Working in Acadia National Park one recent morning, Sarah Nelson, a biological geochemist at the University of Maine, stood with her five assistants in boots and waders and jabbed at the sediment on the bottom of Hodgdon and Seal Cove ponds with long-handled nets.Their target was dragonfly larvae, and the samples they took to a lab on campus would be identified, analyzed and finally incinerated.In...
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