If You Restore It, They Will Return | Ed Stone and Michelle Schraeder, Stone-Schraeder Conservation Easement
Editor’s note: This story originally ran with Michelle Schraeder’s last name misspelled as “Schrader.” It has been updated here. Our deepest apologies for this inaccuracy. On a quiet stretch of land near Everson, where Ten Mile Creek winds through marshland and meadow, Ed Stone kneels beside a spring-fed channel surrounded by canary grass, the invasive species that once hid dozens of natural springs. Decades of patient restoration show in every clear, cold trickle. The…

