With just a small fraction of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's annual budget going to monitoring non-game species, many species facing habitat loss and other pressures are going unmonitored. In many cases, biologists are forced to bootstrap their own equipment and volunteer their time to track how species populations are changing. In other cases, species go unmonitored, and state biologists fear a few may be slipping through the cracks.
Oregon Field Guide teamed up with OPB to produce this investigative report into the matter, which aired on the show on November 3, 2016.
Oregon Field Guide is OPB's long-running local weekly TV series. The program covers natural resources, ecological issues, outdoor recreation and travel destinations across the Northwest region. This award-winning show is one of the most-watched local productions in the public broadcasting system.
Oregon Field Guide also extends the work it does in the field for the television series across radio and the Web, providing a greater degree of coverage.
Oregon Field Guide airs Thursday evenings at 8:30 p.m. and repeats Sundays at 1:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. In the Mountain Time zone of Eastern Oregon, the program airs at 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, and at 7:30 p.m. Sundays.
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