Free news: The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the remains of Kenneth Martin, Barbara Martin, and Barbie Martin, who disappeared in 1958, following DNA analysis by Othram, Inc. of remains located in the Columbia River within the wreckage of the Martin family car.
Last week’s image, according to reader Courtney Kaiser, showed a contest held for the World Champion fastest earthworm March 1986, in Petersburg School. This contest, the only one of its kind he knows of, happened every year for the six years Kaiser taught there.
I used to think that the brain was the most important part of the body,” comedian Emo Philips once said. “Then I realized, ‘look who’s telling me that.’”
HOOD RIVER — Hood River Watershed Group representatives will attend the Port of Hood River’s Feb. 17 meeting will provide an overview of a federally-funded “Hood River Confluence Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study.”
Free news: Aaron Bott, state wolf biologist, will present on the natural history, biology, and behavior of wolves at The Ruins on Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. The presentation is free to attend.
FREE: THE GORGE — As the seasons shift, fall and winter offer time to discover something new about nature. UCD is starting their seventh Annual Winter Workshop Series as December, January, and February in-person meetings in White Salmon and Stevenson, Washington.
HOOD RIVER — Did you know that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than plants? Well, Krista Cushman does, along with an encyclopedia of tips and tricks to help you identify them in the wild.
The Columbia River Gorge enthusiast, mycologist and Hood River educator shared an abundance of fungal facts and woodsy wisdom at the Columbia Center for the Arts on Nov. 12 — the second lecture in Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16.
