Sheep pine for absent friends: official
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The Cambridge University team which discovered that sheep prefer happy, smiley people has once again pushed back the envelope of ovine understanding with the revelation that sheep cheer up when they see snaps of friends and relatives.
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An inspector general's report charges that top U.S. housing official Alphonso Jackson urged staff members to favor friends of President Bush when awarding Department of Housing and Urban Development contracts. But investigators so far have found no direct proof that Jackson's staff obeyed.
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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By Lisa Gibson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 4--A new resident has made a temporary home in Grand Forks on the smiley-face water tower off Washington Street.   A male peregrine falcon has been living in a nest box on the tower since mid-April.
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Â· 'PM and family complicit as troops loot forests'Â·  Watchdog says world's donors turn blind eye
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By Eric Olson  OMAHA, Neb. - Fred Jaeger doesn't care what the National Arbor Day Foundation says. He's not going to attempt planting magnolia trees on his land in a Utah mountain valley.   He'll stick with Canadian chokecherries and ash.
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To: PHOTO EDITORS  Contact: Erika Viltz of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9542, erika.viltz@wwfus.org   WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Skip the traditional chocolates and flowers for your sweetie this Valentine's Day.
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By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Wooded Island's "Bird Man" is back -- but that doesn't mean Doug Anderson now approves of measures taken to remove several hundred shrubs and small trees on the bird-lover's paradise.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Mar. 11--LYTLE CREEK -- It still takes some luck or knowledge to sight bighorn sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the chances of spotting one have grown.
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Raisin farmers meet yak herders? Must be the Slow Food f te. Raisin farmers meet yak herders? Must be the Slow Food f te.
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By Anonymous  The announcement in Septem
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'It'll be lonely, this Christmas, without you to hold...'
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To: National Desk, Environment Reporter  Contact: Tom Lalley of World Wildlife Fund, 202-778-9544 or tom.lalley@wwfus.org  WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /U.S.
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Activists are concerned that conversion of the native hardwood forest to fast-growing pine is damaging crucial habitat for hundreds of plants and animals.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 4--An open-space fund that's supported by Ocean County property  taxpayers will lend Stafford nearly $2.4 million to fulfill its obligations  for preserving Pinelands forest.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 26--Partners in the project to restore gray wolf populations in Minnesota and neighboring Great Lakes states gathered Monday in the Twin Cities to celebrate the turnover of management from federal hands to states and tribes.
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Excerpt from report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Illegal Local Government Construction Destroying China's Forests" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.