The Sonoma tree vole (Arborimus pomo) may not be as famous as the honey badger or the bald eagle, but this small creature holds its own unique charm. Hidden among the giants of Northern California’s ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — A tree-dwelling rodent that’s one of the favorite meals of the endangered northern spotted owl is itself a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and ...

Red tree vole by Stephen DeStefano, USGS. Conservation groups plan to sue the Trump administration for its failure to protect the red tree vole population that resides on the north Oregon coast. The ...

Arboreal residents of Oregon's drippy coastal forests, North Coast red tree voles have grown dependent on intact communities of thousand-year-old trees. Building nests on tree branches and rarely ...

Red tree voles live in the tops conifer trees and eat their needles. They used to be abundant in the forests of Oregon's north coast but following years of clear-cutting and successive forest fires, ...

Several environmental groups are challenging the federal government’s determination that red tree voles in Oregon do not warrant threatened or endangered status. The Center for Biological Diversity ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the north Oregon coast red tree vole does not warrant a listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. USFWS said the small mammal did not ...

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on July 17 for denying Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections to the north Oregon Coast population of red tree voles. The lawsuit, filed ...

EUGENE, Ore. (CN) - A federal plan to clear 85 percent of the canopy from 149 acres of old-growth forest would hurt northern spotted owls and the red tree voles they eat, environmentalists claim in ...

Timber groups can’t intervene in Endangered Species Act litigation over red tree voles because a federal judge said they lack a “significantly protectable interest” in the case. In 2019, the U.S. Fish ...

Red tree vole (Phenacomys longicaudus) habitat and microhabitat use was studied in young, mature and old-growth Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)/hardwood forests in northern California between June ...