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One Man’s Battle Against the Russian Olive

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The Russian olive tree is a notorious invasive species around Bears Ears and Grand Staircase鈥揈scalante National Monuments. Since 1999, working along the Escalante River in southern Utah, aging park ranger Bill Wolverton has hacked and chainsawed his way through more than聽40 miles of Russian olive trees. Love of Place, from , documents his journey to聽restore his beloved river.聽

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