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Tag: burrowing owls

Camp Umatilla helps make home for burrowing owls
June 4, 2020 — UMATILLA, Ore. – In 2008 Don Gillis, the natural resource manager at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, noticed a decline in the nesting areas for the burrowing owls on Camp Umatilla. The decline was due to... MORE

When badgers stopped making tunnels used as nests by burrowing owls at Camp Umatilla, Oregon, in 2008, Don Gillis, the natural resource manager at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, stepped in to help. Twelve years later, the owls are thriving and sharing Camp Umatilla with the National Guard.

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