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As settlers arrived in this country, farmland and urban areas often replaced native ecosystems, and the importance of protecting these systems was often overlooked. In the past few decades, land management professionals have learned that people cannot manage the earth, only what people do to it. Restoration returns land to its pre-settlement condition, and stewards of Lyman Woods and Belmont Prairie work to re-establish natural systems and maximize biodiversity.
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