Travel & Outdoors

Life & Style Garden guidance: Program can help you transform your yard (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Joe English, KATU News Published: May 14, 2013 at 5:38 PM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2013 at 9:21 AM PDT

Columbia Land Trust manages the Backyard Habitats Program. It costs $25 to join, and coaches can give you some garden guidance.

Life & Style Controlling the sea lion population: Is it working?

By Shannon L. Cheesman, Multimedia Journalist / Travel & Outdoors Published: May 13, 2013 at 11:10 PM PDT Last Updated: May 14, 2013 at 12:53 PM PDT

It's a familiar story - sea lions and fishermen fighting over salmon. On the one side you have hungry animals snatching what they can from fish runs but on the other side you have humans trying to maintain what has been their economic lifeline.

Life & Style Waldo Lake motor ban goes to Kitzhaber for signature

By LAUREN GAMBINO, Associated Press Published: May 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 4:46 PM PDT

The state House voted Monday to ban motorboats and seaplanes from Waldo Lake, a popular recreational spot in the Cascade Range southeast of Eugene.

Life & Style Salmon-eating terns are on their own, no more help from the Army

By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Published: May 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2013 at 2:12 PM PDT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Life & Style PSU launches new business program focused on athletics and outdoors

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 13, 2013 at 4:03 PM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 4:07 PM PDT

Those looking for a career path in the athletic and outdoor industries can now get some formal education to prepare them for the type of work they're seeking.

Life & Style Trout fishing for kids: No experience required

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 13, 2013 at 11:42 AM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 11:45 AM PDT

There's a well-known proverb that says 'give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.'

Life & Style Photos: Chainsaw Carving Invitational (Photo Gallery)

By The Associated Press Published: May 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM PDT

Life & Style Take a look: Amtrak unveils their new locomotives (Photo Gallery)

By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press Published: May 13, 2013 at 9:24 AM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM PDT

When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and better energy efficiency.

Life & Style Travel spotlight: Rio's shantytown cable car is an unlikely tourist ride (Photo Gallery)

By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Published: May 13, 2013 at 9:15 AM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 9:16 AM PDT

Chatter on board the gondola on a recent Saturday soon revealed that all on board had come expressly to ride the 10-person cable-cars and get to know this long-forsaken part of Rio.

Life & Style First Sunday Parkways of the year gets folks out of the house (Photo Gallery)

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 13, 2013 at 8:32 AM PDT Last Updated: May 13, 2013 at 8:36 AM PDT

Although the weather was a little cool and drizzly on Sunday, that didn't stop folks from taking advantage of some closed streets to spend time out and about in their community.

Life & Style 'You don't even notice the hike back up, it feels so great going down' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Amanda Zitzman Published: May 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM PDT

Snowboarding season is over, but you can still get your kicks in at the sand dunes on the Oregon Coast.

Life & Style Bald eagle released back into the wild (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Lisa Nico KVAL News and KVAL.com staff Published: May 10, 2013 at 2:16 PM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 2:16 PM PDT

An eagle took flight over Fern Ridge Reservoir on Thursday, two weeks after the bird was found fighting for its life with another of its kind.

Life & Style Trees looking a little haggard? Blame it on drought stress

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 10, 2013 at 12:24 PM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 1:21 PM PDT

Some of Oregon's trees aren't faring so well this spring, especially the Douglas first and other conifers in the northwestern part of the state.

Life & Style Tilly, the zoo's river otter, is this year's 'Mother of the Year'

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 10, 2013 at 11:32 AM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM PDT

The public has spoken and Tilly the river otter is this year's Mother of the Year at the Oregon Zoo.

Life & Style First Sunday Parkways of the year falls on Mother's Day

By KATU.com Staff Published: May 10, 2013 at 10:41 AM PDT Last Updated: May 10, 2013 at 11:38 AM PDT

If you think a Mother's Day bike ride would be right up mom's alley, then you're in luck.