Tillamook County Master Gardener Association
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In Phytoremediation, Plants Extract Toxins from Soils
Researchers have a cheap, easy way for cleaning up oil spills: letting plants do the work. Why isn’t it used more often? Imagine a field contaminated by an oil spill. The toxins have reached deposits of water, and fumes have…
Read MoreOde to Nehalem River
My cousin from Eastern Oregon sent me this poem she saw on a friend’s Facebook page. As a Nehalem’ite’ for a very long time, it appealed to me and I thought it would to others, too. It is written by…
Read MoreUnder (Re) Construction
Please bear with me as I work my way through WordPress tutorials. Just when I think I have something ‘just so’ and hit ‘preview’ – boom! the old image is still there and it won’t go away. So I believe…
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