Salem to Sagebrush: Gov. Brown Visits Malheur NWR
By Wm. Tweed, FOMR Board Member Visitors come from all over to visit Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, but seldom does the refuge get to host a sitting governor. That’s...
Malheur, A Volunteer’s Reflection
By Eileen Loerch I have been coming to Malheur NWR since the late 1970’s. It drew me and my husband. We came every year, then, with our infant daughter....
Malheur NWR’s Nest Diversity
All birds lay eggs. The nests they build—or in some cases, don’t build—are as diverse as the birds themselves. Here’s a sampling of nests from birds that breed at...
Species Spotlight: White-faced Ibis
Flocks of these long-legged, curved-bill waders are a regular sight in spring, summer, and autumn in the interior West. A drive past Harney County’s many flood-irrigated fields and wet...
Malheur & Me: A Lifetime of Loving This Place
By Walt Wolfe, Friends Member This story appears because Janelle asked me if I would elaborate on what I told her in my Membership Renewal about my first visit...
Wanna-Bees and Puppet Monarchs: Mimicry in the Ins...
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photos by Peter Pearsall The natural world is full of deception. Choose almost any realm in nature and one will find organisms putting precious time and...
Malheur Refuge Reflections and Anticipations ̵...
Written by Jeff Mackay, Refuge Manager/Photo by Alan Nyiri Hello Friends of Malheur Refuge. Although we only just said goodbye to 2021 what seems like only a few weeks...
Meet Aurora Potts, Crane’s Nest Nature Store...
Aurora Potts grew up in Atlanta, GA watching wildlife on nature programs. She interned at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo and at Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on their...
The Long Road to Pronghorn Hot Springs
Written by Bruce Fisher/Photo by Peter Pearsall In 2018, when the Oregon Geographic Names Board (OGNB) received a proposal to name a geographic feature in Harney County, the road...
Honoring a Family Legacy of Commitment to Conserva...
Bill Martin was Deputy Director for Region 1 USFWS and after relocating to Oregon to take that post he decided to retire there because he loved your state so...