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Ensatina “Ensatina eschscholtzii”  Fully terrestrial salamander and their eggs are laid in burrows. Indented band around the base of the tail is where it breaks off if seized by a predator.  Found in moist forests habitats from the Cascade Mountains west to the coast in OR. & WA.   Photo:  Rainier, OR. 10/29/2006

Black-Tailed Deer “Odocoileus hemionus columbianus.  Sub species of the mule deer found west of the Cascades in Or & Wa.  This is probably a yearling doe.  Photo:  N.W. Trek near Eatonville, Wa west of Mt Rainier 11/14/2009

Bighorn Sheep “Ovis canadensis” Male height 3-3.5′, length 5-6′ and weight 140-130 lbs. and the females are smaller. Our original population of Big Horn Sheep were eliminated by hunting and diseases in the early 1900′s. The sheep that are now in the wild were reintroduced from other areas. The horns on sheep in the desert are proportionally larger than those in the north. Photo: Northwest Trek near Eatonville, Wa. 11/14/2009

Gray Wolf “Canis lupus” Length about 4.5′ long, tail 1′ long, weight 60-100 lbs. Wolves were originally wide spread in Western Or. and in N. E. Or. but they were completely eradicated about 75 years ago. Photo: Northwest Trek near Eatonville, Wa. 11/14/2009

Raccoon “Procyon lotor” Length approximately two feet. Weight ten to fifteen pounds. They are cute but they often become a nuisance. Photo: Northwest Trek near Eatonville, Wa. 114/2009

Pacific Treefrog “Pseudacris regilla”  These little frogs (1.5 inches long) are brown or green with a characteristic black stripe extending from the snout to the shoulder. The males call in a great chorus and they can make quite a racket.  Photo:  Near Rainier, Or 9/04/2006

American Bison “Bison bison”.   Height; 6 feet tall, length; 10 feet long and weight: 2,200 pounds.  The last wild bison in Oregon was killed in the Owyhee Mountains in Eastern Oregon in 1840.  These animals were raised on a ranch near Halfway, Oregon and are in no-way tame.   Invade their space and they are apt to do a tap dance on you that you won’t remember.  We drove through the herd in a Lincoln Town Car to make sure they got a little exercise and the car got stuck in a “buffalo wallow”. We had to call the owners son on a cell phone and he pulled us out with a backhoe. The calves are cute but they soon outgrow it.   Photo:    Near Halfway, Or. in North-Eastern Oregon 6/13/2006

American Badger “Taxidea taxus”  Length 24″ and weight approx 20 pounds.  Then are omnivorous and will eat ground squirrels, insects and vegetation if hunting is sparse.  Photo:  N.W. Trek near Eatonville, Wa  11/01/2008

Black Tailed Jackrabbit “Lepus californicus”   Length about 22″.  Common in Eastern Or and Wa.  Population estimates are approximately one per acre.  Photo:  Malheur Bird Refuge near Burns, Or  7/02/2009