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Prioritizing areas for post-fire restoration in Greece using mixed-methods spatial analysis
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Palenova E, Veraverbeke S, Drobyshev I, Kontos T, Ebert K (2026) Prioritizing areas for post-fire restoration in Greece using mixed-methods spatial analysis. PLoS One 21(1): e0339998.
'Mistake' lottery ticket nets Central Point man $7 million
Charles Svitak, a graveyard shift worker from Central Point, won $7.3 million after rethinking his decision to decline a mistakenly printed Megabucks lottery ticket, the Oregon Lottery said Thursday. Svitak came to the 7-Eleven on Front Street in Central Point to buy a lottery ticket on Saturday, June 16. The clerk told him there were two lottery tickets that had been printed mistakenly, and Svitak bought one of them.
Oregon Zoo's Family Farm offers hands-on experience
Meet the stars of "Tiny Goat Visits" -- Animals from the Oregon Zoo's Family Farm, where besides eight pygmy and pygora goats, chickens and rabbits also live. Visitors can feed and care for the animals on Saturdays. -- Elena Palenova
New octopus is on candid OctoCam at Newport center
The tank in the visitor area of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center is home to a new octopus. A new octopus, a 9-pound female, has been on exhibit and star of the “OctoCam” since June 8. “This is a perfect-sized animal to grow into its habitat in the visitor center,” said Timothy Miller-Morgan, an extension veterinarian at the center. Montgomery, the former octopus resident, was released back to the wild earlier this month.
New octopus is on candid OctoCam at Newport center
The tank in the visitor area of Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center is home to a new octopus. A new octopus, a 9-pound female, has been on exhibit and star of the "OctoCam" since June 8. "This is a perfect sized animal to grow into its habitat in the visitor center," said Timothy Miller-Morgan, an extension veterinarian at the center. Montgomery, the former octopus resident, was released back to the wild earlier this month.
And baby mountain goat makes two, at the Oregon Zoo
The mountain goat herd at the Oregon Zoo is growing again. For only the second time in 15 years, a baby mountain goat was born at the zoo. New mom Montane gave birth Friday. Just a month ago, Montane's herdmate Sassy gave birth to Finnegan. Visitors can see the 3-day-old goat at the zoo's Cascade Crest habitat just past the zoo's main entrance. "Montane and baby are both doing really well.
What was 'mysterious wolf-like hybrid' killed in Montana? A wolf
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service forensic laboratory in Ashland has identified a mysterious wolf-like creature killed in Montana in May as a gray wolf. According to a Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks report last week, "the individual represented by LAB-1, LAB-2 and LAB-3 was a female gray wolf from the Northern Rocky Mountains (Canis lupus)." The department published the DNA results of the animal's tissues.
Here are 11 common sea stars (starfish) found on Oregon's coast
By Elena Palenova | The Oregonian/OregonLive | Posted June 16, 2018 at 04:50 AM Sea stars, also known colloquially as starfish, have rebounded on Oregon's coast from a wasting disease that wiped out great numbers. Scientists still aren't sure what caused the disease. Visitors may see any of these 10 most common varieties found on Oregon beaches.
Sea stars abound on Oregon coast after recovery from wasting disease
Sea stars, popularly known as starfish, are back. The population is rebounding quickly along the Oregon coast after almost complete extinction four years ago. An unknown wasting disease killed up to 90 percent of the starfish population on the West coast from Alaska to Mexico. Scientists say the disease is not gone entirely.
Cougar spotted at Powell Butte Nature Park in SE Portland
Kenton Wiens had never seen a cougar - until Sunday afternoon, when one bounded up onto the trail where he was mountain biking in Powell Butte Nature Park in Southeast Portland. The Mt. Tabor resident was alone about 3 p.m. on the Mountain View Trail, about 100 yards from the hard right turn that that trail makes from south to west, when the cougar bounded up onto the trail about 40 yards in front of him, he said.
Oregon lab investigating mysterious wolf-like creature
When specialists saw the animal, they noticed it was not a purebred wolf. The agency released some information about the animal, saying the animal "was a young, non-lactating female and a canid, a member of the dog family, which includes dogs, foxes, coyotes and wolves." However, officials said, its "teeth were too short, the front paws too small and the claws on the front paw were too long" to be a wolf.
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