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I'm a big Pelican fan (I have two) ... Pros: Made in the USA, lifetime warranty, incredible ice retention. Cons: they are heavy (30 qt weighs 21 pounds)

Long range forecasting is based on mathematical models and nothing more. As a one of my former colleagues (who was a duck population guy) used to say - "all models are flawed, some models are useful".

I was in my senior year at San Jose State. The day after the eruption started, I ditched classes, jumped in my 68 Fiat 124 sedan and started driving north. About 8 1/2 hours later - I was somewhere between Bend and Madras Oregon on 97 and could clearly see the plume. I pulled off and watched...

Trolling for springers at the mouth of Nestucca Bay this past week.

Thanks for that Dave - and apologies for hijacking your thread. Your lake has been on the same path as my lake - Devils Lake on the Oregon Coast. Aquatic weeds (Myriophyllum) then grass carp (in the 1980's) then the grass carp die off and weeds return. This time it was Elodea and the water...

I enjoyed the report - thanks for sharing! If the aquatic plant is Elodea (and it looks like it is), I hope it behaves itself. It can literally take over a lake and make it difficult to impossible to navigate around in water less than 8' deep.

We are running close to normal precip this current water year (since Oct 1) around Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast. This last little shot of left 1.43" in the bucket and was the first measurable rain for the month. The two medium range forecast models (GFS and Euro) are not at all in...

Stories like the one in the Washington Post are the kind that's driving meteorologists and climatologists crazy. Within the group I am a part of, there have been several discussion threads about how the media is treating (hyping) this event. The group felt that the article by Bob Henson (link...

There's been a lot of hype about the upcoming El Nino including articles predicting it may be the strongest on record. Bob Henson, one of the members of my weather geek Facebook group authored this excellent no hype discussion of what to expect. I think it's an outstanding summary of all...

Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting - Mark Twain was credited with this quote but I am not certain he was the source. It's never been more true than in the arid (and even not so arid) west. Having spent a fair amount of my career working with ranchers, water rights and fish...

We have .44" so far at our place near Lincoln City - it's our first measurable rainfall for the month of May. This morning's 16 day forecast models (out to 28 May) aren't exactly bullish on wet - between .90" and 1.50" for the period.

Or feral chihuahuas: https://www.nahf.org/article/wild-chihuahuas

Mother's Day hike near Lincoln City.

Devils Lake can be very trouty! Native coastal cuttrhoat time is in the fall and early winter. The planters take over in the spring though we still encounter the occasional cutthroat. The grandkids were here last week and had a fabulous time!

Anthropocene [an-thruh-puh-seen, an-throp-uh‐] / ˈæn θrə pəˌsin, ænˈθrɒp ə‐ / adjective noting or pertaining to a proposed epoch of the Quaternary Period, occurring in the present time, since mid-20th century, when human activity began to effect significant environmental...

I would need to see more of the anterior portion of the rockfish for a better guess but my first thought when I saw the image was quillback. I am not sure about the flatfish.

The view from our deck on Devils Lake of an anvil from a strong thunderstorm near Oakridge about 115 miles distant.

Swainson's hawks are way cool! They undergo an annual 12,000 mile migration to winter in the pampa's of Argentina. They are also mostly insect eaters which almost led to their undoing when pesticide use in Argentina killed about 20,000 birds in two years. A former colleague of mine (worked...

Here's a photo I copied from the Nestucca Bay NWR website for waterfowl hunters to help distinguish between the various spp/sub spp of white cheeked geese that occur on the refuge. It appears as if it was made prior to taxonomists breaking off cackling geese from Canada geese. To this day...

Hi Steve, The most common subspecies of cackling geese in the PNW from smallest to largest are cackler or Ridgway goose (minima), Aleutian and then Taverner's. You should also see lessers (Branta canadensis parvipes) which are in between a cackling and a Western Canada goose in size. There...