For Wildlife With Wanderlust, Their Own Highway
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A corridor of the wild through the high country of North America - Yellowstone to Yukon - is becoming a reality.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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By ANNYSA JOHNSON  It is a stirring sight that has awed Wisconsinites for six years now: an ultralight aircraft aloft in the fading sunlight, leading endangered whooping cranes from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on their maiden migration south.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 10--Call it the path to biological diversity for America's plant and  animal species ...   Ecologists have long suspected that "wildlife corridors," undeveloped  pathways linking patches of plant and animal habitats, encourage biodiversity.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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The Web can help travelers create customized walking tours.
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By ELIZABETH WHITE SAN MARCOS, Texas - Every so often, Scott Wade will drive his Mini Cooper up and down the rough, gravelly road near his Texas Hill Country home. But Wade isn't taking pass after pass on the inhospitable road to test his shocks or for the thrill of the ride.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--There's something alluring about the supertrees soon to find their way to the Coast's urban forest.
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In part as a frugal move at least a dozen states have increased native plantings on their highway medians.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Jun. 24--Picture a South Florida rarely seen except on postcards.   Blue herons daintily picking their way through lush foliage. A water lily pond with its own pavilion. An unspoiled dirt path leading to an enchanted forest.
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By SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press writer  TEHEKIN  For generations, residents of this remote hamlet in central Washington's Cascade Range have worked to preserve its rural woodsy character, while promoting it as a scenic tourist getaway.
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Ever wonder where America's yellow school buses go to die? Some don't &#151; they find a second life on Central Africa's rutted, traffic-choked roads.
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They give a whole new meaning to things that go bump in the night. Elephants have recently taken to blocking a highway frequently used by produce trucks in Thailand but which also runs through the Ang Lue Nai wildlife reserve.
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.
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Army ants have devised a remarkable way to smooth a bumpy journey - by plugging potholes with their bodies.
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Sucking up sugarcane with their  trunks and circling busy traffic roundabouts, the elephants  that roam Thai towns at festival time seem as much at home in  the city as in the forest.
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The country's unique walking safaris get you out of the jeep and up close and personal with lions, elephants, and hippo droppings.