Rural Wildlife Habitat Design

What can you do on your rural property to help wildlife survive and thrive? Join Clair Klock as he identifies a variety of conservation practices on various...

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Urban Wildlife Habitat Design

Urban Wildlife Habitat Design

Join Clair Klock as he reviews habitat considerations in the urban landscape! This video was produced for the Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation...

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Waterlogged: Unwanted Water!

Waterlogged: Unwanted Water!

Can water be too much of a good thing? Sometimes yes. Join Clair Klock as he describes the flood control dike in the Three Creeks Natural Area, installed after...

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Weed Control: Pastures and Open Land

Weed Control: Pastures and Open Land

Join Clair Klock in reviewing how to manage invasive weeds in pastures and open land. Clair discusses discing open fields, using rotational grazing to keep...

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Healthy Horses

Healthy Horses

Join Clair Klock in learning how to keep your horses healthy. Managing your runoff and mud are key steps to keeping your animals healthy. Taking care of manure...

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Horse Pasture and Manure Management Workshops

Horse Pasture and Manure Management Workshops

Developed in cooperation with Clackamas Community College and featuring several experts, this video presents three workshops. Workshop #1 is “Stuck in...

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Healthy Soils

Healthy Soils

Join Clair Klock and NRCS Soil Scientist Cory Owens on All You Need To Know about Healthy Soils! The video was produced for the Clackamas County Soil and Water...

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Irrigation 2.0

Irrigation 2.0

Join Clair Klock and guest expert Jim White of Ewing Irrigation in Everything You Need To Know About Irrigation. Topics include how to water your plants and...

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Currin Creek Restoration in Estacada

Currin Creek Restoration in Estacada

This stream restoration project on Currin Creek is located behind the Estacada High School. This is a SOLV Green Team project in partnership with the City of...

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Blueberry Care with Clair Klock

Blueberry Care with Clair Klock

Join Clair on his blueberry farm as discusses the three most important things you can do for your blueberry plants: weed, water, and prune. He demonstrates...

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Erosion Control on Christmas Tree Farms Part 1: Interview with Don Sturm

Erosion Control on Christmas Tree Farms Part 1: Interview with Don Sturm

Jeremy Baker is your host for this interesting interview with berry farmer and Christmas Tree grower Don Sturm of Sturm’s Berry Farm. Don grows berries...

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Erosion Control on Christmas Tree Farms Part 2: Interview with Bob Schaefer

Erosion Control on Christmas Tree Farms Part 2: Interview with Bob Schaefer

“Our soil is our lifeblood,” states Bob Schaefer of Noble Mountain Tree Farm. Bob talks with Jeremy Baker about the innovative soil erosion control...

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DIY Rain Gardens Episode 1: How to Build a Rain Garden

DIY Rain Gardens Episode 1: How to Build a Rain Garden

In this first video in our DIY Rain Gardens series, presenter Erik Carr covers where to locate your rain garden and how to calculate how big it should be....

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DIY Rain Gardens Episode 2: Infiltration Testing

DIY Rain Gardens Episode 2: Infiltration Testing

In the second video in our DIY Rain Gardens series, presenter Erik Carr shows how to conduct a water infiltration test on your land....

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Milk Creek Project Construction

Milk Creek Project Construction: 3 Weeks in 3 Minutes

Watch this time-lapse video to see the construction of a large vegetated log matrix structure. Construction took 12 days over a three-week period, and...

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Everything You Need to Know About…Rural Fences

Join Clair Klock and Kenn Evans as they review aspects of good country fencing. High-tensile New Zealand fencing is demonstrated, along with electric fencing...

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Pump sound

Pump sound

The old irrigation pump at the farm whines a bit but seemed to operate smoothly when tested on July 25, 2013....

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Pump test

Pump test

This is the first flush of the old irrigation pump when we started it on July 25, 2013. The intake is about 12 feet down in the pond....

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Sprinkler and line test

Sprinkler and line test

After we got the old irrigation pump primed and running, we hooked up some old line to the sprinkler to make sure it works. The line needs to be replaced,...

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The fertilizer cart

The fertilizer cart

This is the fertilizer cart the District rented to apply 19,920 pounds of pelletized lime to 5.8 acres of grass pasture....

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12 Days in 2 Minutes: Milk Creek Project Time Lapse Video

12 Days in 2 Minutes: Milk Creek Project Time Lapse Video

Watch this time-lapse video to see the construction of a large vegetated log matrix structure. Construction took 12 days over a three-week period, and...

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Overview of the Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District

Overview of the Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District

Why did the Clackamas SWCD form? Who governs and supports the District? What does the District do? Learn these things in two minutes!...

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Elk on the Eagle Creek Community Forest

Elk on the Eagle Creek Community Forest

May 7, 2019: An elk walks the road on the Eagle Creek Community Forest...

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Mountain Lion at the Eagle Creek Community Forest

Mountain Lion at the Eagle Creek Community Forest

April 27, 2019 – A mountain lion ambles along the road through the Eagle Creek Community Forest....

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