Nature’s Laboratory

MOUNT VERNON — Rare October sunlight streamed through the alder and evergreen branches and dappled Trumpeter Creek below. The leaves had turned; many had already fallen and littered the stream bed. Soon, the chilly brook would be a spawning ground for coho salmon.

It wasn’t always this…

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