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Plan ahead for your spring garden

Spring is just around the corner, which means it's time to plan your garden. Whether you are planning your first garden, have an existing garden, or want to have a patio garden, the first step is giving your soil some TLC to make sure it is ready for planting.  Bill Shockey, WVU ...

SAMUEL: Why eat wild game?

West Virginia hunters have not had to worry about Covid while making extra trips to the store because many have deer meat in their freezer. Me too. I've been eating deer meat all of my life. My dad was a public school teacher and my mom a part-time secretary. Needless to say, with four ...

SAMUEL: How winter impacts our wildlife

A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me he’d seen bluebirds by his bird feeder and wondered how unusual that was for this time of year. I told him that it was unusual, but bluebirds can be found in our area in the winter, as long as we don’t have deep snows and extended periods of really ...

VIDEO: Banding, rehabilitating a bald eagle with lead poisoning

https://youtu.be/Q2Nusi_tVAk Jesse Fallon, director of veterinary medicine with the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia, talks about a 4-year-old bald eagle that recently came to his clinic in Cheat Lake, W.Va., with severe lead poisoning. The bird was found in Pocahontas County, ...

SAMUEL: How New York City handles deer problems

COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL In October 2019, I wrote about the deer problem on Staten Island. Actually, I wrote about the huge money that Mayor Bill de Blasio has been spending to solve their problem. And they do have a problem with deer with car-deer collisions, Lyme disease, shrub ...