A world of research at Oregon State University

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Concord Elementary School

Post author By shermale
Post date January 31, 2013

Amid the chaos, the kids are learning about the art of gardening.

Tags Environment and Natural Resources, Oregon Master Naturalist program

Healthy Planet Stewardship

Lake of the Woods

“The three key words in the mission of Oregon Master Naturalists are explore, connect, contribute.”

Tags Environment & Natural Resources, Extension, Oregon Master Naturalist program

Healthy Planet

South Slough

Oregon State University master naturalist volunteers Anne Marie Farell-Matthews and Philip Matthews cut open sacks of native Olympic oysters and spread them on a muddy flat during low tide at Oregon's South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve near Charleston. EMBARGO FOR TERRA. DO NOT USE THIS PHOTO!

Anne and Philip Matthews have explored every twist and tangle of the South Slough, which became the nation’s first national estuarine research reserve in the 1970s.

Tags Coos Bay, Environment and Natural Resources, Estuary, Extension, Marine Science & the Coast, Master Naturalist, Oregon Master Naturalist program, South Slough

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Rimrock Ranch

Post author By shermale
Post date January 31, 2013

Guiding tours for the Deschutes Land Trust has been, for years, an outgrowth of Mary Crow’s passion for the land.

Tags Environment and Natural Resources, Extension, Oregon Master Naturalist program

Healthy Economy

Caring for Cows

Post author By shermale
Post date January 30, 2013

Oregon State Univesity staff and students roundup beef cattle on the Zumwalt Prairie near Enterprise, Oregon.

Studies show that a stressed animal is more likely to be a sick, scrawny, infertile animal — hardly the formula for business success if you’re a rancher or dairyman.

Tags Agricultural Sciences, cattle, cows, livestock, research animals, Temple Grandin

Healthy Planet Stewardship

An Ethical Tightrope

Post author By shermale
Post date January 30, 2013

Lynn Carlon, research technician at the OSU Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in Burns, Oregon soothes every cow with a head scratch following a vaccination.

Making ethical choices about animals can be a philosophical high-wire act — a precarious balance of practicality and principle. Weighing practical needs against “normative ethics” — right or wrong, good or bad, just or unjust — requires more than a handbook of do’s and don’ts.

Tags Environment & Natural Resources