"So many carp carcasses I couldn't even walk up to them," Beck says. That's what a tour of duty on Malheur Lake will do to even the most soulful naturalist. At the Narrows on Oregon 205 ...

The Malheur Wildlife Refuge, first called the Lake Malheur Reservation, was officially established in 1908 by Teddy Roosevelt as one of only six such refuges west of the Mississippi. In 1916 ...

Scientists say Malheur Lake once provided expansive habitat for waterfowl and other migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway. That was before common carp were introduced to the lake. These fish ...

But they are hardly the refuge's first out-of-state visitors. Malheur Lake is a regional hub for hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl. By some measures, it boasts the greatest diversity of ...

In the late 1800s the Paiutes of Eastern Oregon were forced to march from their reservation near Malheur Lake to the Yakima Reservation nearly 350 miles away through the deep winter snow.

They took up particularly tenacious residence in Malheur Lake, along whose muddy, shallow bottom they rooted, pig-like, for food. As the carp stirred up gunk, the lake grew cloudier, blocking ...

Cormorants, pelicans, gulls and terns by the millions once wheeled and shrieked above Malheur Lake while ducks bobbed and dove for insects. Now, the lake and sky are eerily empty. “I mean ...

years after the bottom-feeding fish completed a takeover of Malheur Lake. The carp have created an ecosystem that no longer supports the plants and insect life that birds rely upon for food and ...

But they are hardly the refuge's first out-of-state visitors. Malheur Lake is a regional hub for hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl. By some measures, it boasts the greatest diversity of ...

There were thousands of them, crowding the shallow waters of Malheur Lake, taking a break on their massive journey south on the Pacific flyway. There were snow geese, songbirds of all kinds ...

On August 18 1908, he complied, signing an executive order establishing the 81,786-acre Malheur Lake Refuge, which also encompassed nearby Haney and Mud Lakes, “as a preserve and breeding ground ...

The refuge itself began with federal lands in the area (Malheur Lake and nearby Mud and Haney lakes) designated for protection by President Theodore Roosevelt; subsequent additions to the refuge ...