Supporting Birdstone
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Smarty Jones has been retired to stud in Kentucky, but his presence is felt among the other top 3-year-old thoroughbreds still racing.
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Trainer Nick Zito has come to Lone Star Park with Birdstone, an outstanding 3-year-old who has a shot in Saturday's $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic. It is less known that Zito also brought two good 2-year-olds, a colt, Sun King, and a filly, In The Gold, but they are legitimate contenders in the juvenile divisions.
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Birdstone, who denied Smarty Jones the Triple Crown by beating him in the Belmont Stakes, has been retired from racing due to an ankle injury his connections announced Wednesday.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tony Iallonardo of the National Audubon Society, +1-202- 861-2242 Ext.
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Planning a gift to charity can make a good thing even better.
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Travel: A radical new look for the great British beach hut will be unveiled in Lincolnshire later this month. Liz Bird gets a sneak preview.
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ORLAND - Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust's Campaign for the Wildlands has raised $2.49 million toward its goal of $2.86 million. The money will be used to conserve the 4,200 acres on and around Great Pond Mountain that the campaign purchased 18 months ago.
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BIRMINGHAM International Airport has embarked on a treeplanting initiative to help offset its carbon emissions.  The project to plant dozens of established trees and saplings in Radleys Park, Sheldon, involves pupils from a local primary school.
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NEW YORK The horse that spoiled &quot;Smarty Jones&#39;&quot; bid for the Triple Crown is being retired from racing. Belmont Stakes winner &quot;Birdstone&quot; was retired today after chipping a bone in his left front ankle during the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic.
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If your image of a garden club is limited to ladies planting azaleas in the town square, think again: The National Garden Clubs is supporting a reforestation effort that includes areas hard-hit by wildfires and other natural disasters.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Erica Barton, +1-212-979-3197, ebarton@audubon.org, or Tony Iallonardo, +1-202-861-2242 ext.
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By RICHARD HINTON  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin its habitat restoration work this week for two species of protected birds, weather permitting.  The project targets six sandbars on Lake Oahe, south of Bismarck.
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A fund set up to save an ailing tree that once brought comfort to Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis has got off to a good start, the foundation behind the project said on Thursday.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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By Scott Richardson;srichardson@pantagraph.com  The McLean County chapter of Pheasants Forever and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have teamed to provide hunters with hundreds of more acres of suitable habitat to support their favorite birds and other wildlife.