On May 20, the Otley Ranch team and refuge staff moved 225 head of cattle, including bulls, cows, and calves, to Lava Beds Field. The move marked an important milestone for the project, bringing livestock into the study area for the first time under the virtual fencing system.
Early follow-up checks were encouraging.
How did you come to this job? Malheur has been a thread running through my whole career, starting with my first seasonal job on the Refuge as a teenager. Over
Success measures include changes in reed canarygrass height and structure and longer-term changes in plant diversity and habitat conditions, with a commitment to share a public summary of methods, monitoring results, and any adaptive changes.
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photo by Travis Miller, MNWR Supervisory Ecologist From Ed Moulton, Malheur Refuge Maintenance Supervisor: “The water coming in from the north has slowed and the evacuation levels
In the words of retired wildlife biologist, Rick Roy, looking at the CCP for the Refuge is very much like asking “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and subsequently what are the objectives you are going to set to reach that goal? So, what do we, collectively, want the Refuge to look like and what will the objectives in the CCP look like to get us there?
