PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Up for a summertime game of I Spy? Well, you’re in luck because the Oregon Zoo is seeking volunteers to help spot American pikas living in the Columbia River Gorge. Pikas are ...
Chris Ray, a pika researcher, is scheduled to talk about her work Friday and then orient volunteers who want to monitor habitat of pikas, a relative of the rabbit, that is being displaced from its ...
The American pika is highly sensitive to rising temperatures, and climate change threatens its very survival. Park researchers in the West are studying the effects warming is having on this vulnerable ...
EASY PASS, North Cascades National Park — Pikas don’t ask much. With brave squeaks, belted out from atop their rock piles, they defend their realm in the talus slopes way up here in the mountains, ...
It’s hard out there for a pika — arguably Rocky Mountain National Park’s cutest critter. Loss of snowpack means less winter insulation and a risk of freezing to death. Temperatures above about 80 ...
Most who have hiked a Colorado 14er would know the sound of their squeal, though the uninitiated might have mistaken it for a bird. But don’t be fooled. Those who have spotted what Colorado Mesa ...
A pika in the ghost town of Bodie in California’s Sierra Nevada, where the rabbit relative’s populations are dwindling. climate.jpg On a bright, dry day last summer, biologist Lyle Nichols of Santa ...
As the planet continues to warm, conservation biologists worry about the future of species that depend on the cold, such as the furry pikas that live in mountainous areas of North America, Europe, and ...
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