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The fire was 15% contained as of Tuesday. Only an outhouse had been destroyed.

BBC News By Claire Marshall Published Some farmers are looking towards older practices in a bid to improve the quality of the meat they produce, boost the soil health in their fields, and help to mitigate climate change. The cow pats on Peter Greig's farm are "the real deal", he says. Squatting in a field, he examines dozens of holes excavated by dung beetles in just a few hours. "Inside that cow pat there is an absolute industry. There are billions of bacteria, hundreds of species of life, working away at what real farming is about." His farm, Pipers Farm, nestles beneath the wilds of Exmo...

One tree at a time, volunteers and activists grow a new forest of Louisiana cypress trees Young trees may already provide a degree of hurricane protection Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Near the St. Bernard-Plaquemines Parish line, not far from the Mississippi River, 20-25 foot tall cypress trees appear as though they have been there for decades. In fact, most of them are less than a decade old. “This tree is flushing out with the spring and, for all intents and purposes, it looks really, really happy,” said Eva Hillmann, Ph.D., a coastal scientist with the Pont...

Acer saccharum At first, it might seem counterintuitive to plant red maple in a sugar maple forest. Red maples can be tapped, but the sap is a little less sweet, meaning it requires more boiling to make desirable syrup. Red maple doesn't live as long as sugar maple, but it has a few advantages: a broader range, more adaptability to different conditions, and characteristics unappealing to the forest tent caterpillar, a pest that munches sugar maple leaves with abandon. At UVM's Proctor Maple Research Center, researchers have tapped more and more red maples; the trees now account for...

The battle is on every time Ultra4 Racing hits the road, and this past weekend was no different as the organization behind King of the Hammers started their 2021 regional season out in Moab, Utah. Kicked off at the tail-end of this year's Easter Jeep Safari, great weather and over 100 racers, including big names like the Campbell and Gomez Brothers crews, Loren Healey and Vaughn Gittin Jr. of Team Fun-Haver, and other Nitto standouts like Cody Addington, Paul Horschel and Bailey Cole, made for an amazing weekend of wheel-to-wheel racing at the King Shocks Area BFE Beatdown! The first event of...