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Movin' On Up

Loggerhead sea turtle.
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Rants from the Hill: Hedgehog comes to the High Desert

"Rants from the Hill” is cross-posted from High Country News Welcoming a fifteen-million-year-old animal to the Ranting Hill “Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. 
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The Memory of a Place

Ecological restoration is inspirational in the sense that you connect with the earth in a new or different way. I find that I reflect on the history—or what I believe to be the history—of the place I am working. My mind wanders to how this place has gone through changes. Did a stream flow through here, were populations of deer, elk, or bison ever present? Did Native Americans alter the site, use it for supplies, harvest food?
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The Value of a Good Checklist

The best-laid plans of mice and men may go astray, but a checklist still helps.

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