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Highway 101 south of Port Orford is open with minimal to no delays. The “Arizona Slide” that occurred in early January 2023 briefly closed the road, but it reopened to traffic later that month. While work on the road continues, vacationers will find passage open to vehicles, including RVs, with […]
STORY BY JENNIFER GERVAIS Gray whales travel twice a year between their summer feeding grounds in Alaska and the warm lagoons of the Baja Peninsula, passing close to the Oregon coast along the way. They pass in large numbers during the darkest days of December, prompting crowds to brave the […]
In 2013 and 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome caused a mass die-off of sea stars along the Pacific Coast. Near-unidentifiable gelatinous bulks, the remnants of stars having fallen to wasting, littered the seafloor. One of Oregon’s keystone species, the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), was decimated, and is now listed […]