By NOAA News Service The number of gray whale calves migrating with their mothers along the West Coast this year was one of the lowest on record, NOAA Fisheries […]
Environment
A very wet end of October pushes Yachats-area’s 10-month rain totals to highest in a dozen years
October on the central Oregon coast was a nice sunny fall month – until it wasn’t. Five of the last 11 days of October saw rain totals of more […]
Can Oregon coast seaweed help eastern Oregon cattle from producing too much greenhouse gases?
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service Can seaweed grown on the Oregon coast help prevent beef cattle in eastern Oregon from producing too much methane? Oregon State University researchers are […]
Agencies place 700 big trees in Coast Range streams to restore habitat and help salmon, steelhead thrive
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews FIVE RIVERS – The first warning of impending danger arrives with the distant thrum of slapping blades that quickly gives way to the rhythmic thumping of […]
Seven years of drone pictures now giving OSU researchers new insights into coastal whale group
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – Drone footage captured by researchers in Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute is offering new insight into the acrobatics undertaken by gray […]
Feds postpone auction of wind energy sites off southern Oregon coast as Kotek pulls out of task force
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Amid mounting opposition to offshore wind development off the coast of Oregon, the federal government announced Friday it is delaying a planned auction for […]
Central coast salmon, steelhead hatchery on closure list as ODFW examines facilities, proposes cuts
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews OTIS – Clayton Morgan has spent the last eight years caring for hundreds of thousands of salmon, steelhead and trout at the state’s hatchery along the […]
Newport-based researchers halfway through four-year study how offshore wind turbines might affect sea life
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews For Lisa Ballance and her Oregon State University colleagues, it’s two years down and two to go in their ambitious effort to help federal regulators figure […]
Coos, Umpqua, Siuslaw tribes sue federal government in effort to stop October offshore wind auction
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Officials from the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are suing the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management over its decision […]
Researchers — and detection dogs — scour the southern Oregon coast to track the elusive, endangered marten
By JULIET GRABLE/Jefferson Public Radio On a warm day in late June, Jessica Buskirk, Alyssa Roddy, and Mark Stevens bushwack through a coastal forest just east of Gold Beach. […]