FOMR Volunteers

Volunteering; A New Experience

During the past several years, we have volunteered for a month each year at Refuge Headquarters, helping at Crane’s Nest Nature Store and taking on a few assignments around the Refuge such as checking signs along the trails and the Central Patrol Road (CPR), and helping with the annual highway clean-up near Frenchglen. This year, we enthusiastically agreed to be stationed at the far south end of the Refuge at the homesite of the former Pete French Ranch, now known as P Ranch.

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Refuge in Transition

Written by Suzanne Simons/ Photo by Dan Streiffert Flocks of birds and people disappear overnight. Tundra swans, snow geese, birders, volunteers. It’s disorienting. Squawking, raucous lines at the gift shop

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Warm Springs Canal Marsh

Light & Life

  Life & Light By Alice Elshoff Remember that line from the Emily Dickenson poem, “There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons” Well, there is sometimes a

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Malheur: Seeking Balance

By Julie Burchstead Cover: Avocets and Yellow-headed Blackbird in Marshall Pond by Julie Burchstead As a girl, growing up in NW Oregon, curious about all things nature, and appreciative of

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