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| photo by Andrea Geesaman |
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
Robert Frost
Conservation biologists in eastern North America have a huge job on their hands trying to manage two opposing trends in native wildlife. On the one hand, the populations of animals indigenous to our forests are on the increase while those of the grasslands are rapidly disappearing. It is an ironic twist of fate for these grassland species since, for at least several centuries, they have had the upper hand.
