On Friday April 15, 2022, the Seaside Aquarium had the pleasure of rescuing this feisty beaver. First reported as a sea otter, it took us a few trips up and down the…
Category: Nature & Outdoors
Friends of Netarts Bay Request for Proposals for Design Project
Friends of Netarts Bay Watershed, Estuary, Beach, and Sea – WEBS (@netartsbaywebs) is looking for a creative team to help get their next project off the ground. WEBS is working with local…
Facilities and Trails Listening Sessions
Dan Haag, Trails & Outdoor Recreation Coordinator for Tillamook County Visitors Association, is hosting four listening and engagement sessions throughout Tillamook County in late April and early May. These sessions seek to gather community…
A Yearly Cycle: Native Plants – Skunk Cabbage and Oregon Grape
By Barbara McLaughlin Skunk Cabbage It seems to me that in some years certain plants are more abundant than in other years. Last summer for example seemed to be a bustin’ berry…
It’s Seal Pupping Season: Important reminder – Leave pups (or any marine mammal) found on the beach alone; contact their local marine mammal stranding network.
Who: Seaside Aquarium What: Seal Pup Season When: April through September Where: Oregon and Washington Coasts Fuzzy, plump and cute enough to squeeze, newborn harbor seal season is in full swing. While their big…
A yearly cycle: What’s going on outside? Spring and Frogs
EDITOR’S NOTE: Join me in welcoming another wonderful guest columnist to the Pioneer, Barbara McLaughlin! A local gardener and community organizer, and wife of another Pioneer story-teller, Charles “Chuck” McLaughlin, Barbara will…
Two kayak launchers installed, four more beach wheelchairs arriving by June
March 18, 2022. As part of its destination management plan developed in 2019, Tillamook Coast Visitors Association (TCVA) has been working with nonprofits and local agencies to increase outdoor access for more…
It’s Snowy Plover Season! Give Them Space – Protect Threatened Shorebird, Respect Nesting Areas March 15 – Sept. 15
Salem, OR—Beachgoers are urged to help recovery efforts of the threatened western snowy plover by staying on the wet sand at snowy plover beaches during nesting season, March 15 – Sept. 15. Beachgoers will…
Nehalem Bay Estuary Cleanup Volunteers Cover the Banks of the Estuary to Cleanup Debris March 5th
Story & Photos by Don Backman “I stopped counting after 75 people this morning,” Ben Pettinger, Executive Director of the Lower Nehalem Community Trust said. He was referencing the large excited group…
Seaside Aquarium Recovers Live Snake Eel, Rarely Seen in Oregon on Sunday, March 6th, 2022 from Rockaway Beach, Oregon
it was a busy weekend for Seaside Aquarium with a successful “Treasure the Beach” cleanup on Saturday, a beaver rescue and then a rare snake eel in Rockaway! Israel Knight was vacationing…
