While its glossy, evergreen leaves are a wonderful counterpoint to the dead leaves of the forest floor, what caught my eye on ...

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Four dams and three large reservoirs were removed from the Klamath River in a project that finished last year. Acres of native wildflowers are now in bloom along the river’s edge.