SAVING THE OREGON SILVERSPOT: Researchers focus on meadows south of Yachats trying to unravel mysteries of threatened butterfly and its habitat
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Erica Henry carefully lifts the netting from the side of the small, improvised tent and squirms underneath. Once partly inside, she begins to poke among the grasses and tiny, wild violets in search of rare caterpillars transplanted weeks earlier from a special breeding program at the Oregon Zoo. That caterpillar carries the hopes and efforts of
