In 1974 at California's Big Basin Redwood State Park, the marbled murrelet — the “enigma of the Pacific” — won the distinction of being the last bird species in the United States to have its nesting ...

PORT ANGELES — The state Board of Natural Resources, including Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire, is considering long-term conservation strategies for the threatened marbled murrelet. Five ...

Rich McIntosh/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service After a deadlocked 3-3 vote, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-2 Friday to elevate the marbled murrelet from a "threatened" species to ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include a response from the Marbled Murrelet Coalition. The state Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday adopted a long-term conservation plan for the ...

SALEM, Ore.— The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved a petition filed by five conservation groups to give marbled murrelets more protection by reclassifying them from threatened to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Citing two factors that threaten their existence, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to move the marbled murrelet to the state’s Endangered Species list. The ...

On the Pacific Northwest Coast, rocky beaches blend into dense old growth forests shadowed in a thick misty veil. Here lives one of the most enigmatic seabirds of this region, whose breeding behavior ...

PORT ANGELES — Several West End officials have expressed concerns about what the preferred alternative for the Marbled Murrelet Long-Term Conservation Strategy means financially for the most rural ...

On the Pacific Northwest Coast, rocky beaches blend into dense old growth forests shadowed in a thick misty veil. Here lives one of the most enigmatic seabirds of this region, whose breeding behavior ...

Kim Nelson, a wildlife biologist from the university and one of the lead investigators, arranges instruments necessary to perform an onboard surgery: calipers, pliers, needles, thread, rulers, a small ...

A seabird that depends on coastal old-growth forests has been designated for greater endangered-species protections in Oregon. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Friday to reclassify the ...