Sunday, May 26, 2024

Our Natives are Weeds

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 "We have a marketing failure with natives," Doug Tallamy wrote in Nature's Best Hope . While I think the "grow natives...
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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Up the Snake River into Hell's Canyon

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We took a motorized boat --jet boat--tour up the Snake River from Clarkston Washington to Hell's Canyon, the deepest river gorge in Nort...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Plant Story - Flixweed, Tansy Mustard, Herb Sophia, Descurainia sophia, Weedy Spring Mustard

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 As a group, the plants in the mustard or cabbage family, Brassicaceae, are cool weather plants, growing well early in the spring, flowering...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Plants of Lewis and Clark

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 My recent cruise down the Snake and Columbia Rivers retraced some of the steps of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition. Also called the Corp...
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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Polyploidy 4. Distribution of Autopolyploidy

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Polyploidy is whole genome duplication, a genetic phenomenon which is widespread in plants and uncommon in animals. The ancestry of most if ...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Travel Story - Landscapes of a Cruise Down the Columbia River

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I took a river cruise (with Lindblad/National Geographic) down the Snake River from Lewiston Idaho to the Columbia River to its mouth on the...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Growing Natives in Colorado

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 There is a national push for homeowners in the U.S. to grow plants native to their area (see previous posts  part1 ;  part 2 ; part 3 ; HNP...