by Meg | Jul 7, 2014 | Around PDX, Environmental Impact, wildlife
I’m not sure if all of you are aware of the fabulous work the Oregon Zoo does with local endangered species but if not you should definitely go read up on their work with Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits, Oregon spotted frog, Western pond turtle, Taylor’s...
by Meg | Jul 5, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Sustainable seafood
Of the 13 MSC certified species from the west coast groundfish trawl fishery, six of these are rockfish. Chilipepper rockfish, splitnose rockfish, widow rockfish, yellowtail rockfish, longspine thornyhead, and shortspine thornyhead were all previously listed as...
by Meg | Jun 25, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Internship, Sustainable seafood
Nothing screams summer like sitting outside and enjoying a nice piece of freshly grilled fish or cracking open a steaming Dungeness crab. With summer beginning tomorrow, we have decided to kick off our first ever PDXSeafood Sustainable Seafood Miniseries! In honor of...
by Meg | Jun 12, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Sustainable seafood
Katherine and I have been kicking off the PDXSeafood program for its second summer! We’ve been super busy getting the facebook page up and running, a twitter account, and starting our outreach to more restaurants. (You can tell an interns going to be awesome...
by Meg | May 20, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Internship, Science, Sustainable seafood, wildlife
Diana and I are excited to kick off another season of recruiting restaurants to the PDXSeafood program – it’s been slow going but we’ve contributed this to our inability to make face-to-face contact with Portland restaurants. This year we wizened up...
by Meg | May 16, 2014 | animal, Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News
So tomorrow is endangered species day and in case you want to celebrate all the imperiled species out there here are links to events in the Portland area: The Oregon Zoo (of course) will be celebrating some of our international (think Orangs and Wild Dogs) and...
by Meg | May 12, 2014 | Around PDX, Education, wildlife
I saw this opportunity about learning how to track wildlife on Metro and thought I’d share it since Nate and I were thinking of making this into a “date night”. Basically, you spend one night in a brew pub learning the process and then you go and...
by Meg | May 8, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, wildlife
This month is dedicated to National Wetlands so go out an explore these wetlands found in the Portland Area. Smith and Bybee Wetlands – The largest protected wetlands within an American city. This area also has one of the largest remaining populations of Western...
by Meg | Apr 1, 2014 | Around PDX, Environmental Impact, Science
This isn’t related to animal conservation per se but since it’s gardening season and I’m associated with the Oregon Zoo I thought it would be great to plug OZ’s Zoo Doo program. Basically the zoo composts the ungulate feces, hay, and excess...
by Meg | Mar 24, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
As we were gearing up for the next PDXSeafood season (hiring new interns and planning our outreach activities) we came across Oceana’s new by-catch report. It’s pretty alarming and the estimates for US by-catch is sobering to say the least: United States...
