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Classrooms without walls

Students from 24 school districts across the Island are studying out in the field, fighting for wildlife and saving open spaces

On a Friday last month so blustery that umbrellas provided little shelter from the chilling rains, several William Floyd High School students elected to spend the morning outdoors.

They sloshed through the mud of the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley -- some wearing dark green waders, but most in jeans and sneakers -- on a mission to save the birds and snakes, turtles and deer...

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