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North Coast wildlife center takes patience with 'patients"
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (1117+ words) Published 10: 46 am Monday, June 8, 2026 For almost 30 years, the Wildlife Center of the North Coast has been hard at work near Olney. While other animal professionals work on pets and farm animals, all 65 "patients" at the Wildlife Center have one thing…...
Editor's Notebook: Darkness gathers for our bright spring birds
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (37+ words) The Daily Astorian Published 7: 29 am Friday, April 24, 2026 By Matt Winters/Regional editor Ilwaco resident Matt Winters lives above the bird-rich Columbia River estuary....
In One Ear: Spying on eagles
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (232+ words) The Daily Astorian In One Ear: Spying on eagles Published 6: 00 am Thursday, April 23, 2026 We are fortunate, indeed, to see so many bald eagles around the North Coast of Oregon, but it's usually at a distance. But now you'll have an…...
Conservation groups hold public meetings on forest protections after feds won't
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (508+ words) Published 9: 56 am Friday, April 10, 2026 PORTLAND" Before issuing sweeping protections on more than 30% of U. S. Forest Service-managed lands in 2001, federal officials spent more than a year holding 600 meetings across Western states and received more than 1. 6 million public comments. For now, U. S. Rep. Andrea…...
Commentary: Keeping public lands in public hands
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (542+ words) Published 6: 43 am Wednesday, December 3, 2025 This summer, an enormous wave of public outrage stopped a brazen attack on America's shared natural heritage. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah tried to sneak into the "Big Beautiful Bill" a clause that would have mandated…...
Oregon Dems request feds get more public input on massive new logging plans for western forests
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (322+ words) Published 3: 53 pm Friday, March 27, 2026 Oregon's congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to give the public more time to learn about and comment on new plans that would open up millions of acres of federal forests in Oregon to logging activity…...
Oregon finds invasive quagga mussel on boat at Ashland inspection station
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (289+ words) Published 9: 03 am Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff on Saturday found quagga mussels on a motorboat coming from Lake Havasu, Arizona, during a boat inspection in Ashland. Station crews decontaminated the boat and disposed of all the…...
Birds on 'Pacific Flyway' stop along North Coast
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1398+ words) Published 5: 00 am Friday, April 3, 2026 The tide pulls back along Oregon's North Coast, revealing a stretch of wet sand teeming with life. Small shorebirds dart along the shoreline, chasing retreating waves. Overhead, gulls circle and farther out, seabirds skim the surface…...
PETA protests treatment of elephant at circus stop in Astoria
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (503+ words) Published 4: 41 pm Tuesday, March 24, 2026 A traveling circus set to perform in Astoria this week is drawing protests from animal rights activists, who plan to gather outside the Clatsop County Fairgrounds & Expo on Wednesday to call for the release of an…...
What Whale Watching Week in Oregon can tell us about climate change
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (444+ words) Published 9: 19 am Tuesday, March 24, 2026 As gray whales make 10, 000-mile round trip migration, scientists warn less Arctic food is impacting reproduction It's Whale Watching Week in Oregon, which means coastal visitors will get the chance to spot gray whales as they…...