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  • Black and white illustration of a giant watering a forest with a watering can.
    Until the early 1950s, people mined copper, gold, and silver in the Beartooth Mountains in Montana. During mining operations, the…
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    Let Nature Take Its Course: Helping the Environment Take Care of Itself

  • PDF preview of the Spanish version of "Let Nature Take Its Course"
    Until the early 1950s, people mined copper, gold, and silver in the Beartooth Mountains in Montana. During mining operations, the…
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    Let Nature Take Its Course: Helping the Environment Take Care of Itself (Spanish)

  • PDF preview of "Logjams and Beaver Dams" article.
    Scientists know little about the movement of litter and dead wood from forests to rivers in mountainous temperate ecosystems. Studying…
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    Logjams and Beaver Dams: How Different Landforms Affect the Amount of Carbon in an Ecosystem

  • The cover for the 'My Sediments Exactly' article. The main image is a photo of a mangrove forest.
    The scientists in this study wanted to identify which mangrove forests, growing in various conditions, were keeping up with sea…
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    My Sediments Exactly! – Can Mangrove Forest Sediments Keep up With Rising Sea Level?

  • The cover of "Oxbow Soil Vitality: Is it Healthy?" featuring a sprout coming out of soil being held in the palm of a hand
    The student scientists used the Soil Quality Index (SQI) to determine the overall health of soils at the Oxbow. (This…
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    Oxbow Soil Vitality: Is it Healthy?

  • The cover of the Sediment-al Journey article. The main image is a photo of people enjoying water sports in Baltimore Harbor.
    Chemicals from auto emissions, industrial processes, and urban development are found in most urban areas. Two of the chemicals found…
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    Sediment-al Journey: Measuring Metal Concentrations in Soil Beside Urban Waterways

  • PDF preview of SPLAT article
    Mountain pine beetles are a natural part of the environment in forests of the Western United States. However, because of…
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    SPLAT! Protecting Pine Trees in the Western United States from Beetle Attack

  • The cover of "The GLAS Is Half Full" featuring an illustration of a Landsat satellite.
    The scientists wanted to know if the information gathered by satellites was as good as the information they would get…
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    The GLAS Is Half Full: Satellites and Changing Tropical Forests

  • An owl's face with the title "The Great Horned Owl in the Oxbow"
    In this study, the student scientists wanted to determine if the Oxbow is a good habitat for the great horned…
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    The Great Horned Owl in the Oxbow

  • PDF Preview of the article Morel of the Story
    Mushroom hunting is a specialized skill that takes years to learn. Wild mushroom species are difficult to identify, and many…
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    The Morel of the Story: Comparing Scientific Research with Local Mushroom Hunters’ Knowledge of Morel Mushrooms

  • The Plot Thickens - How Native Trees Responded to the Removal of an Unwanted Tree Species in Forest Study Plots. The background is an image of a Tamaligi Forest.
    The scientists in this study were interested in two questions: (1) How are tamaligi trees impacting the native forests in…
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    The Plot Thickens – How Native Trees Responded to the Removal of an Unwanted Tree Species in Forest Study Plots

  • A black and white drawing of a bat
    The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land…
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    The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest