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Environment & Energy

dbackjon

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5. On our farm in northern Illinois

Reply to mopinko (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 9, 2014, 12:47 PM

Aug 2014

We have never channelized the creek that flows for the property

There is still a grassy buffer between the fields and the creek. Once it leaves our land it's channelized and they grow crops right to the edge of it

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