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By Denise Ruttan Your trees may still need attention even in the coldest days of winter. In the life cycle of a tree, winter is the time when trees go dormant and growth slows down, said Paul Ries, an urban forester with the Oregon State University Extension Service. The strongest parts of a tree are its trunk, branches and roots, so they normally survive winter weather quite well. In the spring, new growth emerges in the form of twigs, buds and leaves. But the success of this new growth depends in part on the tree over-wintering well, Ries...
McKenzie River Reflections...
Journalism class Back to the future Looking to the future as well as the past is a good way of explaining this year’s strategy at McKenzie River Reflections. Helping flesh out those viewpoints are two classes at the University of Oregon. The Journalism Department’s strategic communication class, made up of upperclass and graduate students, will use standard research tools to both examine the way this newspaper uses different platforms to reach our audience, as well as creating solutions that will help us improve. They can also determine the bes...