Invasive grasses choke birds' habitat

HOUSTON COUNTY, Minn. – Andy Beebe and his crew move deliberately through the slough, their boots squelching in wet black silt left by the latest flood.

They push metal planters into the mud, pull bare-root seedlings from bags at their waists, and bend to tuck them into the mucky soil. Then they poke in a red flag to mark the twigs.

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