WEINER — Cutting trees to save a forest doesn’t seem logical on the surface, but that’s the exact prescription to cure what’s ailing Arkansas’s famous flooded timber – that and a re-examination of how and when to intentionally flood those trees to provide waterfowl habitat.

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