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SCV Outdoor Report

    SCV Outdoor Report: You CAN Be Too Rich


    By:  Wendy Langhans


     


    Remember the old saying, “You can never be too rich or too thin”?  Well you can be.  Too nutrient rich, that is.  Especially if you’re a salt-water marsh.  Scientists working at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory recently reported “that nutrients—such as nitrogen and phosphorus from septic and sewer systems and lawn fertilizers—can cause salt-marsh loss.”


    SCV Outdoor Report: Pollen Navigation

    By:  Wendy Langhans

     

    During allergy season , I sometimes wonder if pollen grains have their own navigation system .  If that’s true, then their map for the Santa Clarita Valley must have a fluorescent orange locator pin labeled “Wendy’s nose”.  (Thank goodness for antihistamines.)

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    SCV Outdoor Report: Sitting Duck

     

    By:  Wendy Langhans

     

     

    SCV Outdoor Report: Limber Lumber

    By:  Wendy Langhans

    Sinuous - an adjective that can describe a graceful shape (curving, winding, meandering) or a movement (supple, flexible, limber).  That is an apt description of oaks in the “Oak Grove” at Descanso Gardens.

    SCV Outdoor Report: Terminal Buzz

    By:  Wendy Langhans

     

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