Fresno County growers apply pesticides an average of 273,000 times per year; they don’t always stay in the fields for which they’re intended; they may lace the air and drift throughout town onto, say, the playground or people’s homes.
Read MoreThere are times during the year, he says, when the sky turns black as the sun disappears behind waves of birds that roll overhead. But this fall, when over 1.5 million birds return on their southern migration, the waterfowl had best make reservations at a Holiday Inn.
*winner of an honorable mention from the 2002 John B Oakes award
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