A Maryland couple bought 116 acres as a hunting property; 20 years later, they had replaced crops with native grasses, wildflowers and trees and permanently protected the land for wildlife

• Photo Credit: ESLC via easternshoreundercover.comWhen Louise and John Durocher bought 116 acres in Kent County, Maryland, the property was intended primarily as a hunting retreat.
• Over the next two decades, however, the couple gradually changed its purpose.
• They stopped growing crops and began restoring the fields with native grasses, wildflowers, shrubs and trees.