People+Plants+Wildlife

Back to the future: A glimpse of spring at the intersection of the wild and built environments

Posted on January 7, 2014

Gearhart nature photographer Neal Maine has been busy photographing bald eagles at Del Rey Beach and elk in the Neacoxie Creek corridor lately—which brought to mind this sequence of photos he shot last June off Del Rey Beach Road. This

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Bust Broom in Your Backyard

Posted on May 6, 2013

It’s hard not to notice all of the Scotch broom invading the north coast this time of year when the yellow flowers conspicuously dot the landscape. We now refer to the month of May as Broom Buster month, and during

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Why Floodplains Matter

Posted on November 20, 2012

We just had quite a doozy of a storm blow through the north coast yesterday!  Heavy rains met high winds to wreak havoc all up and down the coast.  Astoria clocked winds of 98 mph! Whew.  As reported in the Seaside Signal,

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