MailTribune.com: Couple recognized for Wood Rat Mountain event

MailTribune.com: Couple recognized for Wood Rat Mountain event: "Two weather buoys used to gather marine weather and wave data were cast adrift Monday after recording waves larger than 40 feet, says Brandon Ford at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's marine program in Newport. One buoy was anchored 20 nautical miles west of Newport near the Stonewall Banks and the other was off the Columbia River bar. They both went adrift about 7 a.m. Monday, Ford says. By mid-Tuesday they already had drifted several miles north of their stations, though both were still sending data back to computers on land, Ford says."