Someday, 200-foot-tall trees will tower where soybeans now grow, part of an intact forest on an otherwise-crowded coast, Yet while Graham plants trees year after year, harbingers of his success are already bursting from the underbrush, I remember in 1999, 2000, you couldn't find a bobwhite quail anywhere, period," he says. "If you saw one on Milford Neck, it was in a cage in the back of some boy's truck." Today Milford Neck has plenty of bobwhite quail, thanks to Graham's forest restoration work. Italso has turkeys, woodcocks, black ducks - species that you just didn't see much 10 years ago. "This is like, whoa, big stuff" says Graham.
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