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1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Quentin Septer

   Counting Birds in Missouri’s Diminished Tallgrass Prairie (opens the original)

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   BEFORE DAWN, WHILE most of Missouri is still asleep, Matt Longabaugh is already walking a prairie. He wakes around 4 a.m., drives to whatever grassland his crew is surveying that morning, and tries to be in position half an hour before sunrise. Fifteen minutes before the sun clears the horizon, he starts to walk, slowly, down a straight 400-meter line through the tall grass. He watches. He listens. He plots every bird he sees or hears on an iPad, tags its location, notes its species, estimates i

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Quentin Septer

   The Combat Biologist Taking the Forest Service to Court Over Logging (opens the original)

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   EVERY AFTERNOON, Sara Johnson sits down at her desk in Three Forks, Montana, and goes to work. She works from home. The Bridger, Madison, and Tobacco Root mountains define the horizon outside her window. The Jefferson River meanders in braided streams through a corridor of hundred-year-old cottonwoods. Migratory birds chirp, squawk, and sing, drawn by the thousands of Russian olive trees that Johnson and her ex-partner planted on their property years ago. “It’s peaceful,” she says. US Forest Ser

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