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Farmers find flooded fields can help birds, crops
Posted: 05.17.2010 at 8:55 AM
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Dave Hedlin leans against his truck as he talks about having taken part in an experiment that flooded about 20 acres of his farmland to provide wetland habitat for migratory shorebirds near La Conner, Wash.  / AP photo
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Northwest farmers temporarily flooding fields to help shorebirds, improve land for crops

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