Word: coachella
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...Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five years ago had been overrun by cattle and torched annually by ranchers and hunters. In California, at the Nature Conservancy's Coachella Valley Preserve, a few dozen volunteers felled thousands of salt cedar trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection...