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Oysters once dominated the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the Bay to return to full ecological health without restoring Crassotrea virginica to its glory days of the Chesapeake’s apex filterer.

The most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history began on Sept. 6, 2010. James Kaste, associate professor of geology at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ, teamed up with an undergraduate geology major to study the floods that followed it.