Cannon Beach reopened to the public around 10 a.m. Monday after wildlife and law enforcement officials confirmed a cougar sighted on Haystack Rock was no longer present, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials said.
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The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest announced Friday that Pittsburg Landing Campground, closed due to conflicts with an adult bear hanging out in the area, will reopen on Friday after having been closed since June 28th.
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Bend wildlife hospital and conservation center Think Wild recently welcomed their first ambassador animal, a juvenile red-tailed hawk, to their facility.
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Two adult trumpeter swans at Pronghorn Resort are overseeing their four babies, known as cygnets.
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– Deschutes County commissioners returned to the divided topic of a mule deer habitat update on Wednesday, not moving to create a stakeholder committee on the various issues but instead to invite Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials to a meeting to discuss their ongoing efforts.
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A Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy came to the aid of a snake after a Terrebonne resident reported finding it entangled in some garden netting.
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Deschutes County commissioners voted 2-1 Monday to withdraw the ongoing mule deer inventory update project, but more discussion of the issue and how to proceed is planned at a commission meeting next week, officials said Thursday.
Continue Reading For the purpose of public safety, the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area said Thursday it has temporarily closed Pittsburg Campground due to increased bear activity in the area.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On April 11, Bend wildlife center, Think Wild, received a call about an American Badger cub found alone near the Malheur Field Station near Crane, Oregon. The badger cub had been abandoned by the mother and was hypothermic and dehydrated. Think Wild worked with the finder to attempt to reunite the
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Oregon State University researchers estimate that gray whales feeding off the Oregon Coast consume up to 21 million microparticles per day, a finding informed in part by poop from the whales.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A week ago, Bend wildlife center Think Wild received a call about two nestling American Kestrels who had accidentally been transported with a bale of hay from Burns to a farm in Tumalo. The mother was not present, so the finder brought the two nestlings to Think Wild for care. Upon
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CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Who doesn’t like a big fish story? This one is about a sturgeon in a pond at Bonneville Fish Hatchery. Herman the Sturgeon is kind of a big deal in Oregon: a white sturgeon with a colorful history who happens to be celebrating his 89th birthday on Saturday, June 24.
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A male yearling wolf from the Indigo Pack who had lost its wariness of humans was struck by a vehicle and killed Tuesday on state Highway 138 near Lemolo Lake in southern Oregon, authorities said.
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The NBA Finals aren’t the only must-see basketball this season. Juno, a rescued sea otter at the Oregon Zoo, is swimming straight to the hoop — and she can dunk with the best of them.
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press A federal judge has yanked approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho, saying federal land managers in the Trump administration didn’t in part properly consider the mine’s impact on sage grouse, a bird species that has seen an 80% decline in population since 1965. U.S. District Judge B.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff will host a second webinar about its rewrite of the Mule Deer Management Plan on Tuesday, June 13 at 6 p.m. Watch it and participate via the Mule Deer Plan webpage. The topic of the webinar will be migration/connectivity and social and economic values for mule deer.
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Conservation efforts for the rare Sierra Nevada red fox can be strengthened through new computer modeling based on a 12-year data gathering partnership led by scientists at Oregon State University’s Institute for Natural Resources, says a researcher who helped direct the project.
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Delilah, an Oregon Zoo chimpanzee who helped launch a decades-long friendship with renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, turned half a century old Thursday.
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In response to litigation brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must decide by August 2026 whether to protect the imperiled Siuslaw hairy-necked tiger beetle under the Endangered Species Act.
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Wildlife officials captured a 25-pound snapping turtle found wandering through a Harrisburg pasture late last month, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday. The invasive species, which poses a threat to native fish and wildlife habitats, not to mention human hands and feet, was a product of illegal turtle trafficking.
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