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Dave Budeau looks out over the wet prairie restoration site with tall grasses and a hedgerow behind him.
July 28, 2023
Dave Budeau: Caring for Wildlife; Creating Habitat
By Heath Keirstead
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July 2023 Weed of the Month Parrotfeather
June 26, 2023
Weed of the Month: Parrotfeather
By Heath Keirstead
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Green, metallic, adult Emerald Ash Borer on leaf.
June 12, 2023
How to Cope with Emerald Ash Borer
By Chelsea Blank
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a whole spotted jewelweed plant with green oblong to egg shaped leaves and red-spotted orange flowers
May 31, 2023
Weed of the Month: Spotted Jewelweed
By Heath Keirstead
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a bowl-shaped rain garden at Bush's Pasture Park with sedges planted in the lowest areas and other forbs and shrubs up higher. Photo taken looking down from the cement inflow feature.
May 31, 2023
Why Install a Rain Garden?
By Kassi Roosth
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Northwestern garter snakes specialize in eating slugs and other invertebrates. This is a yellow striped version, but these snakes are highly variable and may also have red, orange or even blue stripes.
May 31, 2023
The Slug Eaters
By Dave Budeau
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A .jpg file showing the umbel shaped white flowers, fern-like leaves, and purple-blotched stems of poison hemlock.
May 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Poison Hemlock
By marionswcd
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Mid-Willamette CWMA’s April 2023 Weed of the Month Flyer for Herb Robert
April 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Herb Robert
By Heath Keirstead
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Wilson’s snipe on a mudflat near Turner, Marion Co., Oregon.
March 20, 2023
Snipe Are Real
By Dave Budeau
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A flyer for weed of the month reed canarygrass (RCG) that shows four images of RCG. One is of a patch of RCG, one is of a seedhead spike that is rather plume-like, one has more open seed heads, and one shows the leaf blade sticking out at a 45 degree angle from the stem.
March 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Reed Canarygrass
By marionswcd
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A gourd bird house hanging in a tree.
February 14, 2023
Grow a Bird House!
By Dave Budeau
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Miss Mickey the black lab on a walk, posing by a stormdrain with a bit of debris and litter on the grates.
February 9, 2023
Cooking Oil to Community
By Jenny Ammon
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