Wildlife

What miracles lurk beneath the surface of your local creek? Oregon State University ecologist Judy Li has your answer.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

Hanna Miller was a natural resource specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2023, Miller was awarded employee of the year for NOAA Fisheries in the western United States.

A $33 million grant to build a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 south of Ashland is on hold while the Trump administration reviews transportation funding.

Eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000s, when the federal government took the thriving birds off its endangered species list with more states following suit. Culturally, too, the animals are soaring.

The rolling 10-year average return has gone up since the 1990s, but is still well short of goals set by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California coasts. But the Siletz Tribe is trying to bring them back.

Five Northwest conservation groups have joined the federal government in defending a program to kill barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect the threatened northern spotted owl.

Oregon's transportation agency received $33 million from the federal government to build the first overpass crossing for wildlife on I-5.

The Benton County Salmon Watch program has helped students learn about one of Oregon’s key migrations with hands-on experience for decades.