A unique group of these adorable critters living just 30 minutes from Portland was threatened by a fire some years back, but ...

Cascades Pika Watch Scientific Adviser Johanna Varner estimates "this population might be more resilient than some others." ...

It’s a good time to be a pika in Oregon, or a volunteer trained to spot them. New survey data from Cascades Pika Watch - which included Central Oregon for the first time - shows numbers of the ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — In the Columbia River Gorge, between Angel’s Rest and Viento State Park, you might just hear a faint squeak echoing from the rocks. That sound? It could be a pika — a small, ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Columbia River Gorge’s unique population of Cascades pikas has seen a major comeback since the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire, the Oregon Zoo announced on Nov. 7. Mouse-like in ...

On a foggy, cool morning earlier this fall, wildlife biologist Chris Ray and PhD student Rachel Mae Billings sat down at the edge of a rock-strewn mountain slope and listened — just listened. All was ...