Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue operates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Veterinarian Dr. Tammy Eichmann of Countryside Veterinary Service (located in Canyonville and Myrtle Creek). We presently consist of four licensed wildlife rehabilitators — with experience ranging up to 24 years— and six sub-permittees. We are licensed to rehabilitate birds, raptors and mammals. We have a support team that staffs a Hotline, which receives calls of injured or orphaned wildlife and arranges for their placement. Others serve as a recovery team, where they rescue and transport wildlife to waiting rehabilitators. We also have members who serve at educational events, engage in fundraising activities and construct wildlife pens.

Forever Wild is a non-profit dedicated to the rehabilitation and the return to the wild of injured and orphaned wildlife in the beautiful Umpqua Watershed.

Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit that relies on donations to cover its expenses. Donated funds help pay for medicine and medical supplies, flight cages, animal feed, vet bills, and various administrative costs and other expenses related to the wildlife rehabilitation work. Forever Wild has no buildings, rent or salaries as the group is operated entirely by volunteers.

The mission and purpose of Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue is: to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned native wildlife; to equip rehabilitators with the appropriate and necessary resources and facilities; to teach and train new rehabilitators and volunteers; to research and learn new methods of treatment and care; to financially support veterinarian services for animals in serious need of such care; to educate the community about interactions with wildlife; and ultimately, to return rehabilitated wildlife in a wild condition to their native habitat.

You're support is greatly appreciated!

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From Meriann Shepherd: Marc Shepherd finished up building this new nest box for the four baby barn owls this weekend and the first night it went into their flight pen they abandoned their old box and ...

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From Meriann Shepherd: Marc Shepherd finished up building this new nest box for the four baby barn owls this weekend and the first night it went into their flight pen they abandoned their old box and moved right in to their fancy new custom home.  They are hunting live food for themselves exclusively now and food sources in the wild are at their most plentiful, so it’s time for them to go home to their wild world.  We will transport them in this box by covering up the hole during the afternoon while they’re snoozing and driving them out to their new barn on a cattle ranch where they will never be exposed to poison bait boxes again.  Baby barn owls typically have about a 75% mortality rate in the first year of life, largely because they leave their nest before they can fly, don’t know how to hunt and become part of the food chain.  I believe we have given these babies the very best odds possible at success 🦉 🦉 🦉 🦉

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