On Thursday, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission takes a look at a new Wolf Management Plan. For those who care about the future of wolves in our state, this is the moment we’ve been waiting for. The agenda includes time for comments from the public. Wolf supporters – and detractors – are hoping...
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Off roaders are going to start seeing a lot of “closed” signs in the Mt. Hood National Forest. A new Forest Service plan dramatically cuts back where off road vehicles are allowed. Environmental groups couldn’t be much happier.
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Oregon Fish and Wildlife is giving us our first look at the newest members of the state’s growing wolf population. The three photos, released late Wednesday afternoon, show the two pups born this year to the Wenaha wolf pack in Northeast Oregon. ODFW captured, weighed and measured, then released the pups last Friday.
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ODFW just released this photo showing the alpha male of the Imnaha pack in Wallowa County. The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago as he and the alpha female stepped in front of a trail camera. If you’ve been following the wolf news this summer, you’ll remember that his radio collar stopped...
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About a month ago, a federal judge blocked plans to ship garbage from Hawaii, through the Columbia Gorge, to a landfill in Eastern Washington. It was a victory for environmental groups and the Yakama Nation. They said the federal government didn’t do a good enough job evaluating the risks of invasive species that might...
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The Wenaha wolf pack in Northeast Oregon has produced at least two pups this season. ODFW confirmed the news this afternoon. They appear to the first pups born to the Wenaha pack. And there’s some good news to report on Oregon’s other wolf pack. After being missing for almost three months, the alpha male...
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This post was written by Nick Engelfried, a volunteer for Sierra Club and one of the organizers of the Paint Past Coal event. On Tuesday students and supporters involved in the Beyond Coal campaign used art to put our vision of Oregon’s clean energy future on canvas as part of an event titled Paint...
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Give the gang at Coal Free Oregon some credit for coming up with new ways to keep their cause in the news.
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Washington DNR gave final approval today for a major expansion of the trail system in the Yacolt Burn State Forest. The new plans covers about 40,000 acres, nearly all of them in Clark County.
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Cruising the Willamette River on a perfectly sunny summer afternoon, it was tempting to forget that we were in the middle of a Superfund site. But as one of our tour guides reminded me, “It’s what you can’t see that will hurt you.”
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