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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Incredibly, vegetation started growing right away in the sediment exposed behind the dams as reservoirs were drained. Even though some of the sediment is very fine, grass started to take right off. More than 800 acres of bare ground like this will be replanted with native plants after the dams come out, to help re-establish a native forest and get ahead of weeds.
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