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recovering an arid SW forest

 
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This article was very inspiring to me.  When this guy was a kid, he started recovering this forest.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-rio-grande-valley-was-once-covered-in-forest-one-man-is-trying-to-bring-it-back/

Now it's his full time job.  Climate change makes it worse.  They are making it happen in a tough place!
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great story

John Daley Bendigo, Australia The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
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