It was about this time last year that I started thinking about my next, and probably last, significant landscape project at my home.Â
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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, with December, January, and February in-person meetings in White Salmon and Stevenson.
Hungry and patient, the golden eyes of invasive American bullfrogs breach the surface of quiet waters, ready to lunge indiscriminately at any small sign of movement. Under the same moonlight, a different kind of hunter navigates through the water: a team of trained bullfrog removal technicians.
FREE BRIEFS: Construction notice from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway;Â Holiday donations for YES;Â UCD offers winter workshops
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.Â
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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.
Commentary: In partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Glenwood-based nonprofit Mt. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS) introduced the Bullfrog Removal Action Team (BRAT) program in 2020 to attempt to reverse the steep decline of native Oregon spotted frogs in the Glenwood Valley.Â
STEVENSON — The Stevenson Grange is hosting a plant, seed and bulb swap as its last event of the Community resiliance program on Saturday Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. downstairs in the Library Gallery.
Oaks feed everyone, through wildfire and drought. Birds and moths depend on them like humans depend on groceries, housing, and social services.
