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Deep soil amendments require significant amounts of pure compost or organic matter. File photo. Alie Skowronski/mlive.com Alie Skowronski | The Ann Arbor News
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The gardening season has started and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master Gardeners reply to queries within two business days, usually less. To ask a question, simply go to the
Q: We recently finished building a house in west Salem and are working on landscaping.
Picking up baby birds can do more harm than good By Kym Pokorny, oregonlive.com
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CORVALLIS – After hatching in spring, baby birds sometimes end up on the ground, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they need help.
It depends on how old they are, how long they’ve been on the ground and whether they are injured, said Dana Sanchez, Oregon State University Extension Service wildlife specialist. Identifying the age of a bird is crucial in how you deal with one. The youngest are newly hatched fledglings and should not be without their parents. Older nestlings, on the other hand, are better-equipped to spend time out of the nest.
Salem-Keizer school board candidate Kari Zohner is receiving criticism for Facebook comments she made related to George Floyd.
Tuesday evening a few hours after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty for the murder of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man Oregon State University posted a photograph of Floyd with the years 1973-2020 written beneath his name on its official Facebook page.
By Wednesday afternoon, the post had received more than 1,000 comments, nearly 100 shares,
and varying reactions. Some Facebook users spoke up in support of the post and expressed pride in the university for sharing it. Others critiqued the university, telling them to stay in their lane, stick to posting about education, and stop the leftist indoctrination.
The birds aren’t seagulls, ravens, crows or magpies all of which are common at landfills.
They’re European starlings.
An invasive species, starlings closely resemble blackbirds and often draw the ire of many birders, farmers and others because they can pose a threat to native bird species and crops. Invasive species are living organisms that are not native to an ecosystem and cause harm.
On farms, starlings are most noticeable among the pest birds, said Jenifer Cruikshank, who works for the Oregon State University Extension Service focusing on dairy farms There’s just so many of them, and they’re kind of voracious eaters, she said.
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