Oregon

  • A Tentative List of Potential National Monuments

    George Wuerthner

    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…

  • OR-7 and mate have pups

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Wolf OR-7 returns to Oregon (permanently?)

    Ralph Maughan

    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 fair…

  • Some people think noises in a Blue Mountain Swamp are Bigfoot(s)

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Release of mountain goats near Mt. Jefferson, Oregon seems to be working

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Tea Party ruins big agreement to restore the Klamath River and settle long term nasty dispute

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • East Oregon ranchers convicted of setting public lands afire

    Ralph Maughan

    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 Steens…

  • Threatened Sierra Nevada red fox found in Oregon

    Ken Cole

    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…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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