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Article: Going with the flow.(Environment)(River guardians keep a close eye on the constantly changing Willamette and its wildlife)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2006
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Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard
Two mergansers - sleek white bodies and dark heads - skimmed the surface of the Willamette River as Barbara May put her drift boat into the water at Whitely Boat Ramp.
It was a cloudy midweek morning, but May was confident there would be no rain. There would be birds, though, plenty of them on this six-mile stretch of the river.
"You won't see one heron nest, you'll see lots," she said as she angled her boat out into a side channel. To say nothing of bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, osprey, turkey vultures, various ducks, flickers, nuthatches, swallows, and if we were lucky, the odd beaver, mink or river ...