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Prescribed Burns
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Prescribed Burns

Today, organizations prescribe fires to maintain certain ecosystems—and much like your doctor who prescribes medicine for certain reasons and tells you how to take them—prescribed fire is used to achieve

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Knee Deep In Knowledge
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Knee Deep In Knowledge

A newspaper article about a classroom water-quality monitoring program inspired honors biology teacher Connie Gannon to literally send her Waterford Mott High School students “up a creek” in Waterford, Mich.

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Taking Back Nature
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Taking Back Nature

The Rocky River is an urban waterway that flows 50 miles through Anderson County, S.C. It has a long history of degradation and abuse, including channelization of the river in the 1980s and

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Celebrating Water

Nature is local. While the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, what happens on the ground varies greatly.

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