OIOpublisher CLACKAMAS, Ore.—Portions of the mainstem Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam are closing to all salmon fishing due to higher than anticipated catch rates of ESA-listed lower river tule Chinook. Effective…
Category: Environment
Join Tillamook Estuaries Partnership’s Clean Water Team – SAND LAKE VOLUNTEER(S) NEEDED
(Tillamook County, OR ) – You can be part of a citizen science team that has been monitoring the bays, rivers, and creeks of Tillamook County since 1997. Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP)…
Celebrating the Bounty of the Bays with Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) – THE BEAUTY OF SAND LAKE
(Tillamook County, OR ) – Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) is raising awareness about our local bays as we approach National Estuaries Week, September 18-25. Each week, a different estuary will be profiled on…
Sitka Center Youth Arts Program – Summer Workshops “What We Do Matters!” Combine Science, Art, Outdoors & More
By Leeauna Perry, Youth Program Coordinator, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology OTIS, OR – August 13, 2021 – Beginning in early July nearly 110 Pre-K through 8th grade students engaged in…
FUN FACTS ABOUT NEHALEM BAY
(Tillamook County, OR ) – Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) is raising awareness about our local bays as we approach National Estuaries Week, September 18-25. Each week, a different estuary will be profiled….
Buoy 10 fishery closed to Chinook salmon retention starting Friday, Aug. 27
CLACKAMAS, Ore.—Chinook salmon retention on the Columbia River from the Buoy 10 line upstream to the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line will close effective Friday, Aug. 27. State fishery managers from Oregon and Washington made the…
OUTBACK WITH BACKMAN: Navigating the Back Country
EDITOR’S NOTE: As more and more folks are venturing into the great outback, here’s an article to bookmark. Hiking enthusiast Don Backman reviews the top hiking apps and navigation tools, as well…
Tillamook County Sheriff Office Deputies, Search & Rescue Assist Separated Hikers Friday, Saturday Aug.20-21
Tillamook County Sheriff Office Deputies and Search and Rescue (SAR) Team members were called out Friday night August 20th at 9:00 pm for a report of two lost hikers in the area…
Most of Oregon under air quality advisory due to wildfire smoke and ozone through Monday Aug. 16
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Southwest Clean Air Agency and Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued and extended air quality advisories Friday for many parts of Oregon due to smoke from fires in…
MOTOR VEHICLES, CAMPFIRES BANNED ON EASTERN PORTION OF TILLAMOOK STATE FOREST DUE TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER
FOREST GROVE, Ore. — With fire danger rising across northwest Oregon, use of motorized vehicles and all campfires will be prohibited on the eastern portion of the Tillamook State Forest and state…