For those who are interested, please see the link below to the IAE December
e-Newsletter.  Happy Holidays!

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   - The Camas pocket gopher - Small but fierce!
   - AmeriCorps Team Helps IAE Restore Prairies
   - Untangling soil nutrients, prairie communities, and golden paintbrush
   - Kincaid's Lupine and the effects of Climate Change
   - Our Top Twelve Proudest Moments of 2013

BONUS FEATURE!  *The Twelve Days of the Season, For Nerds:*

On the first day of (your favorite holiday here) my deeply committed
domestic partner gave to me:

   - A Perdix perdix in an arborescent Pyrus communis

On the second day (and so on):

   - Two Streptopelia turtur
   - Three Gaulish Gallus gallus domesticus
   - Four Turdus merula
   - Five aurelian finger adornments
   - Six actively oviparous Anser anser domesticus
   - Seven natatory Cygnus cygnus
   - Eight unmarried young females extracting moo juice from lactating
   bovines
   - Nine mature and respectable females frolicking
   - Ten saltatory and mature but not necessarily respectable male
   - Eleven musicians with carefully tuned tubes blowing through them
   - Twelve percussionists hitting sticks on cylinders surfaced with some
   poor animal’s hide

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*Tom KayeExecutive DirectorInstitute for Applied Ecology*
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Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
Oregon State University
2087 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

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