The Amazing Northern Flicker
Perhaps because we see them regularly, it's easy to take the extraordinary colors and patterns of the Northern Flicker for granted. These entertaining birds are…
Conservation
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The Seymour Salmonid Society: Working Miracles to Avert a Disaster
Before a massive rock slide in 2014 threatened to wipe out the salmon and steelhead of North Vancouver's gorgeous Seymour River, few people had ever…
Emigrant Lake – Then and Now
Above is how Emigrant Lake near Ashland, Oregon looks today. But Back in October 2015, I visited the drought-stricken lake after two years of minimal…
More Hope for the Seymour River Salmon and Steelhead
Back in September, 2016, we wrote about how there was hope for the Seymour River salmon and steelhead that had been blocked from spawning due…
Wickiup Reservoir is Full Again
Compare the above photo of Oregon's Wickiup Reservoir, taken in June 2017, with the photo below taken in September 2015, when we reported on the…
Lake Abert Recovers
As you can see from the above photo, taken in February 2017 (posted here courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management), Lake Abert in southern…
Better News for Wickiup
From the Central Oregon Farm Fair, held February 3 2016, we hear better news (finally) about the drought in Central Oregon. According to Deschutes Basin…
Hope for Seymour River Salmon and Steelhead
Looks like there is hope for salmon and steelhead blocked by the Seymour River rock slide. The December 2014 rock slide kept the Seymour River's migrating…
So Far, El Niño Acting More Like “El No-No” in the Pacific Northwest
Earlier this fall, there was a lot of media hand wringing about the extreme El Niño forecast for the winter of 2015-2016. Certainly El Niño made…
Not Much Left of Emigrant Lake in Southern Oregon’s Drought
By October of every year, Emigrant Lake near Ashland, Oregon is usually quite low. Irrigators have spent six or more months drawing water, while the…