Tumbleweeds, Sagebrush and Kielbasa on the Range
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âSummer Loveâ has been called the first Polish western and the first Polish spaghetti western, though the truer description might be the first deconstructed art western.
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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 Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 12--Trends to watch this fall: Lawns for looks -- out. Functional fields -- in. Groundwater for golf courses -- out. Effluent -- very in.
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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By Rebecca F. Johnson, STAFF WRITER  DUBLIN -- Dublin residents will be tapped during two community meetings over the next couple months to discuss potential uses for a nearly   19-acre piece of land near the Iron Horse Regional Trail.
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 24--You might sense something in the air as you walk along the banks of Madera Creek, treading here and there on yellow-brown leaves shed by sycamore trees.   Autumn.
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By Mike Hendricks, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 18--OSAWATOMIE, Kan. -- Three reasons why Saturday was a great day to hike a newly developed chunk of the Flint Hills Nature Trail near Osawatomie:   First, the sky was clear.
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By Sophia Maines, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Grab your binoculars.   The majestic bald eagles are in town, and more are on the way to this favorite winter-feeding destination.
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PRAGUE, Nov 7 (IPS) - Along the railway station in Csop, Ukraine, home to  a substantial Hungarian-speaking community, shops and stores for  various goods have sprung up, and the town's main streets  and buildings look fresher and newer than is the norm in inland  Ukraine.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--HILTON HEAD, S.C.   Late on a misty day, when the wind sighs through trees lining a deserted road and sets their beards of Spanish moss to fluttering, nature takes center stage here.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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Orange, chestnut, rose, daisy, velvet, singing - peaceful, popular demonstrations in Eastern Europe get the best names
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Prairie dogs fight for home on the range as suburbs spread. Rodent relocators try to strike a humane    balance of city and wildlife.    BOULDER, Colo.
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On a hilltop with breathtaking views of New York's skyline, sharpshooters perched in trees took aim Tuesday at white-tailed deer, a species being crowded out of one of the nation's most densely populated areas.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.