867-4550 or see www.fws.gov/oregoncoast/.

Meanwhile, citing higher priorities, the USFWS announced it has halted work on a planning study for a proposed New River National Wildlife Refuge in Coos and Curry counties. The proposed refuge would have provided sanctuary for the Aleutian cackling goose as well as other fish and wildlife species.

Interpretive series looks at forests, mushrooms

The Fall Interpretive Series sponsored by the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History and Outdoor Program continues with two events this week. Whitey Lueck will lead a daylong old growth forest tour in the west Cascades on Saturday. Mushrooms will be the focus of a two-part clinic conducted by Ed Fredette. A 90-minute classroom session on mushroom identification will be held at 5:30 p.m....

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