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Federal funding that was supposed to be used to build a wildlife crossing spanning I-5 south of Ashland has been paused amid a larger review of transportation grants by the Trump Administration..
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It will be the first overcrossing built to reduce wildlife and vehicle collisions along I-5, which spans nearly 1,400 miles from the Washington-Canada border to the California-Mexico border.
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Can we talk about poop for a moment? Specifically, raccoon poop in the wild. It can provide... well, nutrition for other animals. But it can also provide…
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California was once home to an estimated 500,000 elk. The number is quite a bit smaller now, maybe 13,000, but elk--in three subspecies--are on the…
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Oregon is the "beaver state," but the designation does not help beavers much. The title confers no protection, and beavers are still killed all the time.…
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The wildlife refuges of the Klamath Basin are great places to see (and hear) birds in great numbers. But the numbers would be even greater with an…
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Scientists just identified a new species of flying squirrel in North America, and it lives right here near us. Humboldt's flying squirrel is named for the…
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We love a good chat about the interactions between humans and animals. So we could not resist going into the vault to revisit an earlier interview with…
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It's no accident that Native Americans revere the coyote as a trickster, and Warner Brothers named a cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. It's just…
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We've come a long way from the days when we described the other creatures on the Earth simply as "beasts" or "dumb animals."We certainly understand animal…
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A proposal to expand bear hunting in the spring in southwestern Oregon recently died after quite a bit of controversy. The state Department of Fish and…
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The dreaded Ebola virus is a hemorrhagic disease… it can cause copious bleeding in the body. Deer can contract their own hemorrhagic disease, and it…
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Highway workers post signs warning of deer along rural roads. But do people really slow down when they see the signs? The large numbers of deer hit by…
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The grizzly bear roams just a small fraction of its historic range here in the Lower 48 states. But talk of expanding that fraction could draw some sharp…