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Darlingtonia

On the coast of Oregon lives the darlingtonia, also known as a pitcher or cobra plant. This meat-eating plant is specially designed to capture its insect prey. The best place to see these bizarre plants is at the Darlingtonia Wayside near Florence.

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Oregon Fossils

A report on recent finds in Oregon and the University of Oregon's Collection.

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Off-Shore Minerals

In 1990, the research ship Aloha set off to explore the sea bed off the coast of Gold Beach on the South Coast. The trip was meant to determine whether there were commercially valuable deposits of minerals, including gold, platinum and titanium, off the coast. Unexpectedly, Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior and a flotilla of local fishermen surrounded the boat to protest offshore mining. The expedition failed to find significant mineral deposits.

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Spotlighting Deer

Oregon's Blacktail deer are elusive and secretive. You would be lucky to see one during daylight hours, and that's why Fish and Game officials have adopted spotlight counting, during nighttime hours when the deer are at their most active. Learn more about the great Tilamook Brun which devastated the coastal forest, but was a boom the the Blacktail population. As the Forest has grown the Blacktails numbers have declined.

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