The Freedom for Great Apes sanctuary in Tumalo, formerly known as Chimps Inc., has sadly announced the recent death of Patti, one of their seven chimpanzee residents, at the age of 40 from heart disease.
Continue Reading
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The state of Oregon released Wednesday the 2023 essential salmonid habitat map, which shows streams where activities like building docks or adding riprap usually require a removal-fill permit. The map identifies streams that are critical habitat for Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and other sensitive, threatened or endangered fish species. Oregon law
Continue Reading
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Center for Biological Diversity and the Audubon Society of Portland sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday to protect streaked horned larks, once-numerous birds found in Washington and Oregon, as endangered. In April 2022, the Service listed streaked horned larks as threatened instead of endangered, granting the birds fewer protections and leaving
Continue Reading
Desert bighorn sheep whose Southern California range is bisected by freeways may one day benefit from Oregon State University modeling designed to show where the animals would be most apt to use overpasses to safely cross the interstates.
Continue Reading
By working together, dolphins and net-casting fishers in Brazil each catch more fish, a rare example of an interaction by two top predators that is beneficial to both parties, researchers have concluded following 15 years of study of the practice.
Continue Reading
At first glance, Scout might look like he’s a typical, playful pup, but this 18-month-old, black Lab is developing a nose for crime. Meet the newest member of the Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Conservation K-9 team, based in Bend, and his human partner.
Continue Reading
Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game believe is the first case of sea otters becoming the primary food source for a land-based predator.
Continue Reading
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A nonprofit group that aims to protect endangered species asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday to reintroduce sea otters to a stretch of the West Coast from Northern California to Oregon. Threatened southern sea otters occupy only 13% of their historic range, with a small population of the
Continue ReadingWARRENTON, Ore. (AP) — A baby gray whale washed up on the northern Oregon coast on Wednesday, making it the third dead whale to beach on the state’s coastline over the past week. The 12-foot-long calf washed ashore at Fort Stevens State Park, KGW reported, only 100 yards (91 meters) from the site where a
Continue Reading
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 40-foot sperm whale that beached on Oregon’s northwestern coast was killed after being struck by a ship, federal biologists conducting a post-mortem examination of the animal determined Monday. Biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries agency, NOAA Fisheries, came to that
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has authorized the killing of two more wolves, several weeks after the state fatally shot two young wolves from the same pack. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Lookout Mountain pack was suspected of injuring or killing five cows over two weeks in July, and the
Continue Reading
On August 15, Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, received a call on their wildlife hotline about an injured eagle near Pringle Falls in La Pine. Think Wild immediately dispatched a rescue and transport volunteer, Gary Lauder, to assess the situation and capture the eagle for transport to Think Wild.
Continue Reading
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Prineville District is implementing seasonal wildlife closures to protect bald eagles, golden eagles, and prairie falcons during sensitive nesting periods.
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Whale Watch Week in Oregon returned in-person for the first time since the pandemic on Wednesday, drawing visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the annual gray whale migration to the state’s coastline. By early afternoon, more than 500 people had flocked to the
Continue Reading
– Whale Watch Week is still set to open Wednesday, despite a blustery Whale Watch eve that brought downed trees, power outages and high water to the Oregon Coast, officials said.
Continue Reading
Doctors at Oregon State University’s veterinary hospital performed the first known total ear canal ablation surgery on a pig this week, in consultation with a human ear doctor who previously operated on the lead veterinary surgeon’s ear.
Continue Reading
The Sunriver Nature Center joins the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, now in its 103rd year. Another is coming up in February.
Continue Reading
As part of its ongoing commitment to ensure the future of elk and other wildlife by helping rehabilitate landscapes impacted by wildfire, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners allocated $3,351,126 for more than two-dozen projects across Oregon.
Continue Reading
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – This year, anglers caught and removed more than 140,000 northern pikeminnow from the Columbia and Snake rivers, protecting hundreds of thousands of young salmon and steelhead from predation while earning more than $1.3 million in rewards, the Bonneville Power Administration said Monday. Nearly 1,200 people registered to be part of the
Continue Reading
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission directed ODFW staff Friday to work with the Department of Justice and develop rules to stop coyote killing contests in a way that is consistent with its legal authority, while denying a petition from 15 organizations requesting rulemaking on this issue.
Continue Reading