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CGN cougar

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An injured cougar was killed in White Salmon in December after it was reported to be walking across property in town. 

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Steider watched polar bears sleep, dig, scratch, sniff and swim. Here, bears pause to show off their big webbed feet and thick fur.

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The six bears encountered by local photographer Linda Steider are among just 300 remaining in Svalbard, with ice there melting seven times fas…

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Wings on the River: How to hatch an egg
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Wings on the River: How to hatch an egg

  • By Flora Gibson
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Years ago, on an oak-covered hill, I found a slender white oak that was hollow, like a tube. About three feet up, part of the trunk ended in a little round hole. By sticking my nose down the hole and wrapping my hands around my face to exclude the sun, I could see all the way to the bottom, where half-a-dozen or so pearlescent, streaked eggs gleamed in a little heap of brown fur.

Gorge pika resilient in wake of fire
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Gorge pika resilient in wake of fire

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In the wake of last year’s Eagle Creek Fire, a group of citizen scientists ventured out to the Columbia River Gorge with one question on their minds: How are the pikas?

Hazing sea lions not a long-term fix
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Hazing sea lions not a long-term fix

  • RAELYNN RICARTE, The Dalles Chronicle
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A peculiar war is being waged on the Columbia River as tribes seek to keep sea lions from decimating salmon runs, and the sea mammals refuse to give up the all-you-can-eat buffet.

Hazing sea lions not a long-term fix
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Hazing sea lions not a long-term fix

  • RaeLynn Ricarte
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A peculiar war is being waged on the Columbia River as tribes seek to keep sea lions from decimating salmon runs, and the sea mammals refuse to give up the all-you-can-eat buffet. Three days a week, Bobby Begay and his two-man crew — Reggie Sergeant and Ted Walsey Jr. — from the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission board a boat at the North Bonneville dock to mount an offensive against predatory sea lions.