Wildlife

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about a gray wolf that was illegally killed in Southern Oregon.

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed shooting over 400,000 barred owls over the next 30 years in order to save endangered spotted owls.

We hear from a conservation organization about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent decision to protect wolverines as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has halted the use of spring-loaded traps that disperse cyanide powder to kill coyotes and other livestock predators

Tufted puffin populations are in decline on the Oregon Coast. Last summer, the colony count was the lowest it had ever been since U.S. Fish and Wildlife began monitoring.

The beaver’s mysterious appearance set off a chain reaction of human interventions.

Many thousands of cormorant birds were driven away from East Sand Island near the mouth of the Columbia River decades ago in an effort to protect the fish. Now the roughly 10,000 cormorants that make their home on the Astoria-Megler bridge are a problem.

OPB’s Paul Marshall spoke with Quinn Read, the director of conservation at Portland Audubon, about the owl’s rare appearance.

Federal leaders are considering bringing grizzly bears back to the North Cascades. Some Northwest tribes say doing that would restore harmony to areas where their ancestors lived.