Written by Peter Pearsall/Photo illustration by Peter Pearsall, using photographs by Dan Streiffert The New World blackbird family, Icteridae, comprises familiar temperate species such as orioles, meadowlarks, grackles, and cowbirds,
During spring, watch for their impressive aerial courtship displays: pairs spiraling together, talons briefly clasped, then tumbling toward earth before separating.
The geographic range of redband trout in the interior West has not contracted noticeably. The density of stream habitats occupied has, however, been reduced. In Oregon, roughly 55% of the stream distance historically occupied in occupied today.
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photos by Dan Streiffert The ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) is the largest North American member of the genus Buteo, a cosmopolitan group of broad-winged raptors known as “buzzards”
Written by 2025 FOMR Biological Technician Lisa Leen/Photo of redside shiners by NPS/Rawhouser Fish Traps All four of the fish traps (Sodhouse, Busse, Grain Camp, and Page Springs) along the
