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The gardening season is rolling and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

Cattails have been described as the grocery store of the wild because every part of the plant is edible. During the growing season, three of these parts -- shoots, flowers and pollen -- provide easily ...

Cattails are the iconic swamp plant; most of us know that when we see cattails growing along a road or at the end of a meadow there will be the squishy muck of a marsh beneath. In the depths of winter ...

When it comes to cattails, I thought I had the subject pretty well covered. I had led many field trips to cattail marshes and conducted wetland seminars on the subject. And yet, totally by accident, I ...

These lovely days of May have spurred me to spend significant time wandering the trails that wind through my woods and wetlands. It's been delightful to spot wee warblers on the wing and watch the ...

Domestic cats are common in Leon County. Today’s couch ornament is a far cry from its immediate ancestors which were valued for their pest control skills. These feline predators prowled barns, ...

The plant: Where I grew up in Connecticut, cattails edged ponds where I’d watch salamanders gliding just under the water’s surface. Each fall, along with dried corn stalks and burnt-orange pumpkins, ...

If you dare, take a peek at the reality TV test of human survival skills on "Naked And Afraid." On each show a man and a woman must greet each other buck naked to begin their 21 day struggle to stay ...

Marshes ringed with cattails provide entertaining viewing opportunities in spring, when redwing blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, Canada geese, mallards and many other bird species are nesting ...