The water and brine shrimp in Lake Abert in South Central Oregon provide a critical feeding stopover for up to 83,000 migratory birds like ducks, geese and shorebirds each year on the Pacific Flyway ...

Lake Abert, a remote saltwater lake in Oregon's high desert, is disappearing, driving away thousands of migratory birds and killing brine shrimp, one of the only creatures hearty enough to tolerate ...

Sometimes, winter in the forest can seem like there isn’t much going on – especially if, like me, you might be out there with a group of 60 excited schoolchildren. Wildlife often make themselves ...

A new program aimed at improving the health of imperiled salt lakes across the American West is moving forward, thanks to legislation passed by Congress this week. Saline lakes are vitally important ...

When Oregon’s only saltwater lake mysteriously dried up in 2014, turning a vibrant landscape teeming with migratory birds into a desiccated, abandoned salt pan, state environmental regulators ...

TÂ he scurrying and scratching sounds high in the ponderosa pine canopy betrays the mating activities of one of Boulder County’s most alluring mammals, the Abert’s squirrel. In April and May, male ...

As an eighth-grader, Colin Abert broke 5 minutes in the mile run for the first time. “Someone asked me, ‘What’s next?'” Abert recalled. “And I told’em I’d try to break the 4-minute mark. At that point ...

Sad news crossed my desk Wednesday. John Edward "Jack" Abert died earlier this week in Florida. Abert will forever be known in Syracuse music circles as the man who started rock band The Monterays, ...