Volunteers restored habitat at an Oklahoma preserve during fall migration
Nature Conservancy staff and Southeastern Oklahoma State volunteers worked at Pontotoc Ridge Preserve while hundreds of millions of birds pass over the state.
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Nature Conservancy staff and volunteers from Southeastern Oklahoma State University restored habitat at Pontotoc Ridge Preserve during the peak of fall migration. Hundreds of millions of birds pass over Oklahoma at this time of year.
The published account does not name the individual volunteers, give an acreage, or identify which species used the ground they worked. The reported result is the habitat work itself, timed to the migration.
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