End Of The Trail: Horseback Riders Take Action to Have Blocked Path Reopened
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 10--Riding a horse into Garland Ranch used to be so easy.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- One of the byproducts of the withdrawal from the Belmont by Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and the entrance of Rags to Riches was a game of musical chairs for the jockeys.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--Several days of cooler, damper conditions may be the beginning of the end for both the Gunflint Trail fires and, just maybe, the summerlong drought.
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By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 10--ALAMOSA - Make no bones about it, Alamosans are serious about saving the remains of a famous horse said to have been sliced and diced by space aliens.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.
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The field for Sunday&#39;s Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe took shape when 27 horses stood their ground at yesterday&#39;s first forfeit stage.
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Jason Davis knelt in a snow-filled ditch beside a frozen gravel road, the bill of his baseball cap nearly touching four small marks in the snow. As he examined the marks, more than a dozen other animal trackers gathered around. The trackers are volunteers with Cascadia Wild, which has organized the Wolverine Tracking Project for the past five years to bring urbanites closer to nature and gather information about animal species in Mount Hood National Forest.
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By LAUREN DONOVAN  MEDORA - A trail that exposed the heart of the Badlands to hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders will open it another 45 miles.  It's possible that bikes will only be allowed on the first 11 miles of the new trail.
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Farmers are hoping that restrictions on the movement of livestock will soon be lifted.
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By Minty Clinch  Big sky, big snow, big wagons. That's how the Rockies were when the West was won and that's how they are today. No doubt 19th- century pioneers driving horse-drawn carts cursed the champagne powder fields that barred their progress.
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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By Mark Story, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Sep. 24--GEORGETOWN -- If only horses could talk. What a story Taylor's Special had to tell.
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By SAM HITT AND SARAH WILLIAMS  The Santa Fe Fire Department plans to clear vegetation from nearly 100 acres of public open space to reduce hazardous fuels near the Dale Ball trails.   The Forest Service wants to extend clearing from Hyde Park all the way to the Santa Fe Ski Area.
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The revival of the New River Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited is good news. Chapter members have worked this year to remove trash from Peak Creek and its banks and to install small log structures on the stream bed to provide cover for trout.
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By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 14--A lawsuit has been filed to stop three Central Texas residents from claiming that they can protect property owners from losing land to the Trans-Texas Corridor, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
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By Betsy Gilliland  AIKEN - The city has set aside funding and put a task force in place to preserve open space.  Now officials need to educate the community and themselves about the best way to meet the challenge.
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By Travis Fain, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep. 13--Construction of the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail through Rose Hill Cemetery was put on hold Tuesday evening, and Macon City Council members told trail designers to look at routes that would bypass the historic cemetery.