No one knows Washington secrets like Paul Bedard. This longtime D.C. reporter joined the Washington Examiner in 2012 after penning U.S. News & World Report's premiere political column, "Washington ...

According to the last plant survey done in 1989, the forest canopy cover on one spot along the peninsula was 80%; Bianchi and his colleagues note that it now has less than 30%. The botanists lament ...

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