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| Storm watchers at a viewing area, right, are dwarfed as a massive wave crashes against rocks at Shore Acres State Park near Charleston on the south coast of Oregon on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. The National Weather Service has issued a high surf warning for Oregon with powerful west swell predicted to create breakers of 28 to 32 feet through Monday afternoon. |
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| My trail camera had a visit from an beautiful bob cat in a remote area near Elkton in western Oregon last night. I'll be placing the camera in the same spot again and hopefully capture the graceful creature on video. |
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| An American robin pulls a worm out of the ground in a pasture on a farm near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2018. |
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| A western red-backed salamander climbs on a moss covered log on a damp forested hillside near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. |
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| A northern harrier hawk lifts off from a field clutching a gopher it caught while hunting near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Parts of Europe and Asia have several kinds of harriers, but North America has only one; the northern harrier. |
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Each year the state of Oregon provides two landowner tags to the ranch for the taking of cow elk. The Landowner Preference Program was established to acknowledge the contribution of private lands to support wildlife and provide a form of compensation to landowners for resources used by wildlife. Lily the border collie is not so sure she approves. |
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| A small mushroom grows on a decaying log on a damp forested hillside near Elkton in western Oregon on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. |
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| The fall and winter bring rain and cool temperatures to this part of the Pacific Northwest. |
