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Returning animals to nature is the goal of Northwest Wildlife Rehabilitation Center | When it comes to animals, Stacy Gaber has come a long way since her youth on her parent's spread in Missouri with cattle, turkeys and other critters. "I was scared to death of birds," she says. "I was attacked by a chicken as a child." |
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Bellingham family with two pugs learns that mushrooms can be fatal to pets | On Nov. 2, Renee Bliss of Bellingham was in Seattle helping a friend find flowers for a wedding and her husband, Bill, was out of town on business when she learned the terrible news. Their son Dustin had gone to their house on Lake Whatcom and found Milo, the family's 8-year-old pug… |
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Panel to discuss Western Reads book Oct. 25 | |||
Record dry weather in September for Bellingham expected to continue in October | This September was the driest on record in Bellingham, and the dry spell is expected to stretch into the first part of October here and in other parts of Western Washington, according to the National Weather Service. No measurable rain fell last month, according to official totals at… |
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Otto named to national group studying undergraduate life sciences education | |||
Former resident named to change biology education | Joann Otto, a former East County resident and daughter of the late Sen. Glenn Otto and Helen Otto, has become one of 40 scientists tasked with changing how life sciences are taught. Otto is a professor and chairwoman of the biology department at Western Washington University in Bellingham… |
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Moths Of The Pacific Northwest | A Western Washington University biology professor, along with hundreds of other naturalists, biologists and moth collectors, has launched a comprehensive website to keep track of local moths. Turns out we have our fair share in the Pacific Northwest. We look at the region's diversity of… |
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Moths hold the spotlight in first comprehensive guide to Northwest species | Butterflies are easy to love, but their night-flying cousins have always been a little harder to cozy up to. A group of Northwest biologists hopes to change that with the first comprehensive guide to the region's moths. |
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²ÝÁñÉçÇø, Bellingham collector help launch new website exploring Pacific Northwest moths | Lars Crabo's hunt for a moth once took him to sandy soil near Vale, Ore., in the mid-1990s. It was hot, dry, dusty and desolate that night. Crabo wore shorts, sandals or maybe it was beat-up boat shoes, and a head lamp. There were black widow spiders crawling all over the ground, and… |
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National Moth Week kicks off with release of photographic encyclopedia of Northwest moths | It's National Moth Week. Have you made plans yet? Merrill Peterson, a biology professor at Western Washington University, has. With the help of colleagues from around the world, he has released an online encyclopedia of Northwest moths. This new catalog includes high-… |