Land Conservationists Take on the National Guard
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In Pennsylvania, charges have flown about a lack of concern for the public and past environmental abuses by the National Guard.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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More than 6,000 National Guard troops have been assigned to southwestern border states by the government's Aug. 1 deadline &#151; though only about half of them are on duty along the border, the Guard said Monday.
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jan. 31--A Botetourt County couple has put 265 acres into a conservation easement, joining a growing number of Western Virginia landowners who are protecting their property from development.
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By Story; photos by Monica Laszacs Special to My Life  From budding butterfly gardens and homemade bird feeders to bald eagles and recyclable artwork, residents across Millington and Tipton County learned how they can be conservationists of the earth.
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Police and conservation groups join forces to tackle wildlife crime along the Clyde coast.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 11--As President Bush boasts of increases in funding for national parks, his administration continues to take a few steps back in other areas related to the environment. Consider proposed funding for national wildlife refuges.
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By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer  Brunswick's Conservation Commission will ask the federal government to preserve a huge chunk of undeveloped land at Brunswick Naval Air Station for recreation and protection of plants and wildlife.
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At least thirty new Minnesota National Guard recruits were sworn-in today at the Capitol. Governor Pawlenty told the recruits, many of them high school seniors, that they were role models.
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By TOM GARDNER  RENO, Nev. - A national command team and three of the top firefighting teams in the country joined the battle Thursday against a 375-square-mile wildfire that has marched through rangeland during the past four days, threatening ranches, mines and wildlife habitat.
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The first wave of about 800 National Guard soldiers will head to the U.S-Mexico border as early as next week, including planners and leadership personnel who will stay longer than the planned 21-day missions, the National Guard chief told lawmakers Wednesday.
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A project supported by the United States is working to protect Afghanistanâs wildlife and develop its first official system of protected lands.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 27--The stereotype of conservatives has them admiring a stand of old-growth trees, then waving in the backhoes and logging crews to turn the forest into cash.
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Masai herders in Kenya have begun cutting fences and marching their livestock onto the private ranchland of white settlers, where wildlife thrives.
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A 1994 law strengthened job protections for National Guard and Reserve troops called to active duty. Here are major provisions of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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Farmers are part of a national movement to legalize growing a plant that is closely associated with marijuana.