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Beyond the coin: Answers to your questions about Block Island National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>, The newest America the Beautiful quarter featuring Block Island National Wildlife Refuge provides a glimpse of the island\u2019s many treasures: a historic lighthouse, a scenic coastline, and one quirky wading bird.<\/p>\n

The elfin has landed: How military aircraft helped a rare butterfly<\/a>,\u00a0 In 2001, the New Hampshire Army National Guard undertook a major infrastructure project to accommodate new helicopters, and ended up making room for two imperiled species of butterflies as well.<\/p>\n

A New American Dream<\/a>,\u00a0 After living in a refugee camp in Nepal for 18 years,\u00a0Chuda Dhaurali found an opportunity to nurture his community and the land as the pilot goat farmer at Pine Island Farm in Vermont.<\/p>\n

Driven by instincts and a pickup truck\u00a0<\/a>– This five-part series follows an Atlantic salmon on its journey upstream to spawn in a tributary of Lake Champlain driven by its instincts, and a pickup truck. Learn why this species disappeared from the lake in the 19th century, and how it is making a comeback today thanks to scientific collaboration in the basin.<\/p>\n

Invasion of the body fluid snatchers<\/a> – The sea lamprey control effort in the Lake Champlain basin has all the elements of classic science fiction \u2014 bodily transformation, bloodsucking parasites, an alien-like invasion, and of course, a bold mission to restore order to the system again.<\/p>\n

A cheese that pairs well with dam removal<\/a> – The removal of the Norton Paper Mill Dam in Colchester, Ct., has opened 17 miles of upstream habitat for migrating fish, and a gateway for people to explore the charms of the small, rural community \u2014 fishing, paddling, history, cheese.<\/p>\n

Your commute to work: Does a river run through it?<\/a> –\u00a0 In the Northeast alone, there are an estimated 210,000 bridges, culverts, and dams spanning 280,000 miles of river — an average of one every 1.3 miles.<\/p>\n

It’s back to the future for loons in Massachusetts<\/a> – One of the nation’s leading authorities on loon conservation is spearheading a project to test out a restoration approach that could help agencies respond more effectively to threats to this vulnerable species.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the coin: Answers to your questions about Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, The newest America the Beautiful quarter featuring Block Island National Wildlife Refuge provides a glimpse of the island\u2019s many treasures: a historic lighthouse, a scenic coastline, and one quirky wading bird. The elfin has landed: How military aircraft helped a rare butterfly,\u00a0 … Continue reading My work<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-725","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bridgetmacdonald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}