Grant's Getaways: Guide to Wildlife Watching in Oregon

A fifth-generation Oregonian, McOmie is a journalist, author, and teacher who realized he hadn’t seen enough of his native state and he has spent much of his thirty-year career as a news reporter exploring Oregon. He ended up enjoying his getaways so much that he decided to share these “teachable moments with touchable history” in a new Grant’s Getaways series of guidebooks.

• ContentsMapAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSPRINGDancing Antlers and Oregon’s Secret Garden/Reedsport, OregonYouth Outdoor Day @EE Wilson Wildlife Area/Near Corvallis, OregonFirst Hand Oregon/St Paul, OregonLend a Hand at Oregon’s All Volunteer Hatchery/Netarts BayPaddle for Peace of Mind/Beaver Creek Water Trail and State ParkWildlife Safari/Winston, OregonA Friend to the Critters/Grants Pass, Oregon Best Seat of the House/Cape Lookout State Park TrailBird-a-thon on the High Desert/Ladd Marsh Wildlife AreaAt Home on the Antelope Range/Hart Mountain Wildlife RefugeHonkers at Home/Snake River Islands Wildlife Area-Farewell Bend State ParkYaquina Head/Newport, OregonSUMMERAll Painted Up @ Irrigon Wildlife Area/Pendleton, OregonCascades Raptor Center-Fern Ridge Washington/Eugene, OregonWhere Lewis and Clark Paddled @ Blind Slough/Near AstoriaSiltcoos River Canoe Trail/Florence, OregonDinosaurs with Fins/Bonneville Fish HatcheryWatch the Salmon/Winchester Dam Wildlife Area/Roseburg, OregonFlying Trout/Mt Hood National ForestWaterfowl Haven@ Denman Wildlife Area/Central Point, OregonCasting a Line/Scanning the Skies @ Prineville Wildlife Area/Prineville, OregonBridge Creek Wildlife Area/Pendleton, OregonOregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge/Newport, OregonCape Meares National Wildlife Refuge and State Park/Tillamook, OregonFALLFocus on Nature/Tillamook State ForestFernhill Restorative Garden/Forest Grove, OregonDowntown Salmon/Coos Bay, OregonBonney Butte Raptors/Mount Hood, OregonSauvie Island Sandhills/Multnomah County, OregonAfoot and Afloat on the Nestucca River/Pacific City, OregonHigh Desert Shorebirds @ Coyote Springs Wildlife Area/Pendleton, OregonA Pelican Can @ Willow Creek Wildlife Area/Pendleton, OregonDip a Paddle in the South Slough National Estuary/Charleston, OregonBirding in Bandon/Bandon, OregonAll Hands on Deck @ Yaquina Bay/Newport, OregonWildlife Spirit Resources/Corvallis, OregonWINTERSummer Lake Wildlife Area/Paisley, OregonA Convocation of Eagles/Linn County, OregonEagle Watch/Lake Billy ChinookB-52s of the Waterfowl World/Trojan Pond/Near Rainier, OregonEagle Patrol @ Klamath Wildlife Refuge/Klamath Falls, OregonA Gang of Elk @ Elkhorn Wildlife Area/Baker City, OregonVisitor Friendly Hatchery/North Fork Nehalem River Turkeys, Deer, and Bears, Oh My!/White River Wildlife AreaLend a Hand with Wildlife @ Jewell Meadows Washington/Clatsop County, OregonBig Horns of the Weneha Wildlife Area/Enterprise, OregonWild in the City/Metro Natural Areas and Greenspaces/Portland, OregonWinter Dungeness Crab-Recipes/Astoria, OregonIndex

"Grant's Getaways: KGW8's popular outdoor reporter, Grant McOmie, has published "Guide to Wildlife Watching in Oregon," WestWinds Press, $16.99.The well-written book (every page is interesting) is conveniently categorized by season, with its dozens of seasonal locations also keyed on a map. It covers the gamut of Oregon's extraordinary fish and wildlife."—Bill Monroe, The Oregonian