The annual fall rescue of thousands of fish stranded in a side channel of the Deschutes River was to begin next Monday, but has been moved up to this weekend after event planners learned that flows are dropping faster than anticipated, due to reduced river recharge and drier geological conditions resulting from drought.
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Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife troopers asked the public for help Monday to find whoever shot a buck deer three times with a bow and left it to waste last month in the Three Rivers community of Jefferson County.
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Oregon officials are seeking more than $27 million in damages over dam repairs they say killed more than half a million Pacific lamprey fish in what they’ve described as one of the largest damages claims for illegal killing of wildlife in state history.
Continue Reading A $27.6 million claim for recovery of damages was filed Friday in the Douglas County Circuit Court against the Winchester Water Control District and associated contractors for the loss of at least 550,000 juvenile Pacific lamprey during the district’s recent repairs to Winchester Dam.
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State’s voters had approved Dec. 31 deadline DENVER (KTVZ) – In a one-year agreement announced Friday between Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon will be a source for up to 10 wolves for the Colorado gray wolf reintroduction effort. These wolves will be captured and translocated between December
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Gut microbes found in wild wolves may be the key to alleviating a debilitating gastrointestinal condition common to domestic dogs, according to a study led by researchers at Oregon State University–Cascades.
Continue Reading CLACKAMAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington decided that Chinook retention can remain open upstream of Bonneville Dam after Oct. 15, the previously scheduled closure date, during a joint state hearing Wednesday. Effective Monday Oct. 16 through Dec. 31, retention of Chinook is allowed in the mainstem Columbia River from Bonneville Dam
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking public comments on a new Wildlife Corridor Action Plan, in accordance with HB 2834, the Wildlife Corridor and Safe Road Crossing Act, passed by the 2019 Oregon Legislature.
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NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today’s surviving whales, new research from Oregon State University shows. Researchers compared DNA from a collection of whale bones found on beaches near abandoned whaling stations
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — October is Bat Appreciation Month, and Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital, is celebrating by hosting a bat nest box workshop. Join them on Saturday, October 14 from 1 pm to 4 pm to learn about Central Oregon’s native bats and build a bat nest box to support their populations. Bats
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The Oregon Zoo is mourning the loss of Neka, the oldest of the zoo’s African lion pride, who died Friday night following a seizure.
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In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday proposed to protect northwestern and southwestern pond turtles in California, Oregon and Washington as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. (KTVZ)— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service released a draft plan Thursday analyzing options to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades in Washington. This step follows the Center for Biological Diversity’s successful litigation challenging the Trump administration’s 2020 termination of a previous restoration plan. The center’s news release continues in full
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Possible cougar activity was reported to the Sunriver Police Department on Thursday, prompting the posting of warning signs, authorities said.
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NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – Public calls reporting sick or dead sea lions on the coast typically increase this time of year, as male California sea lions leave California breeding grounds and move north along the West Coast in search of food. Each fall, some California sea lions die of leptospirosis on Oregon beaches.
Continue Reading SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — During the 2023 deer and elk hunting seasons, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will increase sampling efforts for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) throughout the state by providing hunters with quick and easy opportunities to have their harvested animal tested. As a reminder to hunters, CWD check stations are mandatory
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and Spokane Tribe of Indians signed the deal with
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Imagine taking an intimate look into the lesser-known lives of wild wolves through the lens of a decorated National Geographic photographer. Set to debut at the High Desert Museum on Saturday, October 21, the traveling exhibition Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan offers Museum visitors that remarkable opportunity.
Continue Reading HOOD RIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Hunters Association is offering $1,000 rewards for information related to each of three recent poaching cases, including a bull elk in Columbia County, a Mule deer doe in Baker County and a Black-tailed buck in Hood River County. OSP Fish and Wildlife Troopers do not believe the cases
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The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Friday with five in support and one abstention to prohibit contests for the taking of coyotes and other unprotected mammals after hearing testimony from more than 40 people at their meeting in Bend.
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