Do you like tiny, furry, squeaky animals? Cascades Pika Watch wants your help

Cascades Pika Watch already has over 400 trained volunteers out looking for pikas this summer, but the group is still looking for more. Participants can train online for free.

(OPB) Wildlife photographer Linda Steider pushes through the underbrush at Little Beacon Rock in the Columbia River Gorge. She’s trying to quietly reach the bottom of a moss-covered rockslide.

“If you look up, there are smaller boulders, basketball-sized boulders,” she whispers. “They have decent holes underneath…