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Northwestern garter snakes specialize in eating slugs and other invertebrates. This is a yellow striped version, but these snakes are highly variable and may also have red, orange or even blue stripes.
May 31, 2023
The Slug Eaters
By Amy Zimmer
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A .jpg file showing the umbel shaped white flowers, fern-like leaves, and purple-blotched stems of poison hemlock.
May 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Poison Hemlock
By marionswcd
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Mid-Willamette CWMA’s April 2023 Weed of the Month Flyer for Herb Robert
April 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Herb Robert
By Amy Zimmer
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Wilson’s snipe on a mudflat near Turner, Marion Co., Oregon.
March 20, 2023
Snipes Are Real
By Amy Zimmer
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A flyer for weed of the month reed canarygrass (RCG) that shows four images of RCG. One is of a patch of RCG, one is of a seedhead spike that is rather plume-like, one has more open seed heads, and one shows the leaf blade sticking out at a 45 degree angle from the stem.
March 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Reed Canarygrass
By marionswcd
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A gourd bird house hanging in a tree.
February 14, 2023
Grow a Bird House!
By Amy Zimmer
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Two garden tools stuck in rich garden soil with greenery in the background a seedling in the foreground
February 7, 2023
Maximize Your Garden’s Potential
By Kassi Roosth
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A flyer for weed of the month false brome showing this bunch grass with hairs on leaf edges and spikelets that are not stalked. Signature candy apple or lime green color persists through fall and even mild winters. Leaf blades up to 14" long, upright stems 2-3' tall.
February 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: False Brome
By marionswcd
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Spurge Laurel square flyer with images showing its waxy evergreen, rhododendron-like leaves in whorls and small black fruits
January 1, 2023
Weed of the Month: Spurge Laurel
By marionswcd
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farm equipment on fieldyellow tractor on a field
December 21, 2022
Funding Sources Beyond Marion SWCD
By Susan Ortiz
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December 21, 2022
Virtual Salmon Watch Field Trip
By Amy Zimmer
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Green and yellow flyer for weed of the month English ivy shows the vine overtaking a tree as well as the juvenile and adult leaves. Juvenile leaves are more palmate and adult leaves are more cordate. Adult leaves and under ripe green berries in image.
December 1, 2022
Weed of the Month: English Ivy
By marionswcd
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