THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2019 // 19
Prune your plants ahead of spring
ILWACO, Wash. —
Master Gardeners offers a
spring pruning workshop
10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday,
Feb. 23, at the Columbia
Pacifi c Heritage Museum
with presenters Kelly
Rupp and Hugh Barrett.
Spring is coming, but
it’s not here yet. This
is the time to get out in
the garden and exam-
ine your dormant plants
and trees. What kinds of
pruning will ensure their
health and optimize their
beauty?
Master Gardeners will
share specifi c techniques
for pruning ornamental
plants, shrubs, fruit trees
and caning berries. There
will be plants and demon-
strations of pruning meth-
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Master Gardeners can teach you how to keep your plants
looking their best.
ods, hands-on opportu-
nities to practice your
pruning methods and hand-
outs to guide you in keep-
ing your plants looking
their best.
The museum is at 115
S.E. Lake St.
Before Profi ts.” He will dis-
cuss how the Green New
Deal applies to Clatsop
County’s high-density car-
bon forests.
Following Willer’s pre-
sentation will be Mary
Scurlock, a policy and tech-
nical consultant for the Ore-
gon Stream Protection Coa-
lition who will address
“Private Forests, Pub-
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LEWIS & CLARK
— From Friday, Feb. 15,
through Monday, Feb. 18,
visitors to Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park,
Fort Clatsop can join in the
22nd annual Great Back-
yard Bird Count by record-
ing bird observations in
the park and making plans
to count birds in their own
backyards. Binoculars will
be available for loan within
the park.
To participate in this cit-
izen science opportunity,
anyone in the world can
count birds at any location
on one or more days of the
count and enter their sight-
ings at gbbc.birdcount.
org. The information gath-
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A heron.
ered by tens of thousands
of individuals helps track
changes in bird popula-
tions on a massive scale.
The Bird Count is a joint
project of the Cornell Lab
of Ornithology and the
National Audubon Society
with partner Bird Studies
Canada.
Along with the actual
bird counting activi-
ties, Lewis and Clark
has planned four days of
bird-related opportunities.
For more information on
the worldwide bird count
event or to submit bird
counts from your home,
visit gbbc.birdcount.org.
For more information about
the park, call 503-861-
2471 or check out nps.gov/
lewi or Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park on
Facebook.
Get to know the birds of Astoria
Oregon’s stream protection laws examined
ASTORIA — CREATE
is sponsoring a free Ecology
Speaker Series at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 21, at Clat-
sop Community College’s
Columbia Hall, Room 219.
The series welcomes
Chuck Willer, director of
the Coast Range Associa-
tion, who will present “Wall
Street Forests & the Cli-
mate Crisis: Putting People
Join the Great Backyard Bird Count
lic Water: Why Oregon’s
Stream Protection Laws are
Failing.”
Scurlock will share her
thoughts on how and why
Oregon’s Board of Forestry
and Environmental Qual-
ity Commission are fail-
ing to protect the public’s
interest in clean water and
wildlife on state and private
forestlands.
LEWIS AND CLARK
— Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park, Fort Clat-
sop’s next In Their Footsteps
free speaker series event,
“Five Common Birds of
Astoria” with Barbara Lin-
nett, takes place 1 p.m. Sun-
day, Feb. 17.
This presentation is part
of the worldwide Great
Backyard Bird Count activ-
ities in the park held Friday
through Monday, Feb. 15
through 18.
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Enjoy an hour of indoor
birding; no binoculars, hats
or boots needed. This talk
focuses on fi ve favorite Clat-
sop County birds. Linnett
will discuss identifi cation,
behavior, migration patterns,
breeding and nesting, feeding
needs, and how and where to
spot them in the area.
Linnett, a bird enthusi-
ast and wildlife volunteer, is
a retired nurse who volun-
teered for the Wildlife Center
of the North Coast near Asto-
ria for eight years.
In Their Footsteps is a
monthly Sunday forum spon-
sored by the Lewis & Clark
National Park Association
and the park. These programs
are held in the Netul River
Room of Fort Clatsop’s visi-
tor center, free of charge.
For more information,
call the park at 503-861-
2471, visit nps.gov/lewi or
check out Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park on
Facebook.
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