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Fighting hybrid cattails with fire proves tough, underscoring the need for expertise
This is not a story of a successful habitat restoration. Instead, this is a chronicle of a less-than-totally-successful operation in which, nevertheless, lessons were learned.
In the middle of Crow Wing County, Minn., land that my family has owned since the mid-1960s sits a 30-acre wetland. When I was a kid, it was a vibrant Tamarack bog with open water in which ducks and geese would land. My mom tells stories of catching largemouth bass in the pond.
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I hit my breaking point somewhere around 10,800 feet. I was five days into my
Fighting hybrid cattails with fire proves tough, underscoring the need for expertise
This is not a story of a successful habitat restoration. Instead, this is a chronicle of a less-than-totally-successful operation in which, nevertheless, lessons were learned.
In the middle of Crow Wing County, Minn., land that my family has owned since the mid-1960s sits a 30-acre wetland. When I was a kid, it was a vibrant Tamarack bog with open water in which ducks and geese would land. My
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