2B | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 299, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS
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logic formation to the
many different people
who have stewarded and
shaped its ecology.
In “Restoring the Siu-
slaw” (http://bit.ly/re-
storingthesiuslaw), look
through the layers of the
local ecosystem, learn
more about how critical
habitats support coho in
their various stages and
the economic benefits
of restoration for local
communities in return.
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about the Siuslaw Water-
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safe location (like a water
body with other duck-
lings) near where they
were found.
• Bring your pets in-
doors. Cats are a major
cause of injury and death
for all birds, killing mil-
lions of birds in the U.S.
annually. Keep your pets
away from wildlife.
• Be careful when prun-
ing trees. There may be a
bird nest in the branches
of trees being pruned.
Wait until the birds nest-
ing attempt is completed
(no viable eggs or young).
Native birds and their ac-
tive nests are protected by
state and federal wildlife
laws.
• Be aware of cavity
nesters. Barn owls, wood-
peckers and other birds
could be nesting in hol-
lowed-out trees or logs,
in haystacks and even hu-
man-made cavities like
open fence posts, chim-
neys, and other spaces
around homes.
Be proactive and ex-
clude wildlife from these
attractive nesting sites
by using chicken wire or
hardware cloth outside of
the nesting season.
• What if a bird flies
into a window and ap-
pears hurt? Birds can be
confused by reflective
surfaces and mistakenly
fly into windows. If you
find a bird that has been
stunned as a result of a
window strike, put the
bird in an uncovered box
with a towel on the bot-
tom.
Keep it in a quiet and
cool place, outside and
away from pets. Check
on the bird in a couple
of hours. If the bird has
recovered, it will have
flown off. If not, contact
your local ODFW office
or your local ODFW-li-
censed wildlife rehabil-
itation facility. Keep in
mind that many of the
state’s wildlife rehabili-
tators are experiencing
limitations on animal
in-take capacity from
operational changes due
to COVID-19. If a bird
can survive in the wild it
needs to be left alone now
more than ever.
But I miss sports.
I miss Damian Lillard
becoming a one-man
wrecking ball in an inju-
ry-marred season for Port-
land. I miss the pomp and
grandeur of a live NFL
draft. I miss that laziest of
Sundays in April, languidly
watching the final day of
the Masters Tournament
while lulled to sleep by the
dulcet tones of announcer
Jim Nance.
I miss walking into the
high school gyms and onto
the fields I find myself at
while covering sports.
But, that’s just not quite
it.
I guess I could classify
myself as an introvert. To
clear up a common mis-
conception, I’m not
anti-social. As I mentioned
earlier, keeping myself
busy and entertained is
quite simple, quite enjoy-
able and often preferable.
Yet, I crave social interac-
tion like any member of a
social species will; maybe
just slightly less often than
others.
Being essentially forced
— albeit understandably
— into introversion, how-
ever, is a different wrinkle
and it has led me to the
conclusion that I don’t
really miss sports at all. I’m
not sure any of us do.
I don’t miss Dame Time.
I miss experiencing it with
my best friends, all fellow
Blazer fanatics. I don’t real-
ly care that there aren’t 15
baseball games on every
day; I do care that I can’t
talk to my mom in person
— however much a pipe
dream it may be — about
when the Seattle Mariners
will break their 18-year
playoff drought.
The NFL draft can get
intensely boring, but not if
I can watch it over a beer
or two with my dad, my
friends… anyone!
And although I have no
relationship with the
Cottage Grove High School
gym, I do with many of the
people who are often in it.
I don’t miss sports; we
don’t miss sports. Not real-
ly. We miss each other, us
introverts included. They
may be mere entertain-
ment. They may be extra-
neous when all our social
institutions are itemized
and prioritized.
But, for better or worse,
they are a central conduit
in American society
through which we connect,
share, celebrate, grieve, tri-
umph and everything in
between — and we rarely
do it alone.
The only way we get
them back — the only way
we get each other back —
is through continued
cooperation, compassion
and care for each other’s
health and safety. A team
effort, if you will, just like
the kind we so enjoy
watching, from local gyms
to international TV broad-
casts.
I hope it works. I hope
we get sports back sooner
rather than later. Until
then, I’ll dutifully bide my
time, keeping myself occu-
pied, but I’ll do it looking
forward not to getting back
the things I miss, but get-
ting back the people I miss.
from 1B
interactive maps that tell
the tale of this landscape
in flux — from its geo-
Birds
from 1B
If the nest is out of
reach, place the bird on
an elevated branch or
fence, or in a nest made
from a small box, out of
reach of children and
pets.
Leave the area so the
parent birds can return.
Similarly, if you find
ducklings near a road or
other hazard without an
adult, they should not be
taken home, but left in a
Snyder
from 1B
They have become cor-
nerstones in our day to day
life. They bring untold joy
and camaraderie to groups
of fans, players, coaches
and families all over the
country.
They are multi-genera-
tional shared experiences
passed down through the
years. They are also, as
we’ve found with so many
other pockets of life over
the past few weeks, non-es-
sential.
Extracurricular.
Unimportant in the face
of illness and deaths caused
by COVID-19.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s
easy enough to stay busy
despite spending 98 per-
cent of my time in the
same few hundred square
feet. Streaming services are
plentiful, books still exist,
recent weather has been
downright lovely and I
consider myself one of the
lucky ones to still have a
job to wake up to every
morning.
&
shoppe play
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