Snowmobile plan proposed for Yellowstone
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The National Park Service wants to maintain snowmobile regulations allowing 720 snowmobiles per day to enter Yellowstone National Park.
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A new study shows mountain goats are taking hold in Yellowstone National Park, but park officials aren't sure how to handle the presence of the nonnative animals.
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A judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land in northern Idaho off-limits to snowmobiles in an effort to save the last mountain caribou herd in the contiguous 48 states.
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By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669  The proposed sale of national forest land, which died amid a national storm of criticism last year, has been resurrected in President Bush's 2008 budget proposal.
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By Mike Prager, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 14--A 39-lot clustered housing development is being proposed along Newman Lake and Lakeview Road.   It is one of three large-acreage developments recently proposed across the county.
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The air quality at two of the most popular winter spots here continues to improve, a new study finds. Levels of carbon monoxide and certain particulate at the park's west entrance at West Yellowstone, the most popular winter gate, and Old Faithful, the most popular destination, still are "well below" national ambient air-quality standards and the air quality is good, the study by the National Park Service concluded.
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By Patty Machelor, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 15--A plan to help preserve the Southeast Side's Fantasy Island trails area has received an award from a national group called American Trails.
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By LAUREN DONOVAN  By LAUREN DONOVAN  A revised and possibly improved plan to extend the popular Maah Daah Hey Trail in the Badlands is open for public comment before a final decision is made, possibly late this summer.
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By James Gilbert, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 15--Wildlife officials now have a plan for restoring the historically low population of bighorn sheep to the area.
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A scheme allowing motorists to drive along the hard shoulder is to be rolled out across the country.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Dec. 15--A plan to trade state-owned land along the Gunflint Trail above  Grand Marais for land elsewhere in Cook County appears dead.   The Cook County Board and Grand Marais City Council this week unanimously  opposed the trade.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Feb. 11--If you've ever thought about trying winter camping, or if you just want to get out for a good snowshoe or ski, the canoe country is in excellent shape. "Everything is rock-solid.
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Hybrid engines manufactured by General Motors Corp. will be used to power some buses in California&#39;s Yosemite National Park -- a move aimed at curbing emissions in the pristine reserve.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 15--The La Crosse Park Board will consider a proposal tonight that would kick-start plans to convert Myrick Park Zoo and Hixon Forest into an ecopark.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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The number of grizzly bears with cubs in the Yellowstone area appears to be rebounding, which could bolster efforts to remove the animals from the endangered species list, biologists said Friday.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 18--For a couple of weeks in May, a dispute over off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota's state forests appeared to be resolved. The Legislature had just passed a bill outlining where those machines could go, and Gov.