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The Age of Accelerating Extinctions at the Santa Fe Ski Basin

HIRTY YEARS AGO, I learned how to hunt mushrooms with the guidance of a renowned naturalist, Bill Isaacs. For five summers, my son and I went mushroom hunting with Bill, in a class sponsored by the Santa Fe Community College, at different sites in northern New Mexico, though we focused particularly

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