The current issue of Agricultural Research has an article about the preservation of two heirloom sheep breeds, the Hog Island and the Leicester Longwool.
I always enjoy having an excuse to read about wool on company time.
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About the author
Sarah Goslee has been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala's String Page. Science and fiction are located here.Find me all around the Internet: Ravelry (account required), Flickr, LibraryThing, Twitter, and Goodreads.