In just a few months, a lone Rocky Mountain Goat has become one of the most popular celebrities in Central Oregon.
Often spotted along Hwy 20 east of Bend, the male goat was first seen last December. As far as anyone knows, he’s the only one of his kind in the area.
That’s enough for him...
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Faced with a difficult decision about protecting – or not protecting – the Greater sage-grouse, Interior says it’s going to split the difference.
Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday morning that the sage-grouse deserves to be listed by the Endangered Species Act, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. The official label is that listing...
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The all you can eat seafood buffet at Bonneville Dam is open for business.
Early season numbers from Oregon Fish and Wildlife tell us that anywhere from a dozen to two dozen sea lions are hanging out at the dam, enjoying the easy pickings of salmon and sturgeon. Most of are Steller sea lions, only...
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One of the biggest wildlife stories of last year was news that a pack of ten wolves are living in the Imnaha Wildlife Management Unit in Wallowa County.
In order to better follow the pack and understand their movements, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife captured three pack members last weekend and...
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It wasn’t all that long ago that the Oregon State Parks system was on the brink of collapse. After years of budget cuts, park maintenance had fallen so far behind that more than five dozen state parks were in danger of shutting down.
But a group of Oregonians came to the rescue, and in 1998 voters...
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With about a month into the official winter season, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking people to be careful around hibernating bats. Wildlife officials are concerned about White Nose Syndrome, a fungal disease that’s killed a million bats in the Eastern United States.
As far as we know, Oregon bats aren’t in...
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After raising concerns about starving and dying brown pelicans, U.S. Fish and Wildlife says things are looking much better on the Oregon coast.
Roy Lowe with the FWS office in Newport says they’ve received no calls from the public today, and when he surveyed the beach this morning he didn’t see any pelicans at all....
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Some new information and perspective on the coastal brown pelican die-off from Sharnelle Fee with the Wildlife Center of the North Coast in Astoria.
It’s been a busy season for them. It all started with the massive die-off of shorebirds during last fall’s algae bloom. They took in nearly 750 birds over a six-day period.
Then...
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We’re at the beginning of what could be another major die-off of Brown Pelicans along the Oregon Coast.
Things are developing so quickly no one really knows yet how many of the birds have died, or how much worse things will get. Dawn Grafe with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says calls to the agency...
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The timber industry has lost the battle to remove the marbled murrelet from the Endangered Species list.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the bird will keep its status as a “threatened” species. It made the decision after reviewing a petition from the American Forest Resource Council and other groups. They were hoping to...
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