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Guest Post: Ditches are a vanishing paradise

By David Marston, Writers on the Range

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Jul 27, 2022
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Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from David Marston, publisher of Writers on the Range. I like this piece because it echoes a lot of my mixed emotions about ditches, especially the leaky, inefficient ones that foster their own quasi-riparian ecosystems and wetlands. The photos are from the North Farmington Ditch, which wends its way along the main d…

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