A northern long-eared bat with white nose syndrome. (Steve Taylor, University of Illinois/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) State wildlife experts have stepped up efforts to fight a deadly fungal disease that has infected over half the nation’s bat species and, on Tuesday, put one on the endangered species list.  But,[Read More…]

A Cooper’s hawk photographed at Lake Owyhee State Park in eastern Oregon (Celeste Ramsay/Creative Commons) PENDLETON — The calls flooded into Blue Mountain Wildlife first thing in the morning Monday, June 28 — dozens of baby hawks, desperate to escape the blast of early summer heat, bailed from their nests[Read More…]