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We are in Trentham, Victoria Australia visiting our oldest daughter and granddaughter. Two nights ago we got to view the Aurora australis. It was a pretty good show for the little bit we were out viewing it. Here’s a cell phone shot from the end of the lane where she lives.

I posted a photo in the hunting pics thread of my daughter with a banded Canada goose she had recently harvested. The bird was locally banded at a state wildlife area I used to manage. While I was gainfully employed, we banded westerns throughout NE California and the Oregon Klamath Basin each...

Brian - I checked with my daughter and she said the bird was banded as a hatch year (young of the year) in 2024 at Butte Valley Wildlife Area which is about 20 air miles away from where she harvested it. This is not at all unusual - western Canada geese tend to be non migratory. I found some...

Our youngest daughter Jess and her hubby went waterfowl hunting at Klamath Basin NWR a few days ago. Not only did she harvest her first ever Canada goose - it was also banded!

The Unconquered, In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace I first read this book after hearing an interview of the author several years ago on NPR. Wallace (who was on assignment for National Geographic) joins explorer Sydney Possuelo (who was the first director of...

This is not at all intended to be a political and I'm not sure about the Seattle Forecast Office but the National Weather Service underwent some severe staffing reductions this past spring. I know the Sacramento California FO no longer has 24/7 staffing which seems crazy to me. There was a...

Scott - I agree that the idea of cutting down a nest tree sounds horrific. The no brainer was to close the trail but at the time, that was something the park was hoping to avoid given the time from incubation to fledging would be during the peak of the visitor season. The Chief of Resources...

Scott's post reminded me that for part of one summer while I was there, the Park Service had to close the Four Mile Trail between Yosemite Valley and Glacier Point due to its proximity to a goshawk nest. A hiker sustained minor injuries when a dive bombing goshawk impaled her scalp with its...

I've been fortunate to have had several goshawk sightings over the years but almost never when I am looking for them. When I worked for NPS in Tuolumne Meadows/Yosemite, we had a neighborhood goshawk that regularly nabbed stellar jays out of our employee residential compound (elevation 8000')...

Power has been out here for a couple hours. Here’s what North Lincoln Fire and Rescue is responding to:

I also have a buddy that's FFI certified in both spey and single hand casting instruction (charges the standard $60/lesson). I've had several from him (because I suck) and he's excellent. His place is in Nehalem but he may be agreeable to meeting elsewhere. He's obsessed about fly fishing and...

I can confirm Brian - we are getting hammered with heavy rain and strong winds around the Lincoln City Area. I drove into town a bit ago and had to maneuver around and over three downed trees across East Devils Lake Road. A first for me...

Here's the latest experimental Risk of Heavy Precipitation going out to December 24. Northern California and Southern Oregon have been dry for quite awhile but what we really need is snow in the Cascades. There's zero snow at the Crater Lake Visitor's Center - last year on this date there was 50".

I too had always heard that the term harvest had to do with the timing of when the fish returned to the rivers to spawn. I have always wondered about the term "blueback" and always kept an eye out for them. I had read bluebacks are the freshest in from the ocean fish and lose the blue within...

Cool video - thanks for sharing!

We had an office and staff at Lake Earl Wildlife Area near Crescent City which was within my area of responsibility. One of our scientific aids was an older guy who grew up in the area and hardcore fished for trophy cutthroat in the coastal lagoons. He told me he trolled a 6" rapala for the...

We are expecting 8"- 10" of precip between now and Wednesday evening with flood watches and warnings on the Oregon Coast. The Euro 16 day outlook is predicting nearly 18" though the GFS isn't quite as bullish during the same time period. It's definitely putting a damper on my cutthroat fishing...

I never really had a chance to target these lagoons other than occasionally as I only visited our Eureka office a few days a month. If I lived there - I would have been all over the coastal cutthroat scene. There are some real trophies in those lagoons. A little history: California does have...