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Articles from the August 8, 2020 edition


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  • Butterflies wing their way into the garden

    Aug 8, 2020

    Painted Lady By Kym Pokorny Fragile, beautiful and fascinating, butterflies flutter their way into our gardens and seem to just as quickly wing their way out. It isn’t because they necessarily want to leave, said Heather Stoven, an entomologist with the Oregon State University Extension Service. Rather they don’t find what they need to park themselves permanently. As detailed in Extension’s publication The Wildlife Garden: How to Create a Butterfly Garden, buetterflies require specific room and board to have their needs met. As with all wildl...

  • Pruitt Camp Cookout

    Aug 8, 2020

    McKenzie River Reflections...

  • Habitat gates given go ahead

    Aug 8, 2020

    Gate map MCKENZIE BRIDGE: The McKenzie River Ranger District will soon install two gates (one on Forest Service Road 2633-706 and another on Forest Service Road 2654-782). The gates will establish a motorized closure on a combined total of approximately 1.25 miles of road to protect fish and wildlife habitat. The action follows recent approval of a Habitat Protection Gates Project Environmental Assessment that evaluated potential motorized impacts on, “The extensive aquatic restoration investment that has occurred there and is ongoing,” acc...