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President Obama could do a lot here- Here are my suggestions for new national monuments which Obama could designate. I have visited every site I recommend here, so I’m personally familiar with the areas. I have tried to put together a list that I think deserve protection, but also have some substantial political momentum in [...]
Continue Reading →Far wandering wolf and mate have first Oregon Cascade pups in over 70 years-
There was joy among wolf conservationists this spring when famous wolf OR-7 was found to be in company of a female wolf after his years of wandering over a thousand miles from his NE Oregon birthplace and then probably thousands more around the [...]
Continue Reading →Luckless wolf that went to California is back in Oregon-
The world’s currently most famous wolf, OR-7, born in NE Oregon, seems to have abandoned California and returned to Oregon.
He spent over a year looking for a female wolf, but there are probably no California girl wolves. During his search, he explored a [...]
Continue Reading →Is the fabled, but never found, creature making weird noises in the Blue Mtns. east of Pendleton?
The Wildlife News has discussed the matter of Bigfoot from time to time. Hint: search.
There are often things that look, and this time sound strange in the outdoors, and this time some think it is Bigfoot or [...]
Continue Reading →Release seemed to briefly stall, but now the goats are raising kids and expanding territory-
In 2010 45 mountain goats were released on the east slopes of Mt. Jefferson, a tall volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Soon 3 of them slipped to their death or were killed by predators. Most survived, however, and last July [...]
Continue Reading →Agreement ending 100 years of fighting over the uses of the Klamath River’s waters falls to a group of local malcontents-
After many years of fighting over salmon, dams, irrigation water, tribal treaty rights and ocean fishing matters came to an unpleasant head in 2001-2 when VP Dick Cheney sided with irrigators and let 70,000 [...]
Continue Reading →Jury rules that public land arson was committed-
The trial of two East Oregon ranchers, a father/son duo, has ended with their conviction by a jury in Pendleton, Oregon. . Dwight L. Hammond Jr. and son Steven D. Hammond were found guilty of setting range fires on public lands. One was in 2001 near [...]
Continue Reading →A rare subspecies of red fox that was once thought to be extinct, only to be rediscovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, has been discovered living in the Cascades of Oregon as well. The fox is adapted to living in the alpine tundra and scientists think that livestock grazing, and the poisoning of [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier on this issue in The Wildlife News.
Newport, Oregon. Several tones of oceanic species foreign to Oregon waters were removed from the 150 ton derelict dock, burned and buried. However, because of the concentration of creatures it is [...]
Continue Reading →Oregon Fish and Wildlife worries about non-native creatures on dock set adrift by earthquake tsunami-
There are many ways that non-natives travel the globe to invade foreign land and water. One rarely considered until recently is riding debris pushed out of sea by giant tsunami. Tiny starfish, an invasive mussel and foreign algae get the [...]
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