WORKING WITH NATURERIDDING A CHERRY ORCHARD OF GOPHERS

摘要

TIM DAHLE HAS been farming cherries for more than 40 years. If there's one thing he wishes he'd known early on about gophers, it's that old saying about diplomacy: The enemy of my enemies is my friend."We have many potential allies in nature, and building homes for those allies, like barn owls, is one of the best things we can do," he says. "It's something we can do, we can control. Coyotes might be more effective at limiting populations, but we can't control coyotes."