The Wilderness Sportsman

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The man, in his late 50s, was apparently taking photographs of a female grizzly and her cub along Trout Creek when he was attacked, park spokesman Al Nash said.

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“Officers were faced with near riot conditions on two separate nights involving approximately 1,000 people which required all available officers and over 5 hours to mitigate the situation… Groups of partiers were blocking an area and forcing women to bare their breasts in order to leave, along with numerous incidents of unwanted fondling of women. When law enforcement officers took action, the crowd became unruly, throwing objects at the officers.”

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LAS CRUCES — The boundary lines are drawn, now it will be up to Congress to decide whether they get approved later this year.

Conservationists, sportsmen and members of various community groups signed a memorandum of understanding that could help lay the framework for Doña Ana County wilderness legislation in the U.S. Senate.

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Appropriators in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to vote today to increase spending on national parks, wildlife refuges, global warming research, and environmental regulation. The draft fiscal 2008 spending bill will be marked up today by the Interior-Environmental Appropriations Subcommittee.

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Tent? Check. Sleeping bags? Check. Firewood? Leave it home.

That’s the word from a rising number of state and federal officials battling the emerald ash borer, a half-inch, green insect responsible for the death and decline of more than 25 million ash trees in the United States.

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Last year, the U.S. government paid $48.5 million to build roads through our largest national forest so logging companies could get in there and cut it down. Taxpayers recovered $500,000 of that investment, about what was expected given the worldwide timber glut. What part of that sounds like a good idea? Nevertheless, the U.S. Forest Service is poised to do it all over again.