People+Plants+Wildlife

It’s that time of year: baby (and, by now, adolescent) birds everywhere, including this duckling that naturalist Neal Maine spotted standing on a lily pad in a Clatsop Plains dune swale lake in May. Over the years lots of young

Ethan Whitecotton, NCLC’s summer photo archive intern, is spending most of his time with us at the computer, cleaning up and adding to our extensive photo archive (read more about him and our other summer interns here). He is also

NCLC supporter Jeff Roehm has shared another  essay with us, this one about a project that naturalist and NCLC founding executive director Neal Maine dreamed up to estimate how many years it will take for one of the big Sitka spruces

You may have seen Neal Maine’s spectacular nature photography on display at Fairweather House and Gallery in Seaside; you might even have one of his framed photos hanging in your home. Fairweather generously donates proceeds from the sale of these

The vast majority of people in this country do all their wildlife-watching on TV. Residents and visitors to Oregon’s North Coast have the opportunity to do it live, in person, any day of the week. Bald eagles, for instance: they