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Grey County officials have fingers crossed after ROMA

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Grey County pitched health-care, transit and other requests to provincial officials at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in Toronto last week. Now, they wait.  Thursday at county council, the county’s deputy chief administrative officer, Randy Scherzer, summarized the meetings county staff and councillors had with senior Ontario government officials.  The county asked the Ministry […]

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An ecosystem engineer’s vision: mock beaver dams to restore Wisconsin wetlands

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An ecosystem engineer’s vision: mock beaver dams to restore Wisconsin wetlands

This article, first posted here, was republished with permission from Wisconsin Watch.

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches.

At 63, the semi-retired handyman from the Wisconsin city of Black River Falls has trapped beavers before.

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