Samantha Swindler

2 weeks ago | chronline.com | Samantha Swindler

After years of failed attempts, a cohort of Oregon Zoo-reared northern leopard frogs has finally survived through the winter at the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Washington. “We’ve tried this for a few years and have not had any success in overwintering before,” said Patricia Valcarcel, an amphibian and reptile biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. What changed this time? The bullfrogs.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Samantha Swindler

After years of failed attempts, a cohort of Oregon Zoo-reared northern leopard frogs has finally survived through the winter at the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Washington. “We’ve tried this for a few years and have not had any success in overwintering before,” said Patricia Valcarcel, an amphibian and reptile biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. What changed this time? The bullfrogs.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Samantha Swindler

This year, Lincoln City will celebrate its 40th annual summer kite festival and its 45th annual fall kite festival. The small Oregon coast town’s title as the self-proclaimed “Kite Capital of the World” has stuck, but not for obvious reasons. It’s not because these are the largest kite festivals in the U.S. — that distinction belongs to Washington State International Kite Festival in Long Beach. Nor are Lincoln City’s kite festivals the oldest in Oregon.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Samantha Swindler

Dress for Success normally allows only clients to shop its selection of donated clothes. Three times a year, however, the public is invited to shop the nonprofit’s closet sale. The next chance to do so is June 20-22. The Portland-based Dress for Success program began in 1999 solely as a clothing bank. Today, the nonprofit is one of 134 Dress for Success affiliates across 20 countries and offers wrap-around services to help women and gender expansive people reenter the workforce.

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Samantha Swindler

If you didn’t get a chance to visit the High Desert Museum’s “Sensing Sasquatch” exhibition in Bend, a version of it is now on display in Portland. The World Forestry Center’s new exhibition, “Sasquatch: Ancestral Guardians,” features stories and art from Native perspectives on the creature known in modern pop culture as Bigfoot. It was created in collaboration with the High Desert Museum, which hosted a similar exhibition last year.