Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Reprinted July 1994. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
This manual introduces 4-H members and their leaders to the possibilities of raising pigeons and/or doves as a 4-H project. Pigeons and doves can adapt to nearly all conditions. You may raise them in rural, suburban, or urban areas; they seldom are restricted by zoning. They are easy to raise,...
Wildfire impacts have intensified in many ecosystems across the western United States due to the combined impact of fire exclusion, climate change, and land management practices. However, on many of these landscapes, fire is a fundamental ecological process that has shaped vegetation structural and compositional diversity, ecosystem function, landscape pattern,...
The Macrocheles glaber species group contains many
of the common mites which are associated with the dung
of domestic animals. Species in the glaber group have
been investigated for their use as biological control
agents of synanthropic flies.
Over 10,000 slide-mounted specimens of Macrocheles
in the OSU Acarology Collection and...
This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative resistance
of genetic lines of hops, Humulus lupulus (Linn.) to the
two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (Koch) in western
Oregon.
Approximately three-hundred genetic lines of hops were
screened under insectory conditions during the 1965 growing season
at Corvallis, Oregon. Reduction...
Anyone with an interest in plants or insects, anyone who cares for a lawn, grows a crop, or enjoys an outdoor walk sooner or later will notice galls. The purpose of this booklet is to provide brief answers to some of the common questions that people ask about galls and...