David Johnson, the owl man of Umatilla

Mongabay
Jul 29, 2026, 8:21 pm122 ptsTrending
At the former Umatilla Chemical Depot in eastern Oregon, the weapons were gone, though their presence had shaped the land. Concrete bunkers stood among sagebrush and dry grass. Pronghorn moved through the open country. Badgers, once common there, had largely disappeared. Their absence mattered to the small owls…

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