By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s narrow beaches can make life difficult for western snowy plovers, those diminutive, long-endangered birds that nest in small crevices along the sand. Take last […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews After two years of higher catch limits, Oregon’s fishery managers are cutting back on Chinook salmon harvests in bays and rivers along the central coast starting […]
By NOAA NEWS SERVICE and YACHATSNEWS The number of gray whales that migrate along the West Coast continued their decline this winter from a high seven years ago, but […]
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Rates of incidental catches of Chinook salmon in the Pacific hake fishery rise during years when ocean temperatures are warmer, a signal […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews For decades, scientists assumed that trapping and loss of critical habitat had led to the extinction of the marten population that once inhabited much of Oregon’s […]
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service NEWPORT — Oregon State University researchers estimate that gray whales feeding off the Oregon coast consume up to 21 million microparticles per day, a […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Federal wildlife officials floating the idea of returning sea otters to the Oregon coast in an effort to re-establish their historic range are also hoping they […]
By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service CORVALLIS — Newly planted vegetation on coastal sand dunes can accelerate erosion from extreme waves, a study involving researchers from the Oregon State University […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews An iconic species of sea star has disappeared in such astonishing numbers along the Oregon coast over the past decade that researchers are now circulating what […]
By IAN ROSE/Oregon Capital Chronicle CORVALLIS — Climate change is forcing fish to move to cooler waters to survive, which means big changes for Oregon’s coastal communities and for […]
