What's Up Willamette: Wildlife

The spring of 2006 brought exciting times to the Western pond turtle nursery at Elijah Bristow State Park southeast of Eugene. Last year, biologist Lisa Riley, whose reputation as a turtle tracker has grown along with the park's identity as a prime breeding ground, discovered 12 nests in the park.

Willamette BiOp February 2013: See findings from research on juvenile salmon passage at several Willamette Basin federal dams, adult fish spawning success, bull trout reintroduction, lamprey research and moreabstracts from the annual Willamette Basin Fisheries Science Review. Link to abstracts here.

The recent acquisition of Coyote Creek near Eugene, Ore., will enable Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to engage in habitat restoration work for the benefit of numerous fish, wildlife and plant species, including the Northern red-legged frog.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Within a few hours of opening the Minto Fish Collection Facility's entrance gate on April 1, the first winter steelhead had made its way through the facility and back into the North Santiam River below Big Cliff and Detroit dams. It's no joke: Project manager Chris Budai opened the Minto Fish Collection Facility's entrance gate April 1 at 11 a.m.

An invasive South American creeping water primrose is wreaking havoc at a Eugene park that the city and other government agencies have spent $9 million trying to turn into a showcase of native-species ecological restoration. Known as Ludwigia hexapetala, the aquatic weed has grown densely and rapidly in the past several years at Delta Ponds just north of Valley River Center.

Originally published July 14, 2013 at 8:02 PM | Page modified July 15, 2013 at 12:07 AM Why they matter Uploaded to YouTube by TheCRITFC They are older than dinosaurs, older than salmon. Around for an astounding 450 million years, Pacific lamprey have been feeding the native people and landscape of the Northwest for millennia.