Group Designates Acreage Down East As Bird Haven
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By Diana Graettinger, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 11--GRAND LAKE STREAM -- The people who know birds -- and want to keep them growing and flying -- have chosen a 339,000-acre chunk of Down East Maine for a very special designation.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--WARSAW  -- The Richmond County Board of Supervisors late Thursday night killed a proposed subdivision slated for one of the most important bald-eagle habitats on the East Coast.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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High winds in central Indiana today kept a flock of 14-young whooping cranes from continuing their journey south to Florida. The birds and their human guides in ultralight planes are in Boone County, having
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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By LAWRENCE TANE III  The Virginia Department of Transportation intends to go ahead with bridge-building plans in Richmond County that a federal agency warns will affect a tidal creek's population of bald eagles.  The U.S.
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By Patty Machelor, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 8--The Rincon Institute, the East Side's homegrown conservation group, is presenting a naturalist outing, "Tour the Maternity Bat Roost Restoration Sites along Cienega Creek," on Saturday.
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Pelican nesting grounds will be off-limits to the public this year at a refuge in central North Dakota while biologists plan their most extensive study ever of the big birds.
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By John Cramer john.cramer@roanoke.com 981-3140  Wildlife, water quality and eco-tourism would benefit under legislation proposed Tuesday in Congress to designate nearly 55,000 acres in Southwest Virginia as wilderness or national scenic areas, the bill's sponsors say.
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By JAMES YOO, STAFF WRITER  West Milford has its parks and lakes, Ringwood its manors and garden, and Bloomingdale a historic Revolutionary War hill and a state forest.  Officials say it makes sense  and hopefully cents  to promote ecotourism regionally.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--King William County authorities and Newport News Waterworks next week will begin raising the delicate issue of acquiring thousands of acres of private land for a proposed water reservoir.
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For several months now, South Floridian early birds have been treated to a lovely sight above the eastern morning horizon before sunrise.
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By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer  Brunswick's Conservation Commission will ask the federal government to preserve a huge chunk of undeveloped land at Brunswick Naval Air Station for recreation and protection of plants and wildlife.
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By JAMES MINTON  The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana recently signed a purchase agreement that will add approximately 850 acres to the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in West Feliciana Parish.
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Federal wildlife officials released a long-range plan Monday for removing a tiny bird that nests on West Coast beaches from Endangered Species Act protections by 2047 with the help of volunteers from the Audubon Society, the Boy Scouts and other nonprofit groups.
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By Richard Dymond, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 10--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Imagine strolling under a canopy of trees that stretches around Lake Uihlein, starting right behind Town Hall.
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People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity.