The night also highlighted how much teamwork goes into a successful banding operation. Of the 23 people involved, four were first-time participants, including Friends of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge’s Conservation Stewardship Technician, Ian Snyder.
Together, the emergence counts and acoustic surveys provide an important look at bat activity around Refuge Headquarters. They help Friends of Malheur better understand how these historic buildings are being used, and they offer a foundation for future stewardship of both the buildings and the wildlife that depend on them.
Rhonda learned how to make Tule ducks from Elise, and now they are both passing their culture and knowledge to the younger generation. Rhonda said, “Tule ducks are connection to the past and were used for survival.”
Written by Darrick Boschmann, Oregon Water Resources Department Hydrogeologist/Photo by Alan Nyiri Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) staff have been measuring groundwater levels in the Harney Basin at least as
My guess is that it’s because birds sharpen our perception and remap our attention onto the soft fascination of the natural world. Birds make the ordinary extraordinary: the invisible visible. They move between worlds we can’t, slipping between earth and sky, land and water, expanding our imaginations.
