Dogs inhabit a world of olfactory sensations of which humans barely understand. So one of the first principles of detection dog training is that a dog is never corrected or punished for mistakes. That’s because the handler can never be too sure that the dog is actually wrong. Just because the handler can’t see whatever [...]
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I just returned from a trip to southeastern Oregon with ODFW wildlife biologists Tim Hiller and Scott Torland. We were there to pick up 17 trail cameras we placed in the high desert last November in an effort to detect kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis). The kit fox is the most elusive canid in the state [...]
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OWI was awarded a 5-year agreement to partner with the Interagency Special Status/Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP). ISSSSP’s mission is the conservation and management of rare species in the Pacific Northwest, and is administered by the Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon/Washington State Office of the Bureau of Land Management. OWI will work [...]
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I went out to the Dunn Forest purple martin colony for one final evening check last week. I didn’t see a single martin or even a violet-green swallow along Tampico Road or the clearcut where we had been observing them all summer. The dogs and I then headed up the hill on the 200 Road [...]
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After many months in development, the new OWI site is finally launched. Dan, Jen, and Dave wish to thank Kelly Wildman for all of her efforts in getting it up and running, as well as for her patience with all of our questions as we novices learn to administer a WordPress site. Our primary goal [...]
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