Oregon Field Guide
Rewilding the Elwha River
It’s been over a decade since two dams came out of the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Now, salmon are returning, cougars, elk, foxes and bears roam 800 acres of newly restored land, and the river runs wild, tearing up the road that ran along its banks.
Latest Stories
Searching for the quietest place in Oregon
Where to escape the leaf blowers, car alarms and revving engines that plague modern life? A study conducted for the Noise Control Engineering Journal identified candidates for the quietest places in Oregon, but you’ll need an expedition mindset to reach them.
People of Color Outdoors cultivates community by leading outside gatherings
Portland group helps BIPOC communities strengthen their connection to nature.
Klamath Tribes push to restore wetlands and wocus in Southern Oregon
For thousands of years, the Klamath Tribes have harvested a highly nutritious first food called wocus from the wetlands of Southern Oregon. As wetlands were drained for agriculture, the tribes lost a huge portion of the habitat supporting the wocus plant. Now, there’s hope that farmers can help bring that habitat back.
Urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River
Longtime advocate Mike Houck reflects on a career of restoring nature in Portland while taking "Oregon Field Guide" on an urban safari to track the lifecycle of the great blue heron.
Dog-like robots train in Northwest caves to sniff out life on Mars
NASA scientists test autonomous dog-like robots in Northern California caves in preparation for future missions to Mars.
This year’s most uplifting stories from ‘Oregon Field Guide’ and ‘All Science. No Fiction.’
"Oregon Field Guide" end-of-year wrap of feel-good stories.
Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ offers a life-saving lift to a struggling species
Red-legged frogs cross a busy Portland highway with help from the “Frog Taxi.”
Adventure cats blaze new trails in Oregon’s great outdoors
Felines are evolving from neighborhood prowlers to adventure partners — on forest trails and even on the water.
It’s a long shot, but for this Oregon archer breaking an ‘unbeatable’ record has an irresistible draw
Beaverton's Alan Case, a long-distance archer, is on a quest to shoot an arrow farther than anyone else in history.
A mysterious, rare bog is full of surprises on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Crowberry Bog on the Olympic Peninsula is like no other place in Washington. It’s a raised bog that sits like an inflated bladder above the surrounding forest — the first of its kind to be identified in the Western U.S. outside of Alaska.
