Washington State Conservation Commission

Healthy urban trees cool our towns, block the wind, and enrich our garden soils.  You can help by planting trees in your community. 

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“If you build it, they will come.” Those hauntingly whispered words drove the main character in the movie, Field of Dreams, to build – strangely enough – a baseball diamond in the middle of his Iowa corn field.  NRCS Public Affairs Officer Ron Nichols said that when it comes to wildlife, the “If you build it” expression made famous in the movie, is true. “If you build better habitat,” he said, “wildlife will come.” 

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