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Article: SEA OTTER SIGHTING RAISES STIR, QUESTIONS.(City/Region)(Some biologists prefer the rare sightings be kept quiet)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2009
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - The confirmed sighting of a sea otter in Depoe Bay last month generated wild excitement. The species, after all, was thought to have been extinct in Oregon for a century - even by wildlife experts.
But the creature seen lolling in the surf as he munched on a crab wasn't actually the first confirmed sighting in 103 years. It was just the first one about which the media went and blabbed all over tarnation.
The people who knew about previous otter sightings had kept their mouths shut.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife biologist Roy Lowe knew sea otters had resurfaced in Oregon from time to time, ...