SPRINGFIELD – Not long after good news spread, lousy news came knocking.
Just days after the Willamalane Park and Recreation District completed its final stages of replanting 35 acres of blight-resistant filbert trees at Dorris Ranch in February, “a park ranger discovered approximately 50 saplings uprooted from the new orchards,” said Whitney Hoshaw, Willamalane’s marketing and communications manager.

Hoshaw said that there is no suspect…



