By Victoria Sanchez, The Siuslaw News YACHATS – It’s 4:30 a.m. and the rustle of rain jackets and tents interrupts the otherwise stillness of the Cape Perpetua campsite. Some […]
The last of the series of lowest tides of the year occur each morning this weekend. The lowest low tides start Thursday, Aug. 1 with a minus tide of […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats experienced its third driest June in the last 10 years and so far this year has received five inches less than its average six-month rainfall. But […]
Just in time for thousands of Fourth of July visitors, the lowest tides of the year return Wednesday, July 3 through Friday, July 5. And to make exploring even better, […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Mikell Sumerau fought with the U.S. Army in Kuwait and Iraq and during his time with the Army National Guard was deployed to every state on the […]
A summer of outdoor activity at Cape Perpetua kicks off Saturday, June 1, with a National Trails Day event. It is the first of three months of activities scheduled by […]
By ELAINE WATKINS/YachatsNews.com When one of Oregon’s state parks needs seashore bluegrass to restore a beach near Astoria, it contacts Celeste Lebo. When native thistle needs to be planted to […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Jim Rice gets lots of questions about seals and sea lions. Most inquiries are about their health or when adult or offspring come ashore. Rice is the […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The pasture stretches for a mile, bordered on the south side by the Yachats River. In the middle are meandering bush-lined ditches filled with water for frogs […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A local conservation group organizing an effort to buy 30 acres of undeveloped land along the Yachats River is putting the effort on hold and dropping a […]
