Deer grazing outside your window can be a welcome sight, unless
the deer are eating your favorite flowers. Their spring and summer
browsing can kill or severely damage young garden and landscape plants.
Once deer are attracted to your yard, discouraging them is not easy. But, there are ways you...
Published April 2007. Reviewed July 2013. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Oregon has 45 species of birds that nest in holes (cavities) in
rotting or dead trees (snags). But, though they are very valuable for
wildlife, many snags in urban areas are cut down
and removed for aesthetic reasons or because they
are considered a hazard. If you have some dead...
The wood duck is so beautiful that its scientific name, Aix sponsa, means “water bird in bridal dress.” Being so beautiful (and tasty!), by the 1880s, the once-abundant wood duck was disappearing
quickly due to hunting and habitat loss.
The Pacific chorus frog, which used to be known as the Pacific treefrog,
is the most abundant kind (species) of frog in Oregon. Pacific chorus frogs are amphibians, like other frogs, toads, and salamanders. The word amphibian means “double life.” These critters are given this
name because they spend some...
Feeding wild birds has become one of America’s favorite hobbies.
It’s easy to attract birds to your yard, and there are many different ways to do so. The most common way is to put out bird feeders for them.
Many wild birds such as chickadees, nuthatches, juncos, finches, and
jays...
Bats play an important role in controlling insect populations. In North America, bats are the primary predators of night-flying insects. Some species of bats can capture several hundred insects an hour, including insect species that can devastate valuable plants or crops.
Butterflies are some of the most beautiful, fragile animals in nature, sometimes called “flying flowers.” Butterflies and moths pollinate flowers, and both adults and larvae are an important food source for birds, bats, and other wildlife. Nearly 700 kinds or species occur in North America. About 20 species commonly are...
Efforts to restore depressed populations of Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. are often hampered by the inability to assign population identity to individuals in an admixture. This knowledge is of particular concern in supportive breeding programs, in which misidentification of individuals to population may result in progeny of mixed heritage, which,...
The Chloroflexi CL500-11 clade contributes a large proportion of the bacterial biomass in the oxygenated hypolimnia of deep lakes worldwide, including the world's largest freshwater system, the Laurentian Great Lakes. Traits that allow CL500-11 to thrive and its biogeochemical role in these environments are currently unknown. Here, we found that...
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The study of reptiles and amphibians is called herpetology. The word “herps” comes from the same root word. Herps in your landscape are fun to watch, interesting to learn about, and a benefit to your local ecology. You can attract them by adapting your yard to their habitat needs.
Of all the habitat features that can attract wildlife to your yard, a
pond could be the most rewarding. Most animals need water to drink,
and many use water for feeding, bathing, breeding, regulating body
heat, resting, and cover. In the Pacific Northwest, the species you are
likely to attract...
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for Wildlife
S. Lamb and N. Allen
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Of all the habitat features that can attract wildlife to your yard, a
pond could be the most rewarding. Most animals need water to drink,
and many use water for feeding, bathing, breeding, regulating body
heat, resting, and cover. In the Pacific Northwest, the species you are
likely to attract...
Full Text:
EC1548
Reprinted April 2002
$1.50
Create a Garden Pond
for Wildlife
S. Lamb and N. Allen
The
Among the many birds attracted to gardens, hummingbirds can be the most appealing. Not only are these “garden jewels” fun to watch, hummingbirds play an important role in our environment by pollinating flowers and feeding on insects. Attracting hummingbirds to your garden is easy. You have a good chance of...
Pacific Lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus has declined across its range along the West Coast of North America,
and an understanding of all life history phases is needed to address population recovery. Spawning surveys (redd
counts) are common tools currently used to monitor returning adult salmonids, but such methodologies are in their...
Hatchery supplementation of anadromous salmon is extensive across the Pacific Northwest region with millions of juvenile salmon stocked annually. The influence of hatchery-origin fish as prey items in recipient ecosystems has been explored, but influences of these fish on broader stream nutrient dynamics has not been well-studied. Salmon-derived nutrients (SDN)...
How can rigorous forms of testing be supported in a way that is both compatible with the visual aspect of visual programming languages, and usable by the audiences using those languages - even when the audience has no background in software engineering? Visual programs are likely to contain at least...