KLAMATH FALLS — A Harvard graduate student has brought a team of researchers to Upper Klamath Lake in Southern Oregon to try to figure out how grebes manage to walk on water.

In a vast and flat oak savannah outside Central Point lies a panoramic vista with Table Rock in the background. No house, road or power line is visible. Here is perhaps the only location in Jackson County where the valley floor appears as it did to the first European settlers in 1850 — a gently undulating landscape carpeted with calf-high wild grasses and dotted with white oaks and vernal pools.

Rogue Valley Manor's newest and youngest residents have commandeered a penthouse apartment for themselves, and Manor managers say they don't give a hoot.

Oregon wildlife managers want to maintain a stable black bear population and reduce human-bear conflicts, according to a new draft plan meant to guide management of one of the state's top predators.

Nesting season for the rare western snowy plover begins this month on the Oregon Coast, which means state and federal regulatory and land-management agencies will begin taking steps to help protect the endangered bird.

He's baaaaack.

Wandering wolf OR-7 is retracing his steps through Northern California and Tuesday was in howling distance of Southern Oregon.

Wildlife artists have a chance to make Oregon wildlife-viewing history — and a little cash — under a new program and contest that is under way.

A radio-collared wolf's historic journey across Oregon and Northern California now plays like a country song as he goes looking for love in all the wrong places while an important Valentine's Day looms.

For a few dives and a feast of fish, one lively group of river otters has turned little-known Ashland Pond into its favorite swimming hole.

WOOD RIVER VALLEY — John Stephenson stops his government-issued pickup on the shoulder of Highway 62 and assembles a hodgepodge of cutting-edge technology and 1970s gizmos he'll use on his quest to sneak a peek at Western Oregon wildlife history.

The wandering wolf known as OR-7 is "showing signs" of staking out a territory in the south Cascades east of Butte Falls, but it's too early to say whether he will end his historic and closely followed journey by setting up home there.

Wandering wolf OR-7 has meandered back into Jackson County, and his history-making travels from northeast Oregon have gone viral.

For someone who's worked with photo professionals for more than 30 years, I should be better at taking my own photographs. That said, I have learned a few things that have helped.

A wolf that split Sept. 10 from its northeast Oregon pack and is now wandering in southwest Oregon followed a path seemingly scripted from some Jack London knock-off documentary about how the first wolf in Western Oregon in 65 years might have gotten here.

"Coon" is certainly a four-letter word to Medford's Al Pratt, who is waging a war against a pack of urban raccoons that turn his backyard into a frat house.

JACKSON - Mourning doves can be found in open grain fields and roosting trees near water. They are fast-flying, graceful, wing-whistling birds that feed on small seeds and grains. A species that is similar but larger and is not a native of our area is the Eurasian collared dove. They are seen around residential areas and have known to visit bird feeders.

Oregonians looking for good places to see wildlife ranging from spawning salmon and Roosevelt elk to reptiles and bighorn sheep now can start their journey at their computer keyboard and finish them in the field.

The feds are looking for Bombus Franklini.

ASHLAND — Biologists, Southern Oregon University students and volunteers will attempt the first census of the burgeoning deer population in town.