Oregon semaphore grass is among the rarest grasses in the United States and it has only a handful of naturally occurring populations in Eastern Oregon. Due to the rarity of this grass, and due to habitat loss, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) began reintroduction efforts in the early 2000s.

This morning we got great news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have cancelled a proposal to kill hundreds of ravens in Baker County in Northeastern Oregon.

On a cold day in October, Portland Audubon’s Eastern Oregon Field Coordinator Teresa Wicks, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge’s Wildlife Biologist Alexa Martinez, and local volunteers Rick Vetter and Joan Suther concluded the 2019 Malheur Lake shorebird surveys.