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In the mid-1950s I was working with Bob Couch cutting lodgepole on the west side of Newberry. One morning I fired up the old corn-binder, checked the tie-downs and was out on the logging road in minutes. When I pulled onto the main paved road, I’d be on my way to Hwy. 97 and then […]
“Way back, when the Sun was a tiny thing and the Big Dipper was a little tin drinkin’ cup,” (thanks Reub Long) I was living in the Jones House in Bend with Dean and Lily Hollinshead. One evening the phone rang. “This Jim Anderson, the wildlife guy?” a gruff voice asked. I said it was, […]
One the things I think I’m going to miss when I go out among the stars is the, “Oh, by the way,” meetings of people in the post office, grocery stores, hardware stores, thrift shops and other places in town. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t get that wonderful greeting, and […]
Editor’s note: Last week, we published an online-only story titled “Bobcat Bludgeoning Raises Concerns,” detailing the efforts by a local vet to change the rules around wildlife euthanasia. Right about that same time, Jim Anderson filed this story, which had a far happier ending. Way back in the mid ’50s I was living in the […]
Back in the Good Old Days, I’d get a phone call at least once a month all winter from someone all in a dither about stumbling over a scorpion somewhere in the house, woodshed or chicken coop. Oh, how I loved those “Hey, Jim, look what I got!” greetings in the post office, when someone […]
Oregon’s two senators, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Sen. Ron Wyden, have taken the land conservation bit in their teeth and are running with it to protect the Owyhee Country from rack and ruin. The two Democratic senators have co-written a bill named the “Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act.” In doing so they have […]
The title of this piece was inspired from the Oct. 24 edition of the Source Weekly, specifically Josh Jardine’s column, “Memories of the Volcano.” But the volcano I remember is one familiar to us all, Bachelor Butte, or as the downhill skiers know it, Mt. Bachelor. That’s not just a pile of rocks with a […]
There’s been a small rash of West Nile virus in eastern Oregon this year. West Nile is a virus transmitted by the native Culex mosquitos. It was first detected in the U.S. in 1999 and has since spread to 45 states. A horse in Crook County became ill in September. The vet looking into it found it to be the […]
Federal law states: “The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is prohibited by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1916.” This protects wild birds by preventing their killing by collectors, and their commercial trade in feathers—extending to all feathers, regardless of how they were obtained. There’s no exemption for molted […]
What has been leading to the drastic decline in insects and birds?
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