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B ack in 1966, when Multnomah County began a five-day Outdoor School program for all sixth graders in their system, Betty Gray of Portland—wife of John Gray, who got Sunriver and several other Oregon-based projects going—thought her life-long dream of kids learning in the forest had at last come true. She left it with her […]
“T here are three birds over the butte on the east side, just under those puffy clouds…” Chuck Gates said, speaking under his binoculars. “Got ’em,” Peter Low responded, getting his scope up to his eye. “Looks like turkey vultures,” he said after a few moments. If Peter Low says they’re TVs, they are TVs. […]
O ne of the most rewarding wildlife projects I’m involved with, from about the middle of June to February, is the East Cascade Audubon Society’s Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Project. From February to the middle of June, my life is dedicated to helping the Oregon Eagle Foundation know more about what’s going on with Oregon’s Golden […]
A lot of readers have asked me why I spend so much time in, and talking about, the wilds of interior Oregon. Two very important reasons: 1. Golden Eagles nest and feed in that neck of the woods, and 2. I love it out there. For about nine out out of 10 Oregon residents, Lake […]
C rane flies came flying into my life (again) last week with the arrival of a photo from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wildlife biologist Kelly Hazen, who has them hanging around her porch light every night. Being a wildlife biologist and tour guide for the High Desert Museum, she thought I’d like to […]
T he present populations of our western bumblebees are in big trouble, which from my perspective is more important from the biological and ecological perspective than the problems facing domestic honeybees. I’ve been a beekeeper most of my adult life. I love having domestic bees in my immediate vicinity. Of course, I love the honey […]
T omorrow morning, when you tumble out of bed, grab your bicycle, lunch, binocs and camera and head for the Crooked River Wetlands off O’Neil Road between Terrebonne and the city of Prineville. The Crooked River Wetlands Project is one of the most wonderful things to happen to Central Oregon in a long, long time. […]
T he Source’s “Best of” issue has always been a challenge for me. When it comes to birds and birding, there are so many birds and so many wonderful places to go birding in and around Central Oregon, I simply can’t decide what to call the “best” trip. There are the warblers along the Deschutes […]
A s if wild birds don’t have enough to cope with in trying to keep from being killed by those giant windmills used to create electricity, with the overdone night lights that confuse them while trying to migrate, the tall glass buildings they run into and the poisons used in agriculture, along comes what was […]
“Hey, Jim, this is Linda Sears. I’m on the road over to the Valley and from the Hoodoo summit to Belknap Springs there are thousands of orange and black butterflies everywhere! What are they and what’s going on?” My wife, Sue, listening to the conversation at her computer quickly said, “Oh, boy! It’s another outbreak […]
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