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Chal Landgren is a Christmas tree specialist at Oregon State University’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora. Credit: Michelle Klampe, Oregon State University For those who ...

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Every winter, millions of Americans descend on farms and lots across the country with the express purpose of inspecting, and ultimately choosing from, their local selection of coniferous evergreen ...

This winter marks the 122nd annual Christmas Bird Count, a project of the National Audubon Society, which is self-described as the longest-running community science project in the country. What ...

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One of the events that I miss terribly ever since I relocated overseas, is the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). For much of my life, those three magical weeks -- from December 14th through January ...