
Bird’s-Eye View: Herons return to their rookeries for spring
Bird’s-Eye View: It might seem odd for such big birds to nest so closely together, but several benefits exist. By nesting in larger numbers, they help protect each other from predators.

Bird’s-Eye View: It might seem odd for such big birds to nest so closely together, but several benefits exist. By nesting in larger numbers, they help protect each other from predators.

Birds’-Eye View: The Bear Creek Community Bird Survey (BCCBS) has been an ongoing community science project for the past two years (2021-2022.)

Birds’-Eye View: KSON partners plan to restore 2,480 acres of oak habitat within the Little Butte Creek Watershed and Table Rocks using ecological thinning, prescribed fire, noxious weed abatement and native understory planting.

Birds’-Eye View: To help us tell the story of the Oregon Vesper Sparrow, we are premiering the short film “From the Field — A Study of the Oregon Vesper Sparrow” by Daniel Thiede from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, at Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve.

Birds’-Eye View: Ashland-based nonprofit Klamath Bird Observatory keeps on eye on bird life in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion of southern Oregon and northern California. Since birds are a key indicator species and migratory paths from much of the Western Hemisphere pass through this area, KBO data helps inform natural resource management on a broad scale.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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