Wednesday, November 23, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Nutrition Animal adventures in Sisters
Education
volunteers
sought
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
Concerned about the food
and shopping choices people
are making that affect their
health? If you would enjoy
sharing research-based infor-
mation about healthy eating
on a budget then you might
enjoy becoming an Oregon
State University nutrition edu-
cation volunteer. Volunteers
demonstrate cooking healthy
recipes at local food pantries
or lead small groups with fun,
interactive nutrition activities.
To become a volun-
teer, applicants take a five-
hour class on Wednesday,
December 7, 9 a.m. at the
OSU/Deschutes County
Extension office in Redmond.
Once trained and certified,
volunteers commit to dem-
onstrating healthy recipes six
times over six months.
See the nutrition education
volunteer application link at
http://extension.oregonstate.
edu/deschutes/nutrition-edu
cation to read more about the
program. To apply, send your
application to Katie Ahern,
family & community health
instructor, by December
5 to katherine.ahern@
oregonstate.edu or OSU
Extension, 1900 N.E.
Division St., Suite 107, Bend,
OR 97701. For more informa-
tion call 541-306-6067.
Last month marked the
first monthly cooperative
program offered by the High
Desert Museum (HDM) and
Deschutes Public Library
System.
The presentation was on
nocturnal animals, focusing
on bats and owls. To begin
the program, Alyisa Wolf,
assistant curator of wildlife
for HDM, removed a lively
adult barred owl from its car-
rying case and gave each of
the children and parents in
attendance a close-up look at
this controversial nocturnal
owl.
The barred owl is an alien
species that is creating great
concern within the circle of
scientists working with our
indigenous northern spotted
owl.
The now-infamous
barred owl’s presence in the
Northwest is causing seri-
ous biological and genetic
problems for native northern
spotted owls throughout their
home range. Barred owls
have traveled from eastern
North America to western
North America via thousands
of Canadian and U.S. log-
ging clearcuts, feeding on the
abundant terrestrial rodents
populating the unnatural
habitat.
Unlike the northern spot-
ted owls that are specialists,
utilizing arboreal voles for
food, barred owls are gener-
alists and can get by on just
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
Brooke Frutos with daughter Henley, and Leah Stoudt with her grandpa, Pop Kemle, took part in Sisters
Library’s Animal Adventure program, watching Alyisa Wolf of the High Desert Museum show off a barred owl.
about any rodent they catch
and consume.
Further, barred owls are
genetically so close to spot-
ted owls they can interbreed,
giving rise to “sparred owls,”
which threaten the gene pool
of northern spotted owls.
To remove this threat, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife has been
using what they term “lethal
removal” of the alien barred
owls. However, they’ve
decided to live-capture the
owls and offer them to zoos
and museums as “educational
birds,” which have been put
to work in libraries, muse-
ums and school educational
programs.
The program smoothly
shifted from owls (as Wolf
carefully and quietly placed
the barred owl back in its
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Glynis Bawden presented
the children with construc-
tion materials to make their
own paper-and-bead bats. At
that time, the lesson opened
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each child went home with a
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