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Brownfields as hotspots, thicket vs lawn, suburban yards reconfigured for bluebirds, riparian corridors.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been a working migrant trap for a century and a half. The cemetery model is being quietly replicated, with varying success, in cities across the eastern United States.
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On the exposed mudflats of Kentucky's Lake Barkley in early winter, a small revolution in waterfowl distribution is playing out. Reservoir shorelines, managed for hydrology, are quietly producing some of the continent's most productive inland wintering habitat.
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On the high marsh at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, the saltmarsh sparrow is timing its nesting to a tide cycle that no longer offers the margin it once did. The species may not have the decade.
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Across the eastern United States, transmission corridors managed on a six-to-ten-year cutting cycle now hold some of the region's best remaining grassland and shrubland bird habitat. The utilities, mostly, did not plan for this.
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Eighteen months after the last of four dams came down on the Klamath River, a slow-moving willow restoration is reshaping the riparian corridor and the bird community that depends on it.
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Margaret Eldridge has run a five-box bluebird trail through her cul-de-sac in Cary for nineteen years. The data tell a story about what suburban land can still do, when one person decides to do it.
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Across two summers in southern Pennsylvania, a small study compared nesting success in mowed pasture, abandoned pasture, and managed thicket. The thicket won by a margin no one disputes anymore.
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On the cracked slab of a former steel coking plant on the Monongahela, a chestnut-sided warbler sings from a sumac no one planted. The brownfield is doing the work no one budgeted for.