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What Lives, and Dies, on Tule Mats

Along the marsh’s edge at Cache Creek Nature Preserve, 20 miles northwest of Sacramento, Diana Almendariz harvests bundles of tule (Schoenoplectus acutus)— green, smooth cylinders up to 10 feet high. With a knife, she cuts the giant sedge, about as thick as a nickel, at their full height, while avoiding stalks where red-winged blackbirds and marsh […]

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