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This summer, your climate is forecast to have above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation,” said Heffernan. “When you add in dryer than normal conditions, you have abnormal fire potential

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Firefighters battled three fires in Grand Teton National Park and three in Yellowstone during the weekend

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In the meantime, as some of the most brilliant minds in the world look for answers to the growing incidence of ADHD and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), this young guy has discovered — by himself — at least a partial solution to his dilemma.

It’s called a rod and reel.

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It’s a vision I’d pictured for the past year as I planned to visit what had become my favorite lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. I had been there four years prior, stayed a couple of nights and moved on.

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ABSAROKA-BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS — Picking months-dead, rotting trout from a monofilament gill net, Ben Bailey was sorry he had forgotten his surgical gloves back on shore.

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“My grandsons are building it with their own hands,” 83-year-old Heylman said, “and old granddad is right there with them.”

For the Heylmans, it is a dream come true. For the National Park Service, it is a nightmare.

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In an article about a hit-and-run by an ATV on the Bitterroot National Forest, the Missoulian quoted an off-roader who said that “99 percent of the people” don’t ride on closed roads. This is hard to believe based on all the scars in the forest.

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LOS OLIVOS, Calif.—A wildfire that charred 7,500 acres of wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest was 15 percent contained Saturday night, but still threatened structures as it burned through chaparral in Santa Barbara County.