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A bill that would ban the sale of items made from kangaroo leather in Oregon likely won’t move forward this year in Salem.
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Pollinator Project Rogue Valley has all kinds of tips on which plants are most attractive and helpful for butterflies.David Lee Myers, who photographs many butterflies (and other subjects), leads that workshop.
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Sacramento River Settlement Contractors and the Sacramento Valley Ecological Restoration Foundation (SAVER) are putting in a second round of "rockwads," tree parts bound to boulders to provide fish habitat in the Sacramento. Roger Cornwell, SAVER's president and a member of SRSC, explains the process in a visit with John Hannon from the federal Bureau of Reclamation.
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Rashid Sumaila visited a few months ago to talk about farmed fish and their shortcomings. He returns to talk about a proposal to ban fishing on the high seas, and about his recent honors.
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Quinn Read, Oregon Policy Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, walks us through the legislative priorities of the Oregon Wildlife Coalition.
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The Center for Biological Diversity is among the groups seeking another attempt to bring sea otters back, because they are key players in coastal ecosystems. Emily Jeffers, an attorney at the Center, lays out the plan and the request.
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A tiny parasite is killing bighorn lambs in the Northwest. A new study has identified a common parasite that’s causing stillborn births of lambs.
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The unexpected deaths are hitting humpbacks and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast and gray whales on the West Coast — populations that were already under watch.
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Photoshoots are an unintended — but amusing — use of the cameras. The Open Space and Mountain Parks department in Boulder, Colo., set up nine of them to learn about and protect local wildlife.
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Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban the import and sale of products made from kangaroos.
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The conservation of a critically endangered bird species received a major funding boost.
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As in many arguments, opposing sides don’t always speak the same language. Such is the controversy of wolf management in the West, which is why new research found it’s important to clarify what people mean when they talk about managing the predators.
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Winter Whale Watch Week, with people staffing state parks to help watchers find whales, December 28th to January 1st Whale Watch volunteer Era Horton and State Parks Communications Officer Stefanie Knowlton.
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Jill Fritz is the senior director for wildlife protection with the Oregon Humane Society. We bring her in for a conversation about why coyotes are considered fair game, and how long a process this has been.