In this episode of Watershed Moments we talk with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists about two native species in very different situations in the Columbia River Estuary at the moment. Kelcee Smith is ODFW’s chum reintroduction coordinator, she tells us about their local history, decline, and efforts to bring chum back at the Big Creek Hatchery as she works the fish! James Lawonn is an avian biologist with ODFW who spoke with us during one of his counts of double-crested cormorants along the Astoria-Megler Bridge, telling us about how they ended up there in such numbers and how...
