February 29, 2008 04:10 pm
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 It is certain that more sandhill cranes will be appearing at Ladd Marsh. Presently about two pairs are there, but within the next few weeks many more will arrive. Ladd Marsh often has 50 to 100 sandhill cranes in the spring, many of which can easily be seen at the Tule Lake Nature Area. - Photo/JIM WARD
Still, the hearts of excited wildlife viewers are zooming to rates of at least 120 beats a minute following the annual opening of Ladd Marsh’s Tule Lake Nature Area.
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February 22, 2008 03:52 pm
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 Skiers glide along a portion of the 25 kilometers of trails at the Meacham Divide Ski Area. - Submitted photos
So good that even a jackknifed semi truck on Interstate 84 could not keep the cross country skiing center from setting a record pace.
To date, 524 skiers have come to Meacham Divide. That’s 84 percent more than the number that had visited the area by this time year ago, when totals were first kept. This year’s total may be the highest in Meacham Divide’s 10-year history.
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February 08, 2008 04:24 pm
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 EUROPEAN STARLING: Starlings, numbering 3,364, were viewed during the Dec. 15 count. - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photos/LEE KARNEY
The Union County birding record book will be rewritten.
The reason? The success of the 32nd annual Union County Christmas Bird Count, the results of which be submitted to the National Audubon Society next week.
Seven records were set and one tied during the count.
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February 01, 2008 06:08 pm
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 Sage grouse - Photo/Ted Schroeder
No problem.
No problem if you want to participate in the 11th annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
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January 25, 2008 04:05 pm
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Kevin Costner visited Union County in the summer of 1990, but it is not known if the popular actor stopped at the Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area.
Still, a line from Costner’s 1989 hit movie, “Field of Dreams,” is being used informally by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to describe its draft plan for the Ladd Marsh’s next 10 years — “Build it and they will come.’’
The ODFW plan calls for the maintenance and enhancement of the marsh’s diversified wildlife habitat. This will attract even more wildlife to the marsh.
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January 11, 2008 04:59 pm
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 Dennis had come to the Anthony Creek feeding site of the Elkhorn Wildlife Area since at least 2000. The Rocky Mountain bull elk has not been seen this winter. - Submitted photos
Where is Dennis?
Dennis is a six-point bull elk that has visited the Elkhorn
Wildlife Viewing Area's Anthony Creek feeding site regularly for at
least eight years.
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December 21, 2007 04:48 pm
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 Photo/JIM WARD
Hunting, poaching, disease, and overgrazing — these were the
bighorn's killers, and in 1927 the Enterprise Record Chieftain reported
that Wallowa County contained the last wild sheep in Oregon.
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December 14, 2007 03:36 pm
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 Members of the La Grande Sno-Drifters assemble their club's new log cabin in October. Those working, left to right, are Mitch Williams, Nick Milner and Scott Wilde. - Photo/GREG BLACKMAN
Snowmobiles, cross country skis and snowshoes instead are your passes.
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December 07, 2007 03:11 pm
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 Todd Erickson, left, of McMinnville took this elk in north Wallowa County in November. The bull's green score of 398 for non-typical antlers means it might be the third best in state history in its category. Erickson is shown with his son T.J., who accompanied him on the hunt. - Photo/JON WICK
Erickson had reason to be drained. The McMinnville man had just
completed two climbs — one up a steep canyon and another up the
all-time state elk hunting list.
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November 30, 2007 12:00 am
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 This is how one of the buildings that was part of the old Union fish hatchery complex looked when the facility was operating from the early 1920s to 1937 - Photo courtesy of Jerry Gildemeister and from the Dick Bonney collection
No obvious evidence exists indicating that the structures were once linked to a violent chapter in Union's history.
The tale begins in the early 1920s when the buildings were
constructed for a new state fish hatchery. Trout were raised there and
then stocked in area streams and high mountain lakes in the Wallowas.
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