Agricultural producers upstream from the Oklahoma River are working to improve the North Canadian watershed, even as local and state health and agricultural officials continue to monitor the river that made about four dozen triathletes sick after swimming in it in May 2009. The Oklahoma River is the renamed seven-mile portion of the North Canadian […]
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Wind turbines threatening existence of the lesser prairie chicken
Technology may yet save the chickens. Those would be the lesser prairie chickens, the colorful birds that flee habitats where wind turbines are built. Apparently, the chickens think anything that rises above the horizon is a potential predator, such as a raptor. COLLABORATIONWYOMING PROBLEMS J.D. Strong, state environment secretary, said at the Oklahoma Wind Energy […]
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Mayor: ‘Mind-boggling’ number of paddle sports, boating events could come to Oklahoma City
o seniors who applied for the rebate during about the five years the original MAPS penny sales tax was in place, according to Tom Anderson, special projects manager for the City of Oklahoma City. The rebate was not used in the MAPS for Kids project. VIDEO The mayor said he knows it’s hard to visualize […]
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Tallgrass Prairie Preserve celebrates 20th anniversary
The endless horizon of Oklahoma’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve could have gone the way of the vast majority of tallgrass prairies ” plowed under for cropland or developed into urban sprawl. ULTIMATE STAYCATION LAST INTACT STRUT THEIR STUFF But for the past two decades, the 39,100-acre Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Northeastern Oklahoma near Pawhuska and its […]
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Tallgrass Prairie Preserve celebrates 20th anniversary
The endless horizon of Oklahoma’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve could have gone the way of the vast majority of tallgrass prairies ” plowed under for cropland or developed into urban sprawl. ULTIMATE STAYCATION LAST INTACT STRUT THEIR STUFF But for the past two decades, the 39,100-acre Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Northeastern Oklahoma near Pawhuska and its […]
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Oklahoma’s capacity to lead wind production leads to worker-preparation scramble
Thousands of available good-paying jobs are out there blowin’ in the wind ” literally. Several Oklahoma colleges and technology centers are straining to train qualified wind technicians, with the industry expanding exponentially as the quest for renewable energy gains even more traction with the encouragement of the Obama administration. TURBINE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM TOTAL INVOLVEMENT SITE […]
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Oklahoma’s capacity to lead wind production leads to worker-preparation scramble
Thousands of available good-paying jobs are out there blowin’ in the wind ” literally. Several Oklahoma colleges and technology centers are straining to train qualified wind technicians, with the industry expanding exponentially as the quest for renewable energy gains even more traction with the encouragement of the Obama administration. TURBINE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM TOTAL INVOLVEMENT SITE […]
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Agencies differ on what contaminated the Oklahoma River
A diagnosis has been made. Water exposure from the Oklahoma River, site of the May 16-17 Boathouse International Triathlon, made close to four dozen of the race’s 367 competitors sick, according to findings from an investigation by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. RACING RISK THE RIVER RUNS RUNOFF RUNAROUND PONDERING THE RIVER’S FUTURE But […]
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Oklahoma horticulture experts share lawn water-conservation tips
Las Vegas has long been the poster child for excess, particularly with regard to water. Huge water features adorn its glittery casinos, including pirate lagoons and expansive, computerized fountains. Excessive use of water is catching up with Sin City, however, which finds it increasingly difficult to meet its water needs. And lawns are one of […]
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Xeriscaping creates low-maintenance landscape easy on environment
Cactus and gravel, rocks and yucca. Xeriscaping, or quality landscaping to conserve water, doesn’t have to mean a dry, lifeless landscape with driftwood surrounded by gravel. SITE ANALYSIS LARGE TREES Casey Sharber, Oklahoma State University-Canadian County Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service horticultural educator, taught a landscaping for water conservation class at several OSU county extension centers. […]