Environment - Page 10

By MOLLY ROSBACH/OSU News Service NEWPORT — Fish exposed to some pesticides at extremely low concentrations for a brief period of time can demonstrate lasting behavioral changes, with the impact extending to offspring that were never exposed firsthand, a recent study found. The findings raise concerns not just for fish, but for all vertebrates that are exposed to commonly

By JULE GILFILLAN/Oregon Public Broadcasting On a summer day nearly two years ago, a team of researchers from Portland State University made their way upriver from chilly, salty Siletz Bay to the fresher, warmer waters of the Siletz River. They were retrieving traps set earlier to see whether invasive European green crabs were finding comfy habitats in places the

FLORENCE — The western snowy plover, a small shorebird on the government’s list of threatened species, is regaining 50 acres of open sand habitat eight miles south of Florence. The Siuslaw National Forest has started work on its largest plover habitat restoration project by using heavy equipment to remove vegetation along the beach between the Siltcoos River and the

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews A colony of horseshoe crabs struggling to survive in New Jersey’s coastal waters. Five French Polynesian surfers sharing their perceptions of the ocean. The effects of climate change on the planet’s most remote locations. Films on these just these three respective topics would make a full evening of fascinating viewing. In fact, however, they barely scratch

By BRIAN BULL/Underscore News FLORENCE — Standing in the midst of an uneven, muddy expanse where excavators and trucks chug back and forth like giant doodlebugs, Jesse Beers doesn’t exactly look as if he’s surrounded by a dream. But for Beers and many other members of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians on the Oregon