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Cascades wilderness permits required to help preserve hiking trails
The Forest Service is requiring central cascades wilderness permits to protect the many hiking trails the public enjoys from being worn down. Permits…
Continue ReadingThe Forest Service is requiring central cascades wilderness permits to protect the many hiking trails the public enjoys from being worn down. Permits…
Continue ReadingThe Sunriver Nature Center’s newest animal ambassador, a gyrfalcon, now has a name — Freya, the facility announced…
Continue ReadingFederal land managers have begun efforts to capture about 50% more wild horses than originally planned this year because of severe drought across the…
Continue ReadingAfter being delayed by the pandemic, and then last month’s Grandview Fire, restoration work on a 1.5-mile stretch of Whychus Creek is now…
Continue ReadingIn response to a petition and lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday granted endangered…
Continue ReadingThe Bureau of Land Management Burns District announced Friday plans to conduct a helicopter gather of wild horses within and immediately adjacent to…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday it has authorized lethal action and will provide a kill permit to a Baker County livestock…
Continue ReadingA new grant will allow Oregon State University researchers to study the nutritional value of more than 100 bee-pollinated crops, native plants and…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Low oxygen levels measured off the coast of Oregon and Washington are raising concerns of large “dead zones” that could…
Continue ReadingSouthwest Bend resident Colleen Quinn said Thursday she still can’t believe a cat brought a dead, rabid bat into her…
Continue ReadingOfficials on the massive Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, approaching 400,000 acres in size, confirmed Wednesday that the fire was determined to be…
Continue ReadingA 17-year study in Oregon, Washington and California has found that removal of invasive barred owls arrested the population decline of the northern…
Continue ReadingExtreme heat and wildfires throughout the state of Oregon have a lot of people wondering how wildlife is being affected. The Bend wildlife hospital…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-3 Friday to reclassify the marbled murrelet from threatened to endangered under the state’s…
Continue ReadingRocky Wenrick, a La Pine resident said something has been killing his chickens for the past month, and he suspects it’s a…
Continue ReadingThe Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says it is implementing emergency regulations that will begin Thursday in several angling zones, as…
Continue ReadingOregon State University researchers have some good news for the well-meaning masses who place bird feeders in their yards: The small songbirds who…
Continue ReadingThe Sunriver Nature Center’s newest animal ambassador is a 5-week-old gyrfalcon, member of the largest falcon species in the world, and as is often…
Continue ReadingMOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing a bird found in the North Cascades as threatened under the…
Continue ReadingThe USDA Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory last week confirmed rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) in a wild black-tailed…
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