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LOCAL BOY RETURNS HOME TO SAVE EASTERN HEMLOCKS – Cornell University entomologist Mark Whitmore, a native of Buckley, Washington has made La Conner his base since January while scouring the north Puget Sound region for the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) an aphid-like, invasive insect. He sends branches of infested hemlocks east so the HWA’s predators can be harvested and grown to become a biological control released to save eastern hemlocks. – Photo by Ken Stern