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On the recordJune 24, 2014
If you manage so that you cover the ground, and you have more productive plants that then cover the ground all the time, you mitigate, you increase the ability of that ecosystem to survive the dry periods.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva discusses the importance of managing land for ecosystem resilience.

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