Author Archives: Jenifer Cruickshank
Join us for a Voles, Dogs and Raptors Field Day
Time: Thursday April 11, 2024, 12:00 to 3:00 pm Location: Pedee Creek Barn – 12935 Kings Valley Highway, Monmouth, OR 97361 Register Here: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/events/voles-dogs-raptors-field-day Free, but space is limited. Join us at Double J Jerseys dairy farm for lunch and … Continue reading
Second Year of Trapping (2023)
A Full Trapping Season We trapped at three sites in winter 2023: an irrigated dairy pasture, an irrigated forage field, and an unirrigated forage field. These sites were on three different farms, one in Marion County and two in Polk … Continue reading
First Year of Trapping (2022)
Reduced Trapping Season The delays we experienced due to the leptospirosis issue meant we missed the January-February 2022 window of opportunity to focus our removals on would-be breeders before breeding season began. However, we persisted in running one round of … Continue reading
Voles, Drones, and Dogs: a Workshop
OSU is hosting a workshop on Voles, Drones, and Dogs to introduce two current vole management projects. Please consider joining us. When: Thursday, December 1, 2022, 1:00-4:30 Where: Chemeketa Community College Agricultural Hub (Building 60) Room 102, 4000 Lancaster Dr. … Continue reading
Preparation Work for the Trapping Study
To develop our trapping protocols, we did some preliminary field work in the fall of 2021. In a dairy pasture with signs of vole activity (holes, runs, fresh feces in runs) and even some vole sightings, we investigated burrow structure … Continue reading
There are voles in those holes! (An introduction)
We’ve started this project because we’re interested in learning how to better manage rodent pests, with a focus on voles. Voles, you say? Yes, voles. Sometimes mis-referred to as field mice, these small rodents resemble mice, but they have a … Continue reading