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Mark Graves

Portland

Photographer and Videographer at Oregon Live (The Oregonian)

Photojournalist and data visualization specialist for The @Oregonian - [email protected] IG: @mark_w_graves

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  • Nighttime I-205 closures to affect Oregon City, West Linn during Abernethy Bridge work

    1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Mark Graves

    Drivers in the Oregon City and West Linn area should expect nighttime lane closures, detours and construction noise as work continues on the Abernethy Bridge, part of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s largest construction project in nearly 50 years. The project will make the Abernethy Bridge the first earthquake-ready interstate bridge across the Willamette River in the Portland area.

  • Smelt poachers caught with over a ton of fish during one-day season

    3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Mark Graves

    The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last Thursday during a joint poaching enforcement operation with Oregon State Police on the Sandy River. The fish were confiscated during the single-day legal smelt dipping season on March 27, 2025 — a rare opportunity that drew large crowds to the riverbank between the Sandy River’s mouth and the Stark Street Bridge.

  • Smelt dippers return to Sandy River for rare one-day fishery

    3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Mark Graves

    Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this year’s run appears to have waited for spring break. A pulse of the tasty little fish finally showed up in enough numbers to allow a one-day — or more precisely, seven-hour — dipping season Thursday afternoon.

  • Rare killer whales caught on camera off Central Oregon coast

    4 weeks ago | rv-times.com | Mark Graves |Troy Heie

    Published 1:59 pm Thursday, March 27, 2025 Researcher identifies whales as members of the L4 matriline, part of the L pod — one of three family groups in the critically endangered southern resident population. A rare group of endangered southern resident killer whales was spotted off Oregon’s central coast Monday. about three miles offshore near Cape Foulweather, just north of Depoe Bay.

  • Only 73 critically endangered southern resident orcas remain in the world, a large pod was just spotted off the Oregon coast

    4 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Mark Graves

    A rare group of endangered southern resident killer whales was spotted off Oregon’s central coast Monday, March 24, about three miles offshore near Cape Foulweather, just north of Depoe Bay. Observers aboard the Samson, a charter vessel operated by Dockside Charters, reported seeing about 10 whales. Whale watcher Cathy Sharp captured photos of the sighting, which were later analyzed by researcher Josh McInnes of California State University, Monterey Bay.

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Mark Graves
Mark Graves @markwgraves
19 Jul 24

Set the trail camera back up in the backyard last night in SE Portland. This raccoon stole the show by untying an old rope in its path and re-tying it out of the way. https://t.co/EjSMv2DK8n

Mark Graves
Mark Graves @markwgraves
19 Apr 24

RT @maxoregonian: Portland resident Taylor Hatmaker was among those evacuated from Timberline Lodge Thursday night: “It’s emotional seeing…

Mark Graves
Mark Graves @markwgraves
28 Mar 24

Feds plan to kill half a million barred owls in West Coast states over the next three decades https://t.co/FW70MkVGK3