Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Lenses reveal history, habitats, and meals Scientists from the University of California have demonstrated they can use isotopic analysis of the eye lenses of freshwater fish — including threatened and endangered salmon — to reveal a fish’s life history and what it ate along the way. They conducted their study, “Advancing diet reconstruction in fish eye lenses” based on field-based experiments in California’s Central Valley. Researchers say the study carries implications for managin...
SALEM: “We’re here to get a to do list from you and learn how to make you whole,” was the way District 21 State Representative Brian Clem opened Monday night’s virtual meeting of the Oregon House Special Committee on Wildlife Recovery. “We want to hear how you’re doing - unfiltered - from the ground,” he added. The response came in both verbal and written input from people affected by the Beachie Creek, Lionshead, Holiday Farm and Archie Creek Fires that destroyed large tracts of the state thi...
It was the dark early-morning hours of Feb. 13, 1911, and off the north coast of Oregon the gasoline-powered motor schooner Oshkosh was in serious trouble. The Oshkosh was a coastwise cargo ship, but it wasn’t much bigger than a large yacht. It was 89 feet long and rated at just 145 tons. It was also nearly brand new, built in 1909 at the Kruse and Banks Shipyard in North Bend. The little freighter was only about a year and a half old. It would not see two. The Oshkosh had left Tillamook Bay a...
