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BOISE, Idaho - For years, ATV-riding, gun-toting sport shooters have flouted gun laws in part of Idaho’s high desert by taking pot shots at ground squirrels and other animals.

Now, officials say, they’re also setting their sights on National Guard tanks that train in the area.

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BOZEMAN — Government, environmental groups and private landowners are working together on an experimental project to reduce roadkill as animals travel between the Greater Yellowstone area and protected lands to the north.

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In a 20-page report, leaders of the Izaak Walton League and other groups presented photos of snowmobile tracks on snow-covered wilderness trails and lakes and identified the specific locations. They also said that off-road vehicles have been driven and chain saws have been used illegally in the area.

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Chaffee County’s boating industry would get a jolt from a nationally recognized wilderness area adjacent to Browns Canyon, proponents of the legislation said Wednesday.

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JACKSON — Officials from the Shoshone National Forest said they would suspend a yearlong forest planning process pending more information about a legal decision affecting the management of national forests.

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I’m sure this is the kind of thing our friends over at Wild Wilderness enjoy.

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CUSTER, SD — The Black Hills National Forest and concessionaire Forest Recreation Management Inc. (FRM) announces pre-season sale prices of 30% off on its Day Use Passes from now until Friday, April 13, 2007.

Hurry now to save 30% off Standard and Premium passes. The public has until Friday, April 13, 2007 to take advantage of this great savings. This offer is not available with any other discounts.

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A new study of forest lands that burned in the 1990s in northern California and southwestern Oregon has concluded there is a “fair to excellent” chance that an adequate level of conifers will regenerate naturally, in sites that had no manual planting or other forest management