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Evacuation orders remained in effect at the Baker’s Hole Summer Cabins, the Lake Shore Summer Homes, the Madison Arm Resort, the Baker’s Hole Campground and a state game warden cabin.

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Beginning Saturday morning, campfire and smoking restrictions will be enforced within the Coronado National Forest.

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Besides logging, the plan would have allowed building or refurbishing more than 20 miles of roads, the construction of two culverts and the development of ridge-top ponds in part of the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern Kentucky.

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My best friend, his wife and three daughters were wrapping up a summer road trip by visiting us for a few days. Our two families opted for a visit to Mount Rainier National Park over a trip to Seattle

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BENTON, Ill. (AP) – A timber logger must pay more than $19,000 in damages for cutting trees in part of southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest nearly a decade ago.

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A 900 acre fire continues to burn outside the town of West Yellowstone, Montana. It is being called the Madison Arm Fire.

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The Horse Creek fire was burning 2,200 acres eight miles west of Merna Tuesday, up from about 1,200 Monday afternoon. Firefighters had expected to have the blaze contained early this week, but had only contained 10 percent as of Tuesday afternoon.

Yeah, those awful clean water grants. Better veto those. Also, the bill would cut back on taxpayer funding for logging roads in the Tongass National Forest and stops offshore drilling.

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Democrats argue such programs have gotten short shrift for years under President Bush’s leadership, but their resulting increases for items such as Environmental Protection Agency clean water grants have incited the White House into threatening to veto the bill as “irresponsible and excessive.”

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Between 2001 and 2007, funding for the Interior Department fell by 16 percent, for the EPA by 29 percent and for the Forest Service non-fire budget by 35 percent, when adjusted for inflation, Dicks said.

Don’t they alreadyhave enough? The Allegheny National Forest is one of the most drill-ridden forests in the nation.

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The Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Association and Pennsylvania General Energy have appealed provisions of the new Allegheny National Forest management plan that it claims infringe on the rights of oil and gas companies to drill in the forest.