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Courtesy of ODFWAmid drastic declines in Chinook salmon in the Coquille River watershed, the Coquille Indian Tribe last year began pushing the state for more authority in managing natural resources in southwest Oregon, culminating in a state commission approving an agreement. -
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBThe U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
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At least three companies have staked mining claims in some of the best remaining sage grouse habitat in Oregon. -
A group of environmental organizations has filed a notice to sue Pacific Gas & Electric over declining fish species in California’s Eel River.
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The Western Oregon Habitat Conservation Plan would offer the state legal protection for 70 years of forest management.
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Abalone are near extinction, but UC Davis researchers think they can help turn that around with the help of an old medical tool used in hospitals for decades: ultrasounds.
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The ruling by a U.S. district judge puts a spotlight on a species whose recovery from near-extinction has been heralded as a historic conservation success.
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Among the possible reasons for a fluctuation in monarch populations, experts look to changes in climate, varying from rising temperatures to the current drought.
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Sunflower sea stars, a large 24 armed marine predator that lives on the West Coast, are one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act.
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Two of the Klamath Basin's native suckers are in big trouble. The endangered populations are declining fast. But scientists and the Klamath Tribes are looking for solutions that can bring the fish back.
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An Oregon-born gray wolf, which made headlines for traveling farther south in California than any known wolf in nearly a century, has died, apparently hit by a vehicle.
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Over 1000 acres of crucial habitat on Mt. Ashland will be preserved through a large grant to a nonprofit conservation group.
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Environmental groups say the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves has left the animals vulnerable.
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Invasive smallmouth and striped bass came into the Coquille River roughly a decade ago. They've been feasting on young salmon since, disrupting the numbers of this prized fish. Now the Coquille Indians and the state department of Fish & Wildlife are going on the offensive, electro-fishing being one of the latest tools at their disposal.
