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Mummy berries By Denise Ruttan Watch your blueberries this spring for a type of fungus that has zombie-like qualities. A fungus called Monilina vaccinii-corymbosi can infect blueberry fruit with a disease called mummy berry. Fruit falls on the ground and withers into shriveled-up berries that seem deceased. But it turns out those "mummies" are actually the fungal version of the fruit — undead berry corpses, if you will. "Mummy berry has an interesting life cycle, it's truly like a zombie," said Jay Pscheidt, a plant pathology specialist f...
Sunken PT boat By Finn J.D. John The Porpoise was one ugly boat in 1992 when the guys from Portland first laid eyes on it. It was a massive, weatherbeaten old hulk, 78 feet long and 20 feet wide, wallowing by the dock on Treasure Island in the Alameda estuary. Some time earlier, a storm had sunk it in the bay; luckily, it had only been in a few feet of water, and easily refloated, but now it lay low in the water, its bilges heavily laden with silt and gravel and water that had seeped in where the hull had been patched. The electrical system...
McKenzie River Reflections...
OSP press release 3 p.m., Friday, January 31, 2014: OR 20 is closed in both directions just east of Santiam Pass near Suttle Lake Loop following a two-vehicle crash involving major injuries. Law enforcement has closed the highway to conduct a crash investigation and reconstruction. This will likely be a long closure. There are no easy detours so motorists should avoid the area, use an alternative route or expect long delays. McKenzie River Reflections...
