Started as a landfill now it's a huge prairie
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00:00So there's really a lot of wildlife that started to come back and use this as a grassland.
00:30And for us, it's interesting to watch because it's not the native ecosystem.
00:34So this was all tidal wetlands. Now it's grasslands.
00:38It kind of gives us this sort of time point zero that is rarely available in this type of ecology work.
01:00We have this year about 45 nesting pairs of grasshopper sparrows,
01:06which was not expected whatsoever as they are very uncommon.