Our friends and colleagues at Greenbelt Land Trust have completed the first phase of oak savanna restoration on the Bald Hill Farm property this fall. The goals include maintaining legacy oaks and expanding oak savanna, which will benefit many other plants and animals that depend on this now-rare habitat. You can learn more at http://greenbeltlandtrust.org/conserving-land/bald-hill-farm/woodlands-stewardship-project/
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Dave Vesely, OWI ecologist, will be among the speakers at Pacific Northwest Agroforestry Practices workshop on July 8, 2015 in Salem. For more information, see the LMS Final Poster Agenda.
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In response to a petition to list the western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) as threatened or endangered under the ESA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced its 90-day finding and has initiated a status review of the species.
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Presentation: Conserving Purple Martin’s in OSU’s McDonald-Dunn Research Forest When: March 19, 2014 6:30 pm Where: Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center, Ecotrust Building 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209 The purple martin, once common in the Willamette Valley, has experienced a steep population decline since the 1940’s. The primary causes are thought to be [...]
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Joan Hagar from the U.S. Geological Survey and I went out to the Dunn Forest purple martin colony last Friday to band this year’s nestlings. Each bird had a numbered, aluminum band attached to its left leg and a color band (red) attached to its right. Joan will submit these data to the USGS Bird [...]
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