A unique program has convicted wildlife traffickers in Oregon working with researchers to understand why people commit wildlife crimes. The conditions of their sentences involve community service with University of Maryland professor Meredith Gore. The …
Land managers invest millions of dollars annually to place large pieces of wood back into streams to improve fish habitat. But little has been known about how these log jams affect birds and land-based animals. …
Sage-grouse don’t stick to the ground and neither do researchers. To find greater sage-grouse leks, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists take to the air by helicopter in search of the areas where they …
The Oregon Department of Justice has hired its first special prosecutor dedicated to enforcing anti-poaching laws. Jay Hall was hired in February as a new assistant attorney general in February. As a prosecutor with the …
Oregon authorities are investigating the deaths of eight wolves, including a pack of five, since February. All of the wolves (Canis lupus) were poisoned. State police are now asking the public for tips. The wolves …
Biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife are working to conserve fishers (Pekania pennanti), a species state listed as sensitive. Fishers are hard to find in the wild, but checking DNA trap sites …
A wolf that journeyed from Oregon into Southern California has died after being struck by a vehicle. The male gray wolf (Canis lupus), known as OR93, was found dead in Kern Coounty, about 75 miles …
In 2015, biologists Greta Wengert and Mourad Gabriel were conducting necropsies on fishers—a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act at the time—to find out what was causing their mortality on the West Coast. …
Pygmy rabbits aren’t easy to find, and recent wildfires in Oregon raise questions about effects on their isolated populations. Recently, biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife set out to better understand pygmy …
It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, the two translocated populations had very different results. …
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