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…
Category: Nature & Outdoors
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.
OIOpublisher 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…
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…
Announcing the winners of this season’s Oregon King Tide Photo Contest
NEWPORT – After receiving about 250 eligible submissions, the Oregon King Tides Project is excited to announce the winners of the winter 2021-2022 King Tides Photo Contest. The photo contest was sponsored by the Oregon Coast…
Forestry department to hold informational meeting March 18th; Sets comment period for fiscal year 2023 state forest activities – March 21 – May 5
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry is hosting a public informational meeting Friday, March 18, on annual operations plans for state-owned forests in fiscal year 2023. These plans lay out on-the-ground…
Lower Nehalem Watershed Council Speaker Series: Virtual Presentation-The Role of Red Alder in the Oregon Coast Range March 10th
On March 10th, 2022 Andrew Bluhm, OSU’s Associate Program Director of the Hardwood Silviculture Cooperative will provide new insight into a common tree in the Nehalem Watershed, the Red Alder. This presentation will…