The Overlooked Threat Your Fruit Trees Face in Winter (and How to Prevent It)

Removing this layer restricts the tree from moving water up from the roots or nutrients back down, a process known as ...
Grand Island Independent

Elizabeth Exstrom: ‘V’ is for ‘vole’ — more like a mouse, than a mole

We have been lucky this winter, but how long will our luck hold out? No, I am not referring to the amount of snow we have received or the “warm” winter temperatures we’ve had. Even in a winter like ...
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Extension educators seek solutions for vole problem

MOSCOW — When Idaho’s vole populations spike, environmental factors and a corresponding surge in predators usually bring their numbers back into equilibrium by the following year. In the Mud Lake area ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Underneath the snow in your yard, voles are tunneling away

I can bet big bucks on getting several questions about vole damage this spring after all our snow melts away and lawns again become the center of attention. This is because accumulations like we have ...
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UI Extension educators seek solutions for Idaho farmers vexed by voles

When Idaho’s vole populations spike, environmental factors and a corresponding surge in predators usually bring their numbers back into equilibrium by the following year. In the Mud Lake area of ...
OPB

Conservationists again sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife for denying Oregon red tree voles protection

The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast old-growth habitat to logging and wildfire. Conservation groups are again going to ...