Biologists in Oregon are monitoring the Hart Mountain bighorn herd. This important herd faces threats including the encroachment of invasive plants. https://t.co/HAtvmkgQU2 @MyODFW#BighornSheep
Are you working on a conservation and/or recreation project but need funding? Join our informational webinar tomorrow, Feb. 17 at 1 p.m., to learn more about OCRF. https://t.co/EAFPMhvZ6Y
Photo by Sage Brown
#OCRF#oregonisalive
What could Ocean Acidification mean to Oregon's pink shrimp and oyster fisheries? Find out at this free talk.
Jan. 5, 3:30-4:30 pm on zoom or in person @HatfieldMSC Newport.
A coworker snapped this pic of a Pileated woodpecker in Douglas County.
Pileated woodpeckers need large hollow trees and snags for nest and roost sites.
On the other side of Oregon, they're a Conservation Strategy Species in the Blue Mountains Ecoregion.
The first Pacific lamprey passed over Soda Springs Dam since the new fish ladder opened in 2012.
It’s likely this is the first lamprey to migrate that high up in the North Umpqua River system in 70 years!
It's the start of #WildTurtleWeek! Check out some of the amazing work that @MyODFW and partners are doing in the Willamette Valley to protect Northwestern Pond Turtles https://t.co/vM8UJ1WRCJ
3 vacancies on the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund Advisory Committee, 2 ecoregions need reps (Blue Mountains and Columbia Plateau and the Northern Basin and Range) as well as 1 at-large. See link for details on how to apply. https://t.co/qMD81kUaUu
Grant applications open until Feb. 25 for the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund. Details: https://t.co/xYM5L42qli #oregon#conservation#recreation#grants
Animals, kelp, and… PLASTIC?! Yep, trash is often found in the Cobble Beach wrack line. 🙁❌
If you see plastic while walking the beach, do you pick it up and throw it away? If you do, thank you! Plastic pollutes the ocean and harms wildlife. #TidepoolTuesday
📸 L. Brandt, BLM
Fisher (Pekania pennanti) at DNA trap sites in SW OR. 1) fisher sniffs a site where the night before a rival one-eyed male visited 2) one-eyed male checks out the trap and scratches 3) a fisher scent marks and belly flops in the snow 4) a fisher pair! #mustelid#fisher#Oregon
@SecondNatureMB Genetic research in the early 2000s led to the reclassification of fisher, which were determined to be more closely related to species like wolverine than to the members of the Martes genus. Marten are still classified under Martes.