crowd: go, grafton! as much work as y'all can handle. we want to get this town back in shape. i'm feeling good about the fact that people are out this morning, and they're working. they're at city hall. they're at the loading dock, and they're all over town working on each individual little business. i feel the momentum. you doing okay? tammy: as we can be. lemonis: what's this stuff out front here? is this stuff... tammy: it's all going. lemonis: i'm gonna get you a dumpster out here. tammy: okay. lemonis: i'll get it cleaned up. we're gonna go to the fudgery. we'll clean all this up. edge this really tight. let's trim this tree up a little bit. what do you need here on this facility? kelly: right now mainly just, like, outside -- cleaning up and whatnot. that's... lemonis: pressure-washing the building? kelly: right. ♪♪ ♪♪ lemonis: after a long day of getting a lot of labor done outside, i did want to sit down with the mayor and his wife and really understand what the future of grafton looked like, and

lemonis: grafton, illinois, just outside of st.t-breaking. i'm marcus lemonis, and i want to see it for myself and really understand how small towns in america recover from a disaster like this. is this worse than you thought it was gonna be? peter: this is brutal.

this area in grafton ville was a very unliterary training area more than a century ago now it's run by the u.s. army it covers almost 230 square kilometers. the terrain is a kind of noah's ark living alongside 12000 soldiers all representatives of 3000 species of animal and plant more than 800 of them are endangered. it's an apt to mention humans practiced killing in the training grounds really leave while for nature this is pure life it sounds paradoxical is it. but all the areas in between are just pulsating would like that because here nobody is by using nature and digging the know today can feel. good in light of the works for the very nature conservation organization when new buildings are planned he's often called in to identify bird species at potential risk. splits isn't the i incident launch of military training areas are the only large tracts of countryside apart from national parks there are no pesticides are used most people don't realize that our farm land is sprayed several times a year with highly toxic substances. and they kill off most of the small organisms . wild mea