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Ranger district personnel across the forest will be on the lookout for the illegal possession or use of fireworks in the forest. With the holiday being on a Friday this year, campgrounds are expected to be busy with a lot of day users, say forest officials

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By midday, the fire licking the edges of Big Sur’s legendary cliffs and funky getaways had receded from some of the rugged coast’s landmarks. At about noon, traffic on Highway 1 from the north was allowed to proceed about two miles farther down the narrow winding road, past the Post Ranch Inn resort.

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Absolutely amazing footage. This is the Northern Divide Grizzly Bear Project. The area is basically Glacier National Park + The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex + various surrounding national forest land.

This is the study that John McCain thinks is worthless.

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The remarkable scene was captured by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of a research project into the bear population in northwestern Montana. It’s one of several intriguing clips recently posted on the agency’s Web site that depict life inside Glacier National Park — from a bear rubbing its backside on a tree to a wolf feeding on an elk carcass.

I don’t think there’s any question this is the most pointless administration in U.S. history. Has this admin done a single thing to govern this country properly the last eight years – to even begin to prepare or have a plan for the changes we are seeing?

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White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicles, agency sources said yesterday. And upon learning that EPA had hit the “send” button just minutes earlier, the White House called again to demand that the e-mail be recalled.

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The abundance of behemoth fish attracted anglers from around the world in the early 1900s, including adventurers such as Ernest Hemingway and Zane Grey, who pulled in monsters from the clear, warm depths off Key West

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WASHINGTON (AP) — One million acres of public land near the Grand Canyon would be off limits to new uranium mining under an emergency declaration adopted Wednesday by a House committee.

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About 700 wildfires, many of them sparked by a severe electrical storm over the weekend, burned across much of the state, a point driven home for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as he traveled to central California to assess the damage there.

Very sad story. Ever walk through cougar country and think “this can’t happen to me”?

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Investigators concluded that Nawojski had been attacked and killed by a mountain lion, or cougar, at a spot close to his home, where he lived alone and was known to bathe and shave outdoors.

Absolutely hilarious.