Conservation
The Prairie Strips of Howard County
Across a single Iowa farm, twelve narrow strips of native prairie are filtering runoff, holding soil, and slowly persuading the neighbours.
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Conservation
Conservation as it actually happens — rewilding projects, invasive removal, restoration crews, watershed groups.
Conservation
The Shepherd and the Cliff: The Pembrokeshire Grazing Trials
On the coastal cliffs above the Pembrokeshire path, a small flock of Hebridean sheep is doing the work that machines and herbicides could not.
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The Watershed Keepers of the Upper Clinch
On a slow river in southwest Virginia, a four-person watershed group is monitoring water quality, sediment, and the freshwater mussels that depend on both.
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The Bog Buyers of County Mayo
A small Irish charity has spent four years buying turbary rights from individual farmers in order to restore the raised bog at Bellanaboy, one cutting at a time.
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What the Ladder Does: The Penobscot Salmon Retrofit
A 14-month retrofit of the fish ladder at the Milford Dam was finished in October 2025. The salmon counters are still waiting to see what difference it makes.
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Pulling the Olives Out of Belair Park
Outside Adelaide, a volunteer crew has spent eleven years removing African olive from a single 838-hectare park, and they are not finished.
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The Bloom After the Mine: Wildflower Restoration in McDowell County
In southern West Virginia, a former surface-mine bench is being seeded back to native meadow by a six-person crew that learned the work from a county extension agent who refused to retire.
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The Mesa Comes Back: Rewilding a Cattle Ranch in Southern Colorado
On a 4,200-acre former cattle ranch in the San Luis Valley, a small crew is pulling fence, plugging gullies, and waiting for the elk to remember the route.