Biologist Justine Brumm stood on the side of U.S. Highway 30, waiting to cross. Scanning the horizon in both directions, an opportunity finally appeared. “After this one,” Brumm said. The car whipped ...
PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the imperiled North Oregon Coast population of red tree voles. The voles spend most of ...
The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast old-growth habitat to logging and wildfire. Conservation groups are again going to ...