Mapping project aims to find top-priority spots for safer wildlife crossings - and not just for deer, elk PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As Oregonians hit the road for summer fun, wildlife officials are ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ_ Oregon's wildlife has evolved alongside fire, with many species adapted to periodic burns. However, the increasing intensity and frequency of wildfires, influenced by climate change ...

Since self-publishing “Nature of Bend: A Field Guide to Plants and Animals” in 2016, LeeAnn Kriegh has seen the guide around Central Oregon. She’s spotted it being carried with dog-eared pages in ...

Back in the 1970s, botanist Barbara Wilson found a fun way to pass the time during her daily 80-mile roundtrip commute from Iowa to Nebraska. “I saw roadkill,” she said. “I would pick up the best of ...

In all of Oregon’s natural areas, this would be a first. A proposed wildlife area in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon would be co-managed by state officials and the Confederated Tribes of the ...

Oregon’s mule deer management is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has announced plans to overhaul its traditional Wildlife ...

Oregon trails behind other Western states in implementing wildlife crossings to reduce animal-vehicle collisions. A bill passed in the 2025 legislative session aims to address policy and coordination ...

Less than a week after the Oregon State Police served search warrants on a southern Oregon zoo and wildlife park, authorities have begun moving animals from the property to provide them with better ...

BAKER COUNTY, Ore. — The snow falls heavy and builds to waist-deep drifts as the temperature hovers near 20 in Baker County. Across the refuge, a wildlife team daily stocks nine feeding stations along ...

A proposed wildlife crossing over I-5 in Southern Oregon would be the first over one of the nation’s busiest freeways. State transit officials are seeking federal infrastructure funding to build the ...