Oregon's state parks offer excellent alternatives to the popular and crowded Crater Lake National Park. Cape Arago, Cape Lookout, and Devils Punchbowl State Parks offer stunning coastal views and ...

Photographer and wildlife biologist Kelly Warren likes to be where the flocks are, and he says Baskett Slough is one of four easy-to-reach U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuges in the Willamette Valley that ...

Owners of private land included in the expansion plan would first have to agree to sell or donate their property to the federal government.

Trained volunteers will be stationed at 15 sites on the Oregon Coast during Winter Whale Watch Week to help visitors spot ...

For the first time in more than 60 years, Maryland has a new national wildlife refuge. The Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge, announced recently by federal officials ...

But picking the perfect place to spot whales isn’t simple. Luckily, Oregon’s state parks department offers Winter Whale Watch Week Friday through Tuesday. Trained volunteers will be stationed ...

Winter whale watching returns to the Oregon coast this week. Oregon’s two official whale watch events – winter and spring – follow the migration of gray whales. In the winter, the whales ...

Upward of 20,000 gray whales are expected to swim past Oregon ... Winter Whale Watch Week provides an opportunity to see not only the gray whales but other coastal wildlife including birds ...