The annual Lighthouse Point Park Migration Festival — A Celebration of Birds, Butterflies and Dragonflies runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

When Roland Levesque applied for the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), he never dreamed it would lead him to serve as protector of a very rare species. It began when Levesque planned on turning his hay fields into rotational grazing land for cattle, and controlling the invasives in his forest
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