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  • How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

    Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (1999). “For the health of the land: previously unpublished essays and other writings”, Island Pr