The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts
Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a disappearing art.
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The drugs of the future are in the animals of the past
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Call a spade a spade
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One biologist drove cross-country not for the cicadas, but for the fungus that infects them.
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Forget Cocaine Bear, it’s cocaine-impacted birds we need to worry about.
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