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Group continues push to save trees in NW Ind. bog
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A group of northwestern Indiana residents is trying again to stop the National Park Service from cutting down 3,400 trees in a bog at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Members of the Coalition to Protect Cowles Bog Area...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Wetlands, Crime, Law and Justice
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1 man dead from rodent disease at Yosemite
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Yosemite National Park officials say a man is dead and a woman is recovering after contracting a rare rodent-borne disease in a popular lodging area. Park officials said Thursday that tests confirmed the man...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses
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Indiana Dunes seeks to draw more overnight guests
PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A popular Indiana vacation spot hopes to draw more visitors who stay overnight and spend more money. Members of the Dunes National Park Association want to promote the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as an overnight... -
18-year-old dies in 400-foot fall in Yellowstone
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service says an 18-year-old woman has died after falling 400 feet in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Park Service says she was a Yellowstone concession employee on her first day in... -
Group calls for study of Ind. Dunes boundaries
PORTER, Ind. (AP) — A national parks advocacy group says the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in northwestern Indiana are confusing. The Times of Munster reports (http://bit.ly/u7qYdW) the National Parks Conservation...Tags: Travel, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure
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Search for grizzly connected to hiker's death
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The search for a grizzly bear connected to a hiker's death in Yellowstone National Park continued Sunday, with no word on whether the bear was responsible for a killing a man hiking in the backcountry last...Tags: Michigan, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks
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Surgeons save thumb of injured Yosemite climber
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Officials at Yosemite National Park say a rock climber whose thumb was severed when he fell and it was caught in a rope has had the thumb reattached by surgeons. Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb says two climbers...Tags: Yosemite National Park, Travel, Climbing, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks
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Park rangers: Bear in mauling only protecting cubs
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A grizzly bear that mauled a 57-year-old hiker to death in Yellowstone National Park was only defending its cubs and had not threatened humans before. So park officials on Thursday decided to leave it alone...Tags: Travel, Science and Technology, Biology, California, Illinois
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Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Some of the Great Lakes' treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former...Tags: Indiana, U.S. Department of the Interior, Nature, Botulism, Travel
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Northern California dog owners howl over proposed leash rules
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new federal proposal to tighten leash rules on parkland in and around San Francisco has many dog owners barking mad. The 2,400-page plan released earlier this month by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the country'...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Travel, Human Interest, Tourism and Leisure, Gardens and Parks
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House Republicans move to slash domestic programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House promised Thursday to slash domestic agency spending by almost 20 percent in their drive to bring it back to levels in place before President Barack Obama took office. House Budget Committee...Tags: Home Heating, Travel, Iowa, Space Programs, Elections
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Furlough Friday: Budget cuts mean an unpaid day off for many at IRS, HUD and other agencies
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide. It was "furlough Friday." Roughly 5...Tags: Government Debt, Government, U.S. Department of the Interior, Public Finance, Taxation
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