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Marin Voice: Oyster farm and wilderness don't mix at Point Reyes
2014-01-10 04:51:05| Livestock - Topix.net
I WANT TO RESPOND to inaccuracies in Jim Linford's Dec. 15 Marin Voice column, "Oysters and wilderness can co-exist."
Electrician Stranded in Alaskan Wilderness for Week
2013-12-31 17:55:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
A Michigan electrician on a hunting trip spent a week stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with no food, shelter or warm clothes. read more
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11 Wilderness Victories in 2013
2013-12-19 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: 2013 presented plenty of challenges for conservation. Special interest groups and anti-wilderness members of Congress continued their attempts to give away vast swaths of public wild lands to mining, logging and oil and gas interests. These attacks on wildlands included some of our most beloved, pristine areas from Yosemite National Park to the Arctic Refuge. Together, The Wilderness Society and supporters fended off these attacks on majestic forests, parks, refuges and Bureau of Land Management...
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Bolivia's indigenous people join fight to save Gran Chaco wilderness
2013-07-08 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Only from Cerro Colorado a rocky outcrop that rears vertiginously over the treetops is it possible to make out the vastness of the Gran Chaco as it stretches from this corner of Bolivia beyond the horizon into Paraguay. This enormous swath of dry forest and scrubland, where every plant or tree bears thorns, is South America's second largest wilderness after the Amazon rainforest. The Gran Chaco is threatened on all sides: Mennonite cattle ranchers have bought up large tracts in Paraguay and...
CA hikers' woes showed danger of urban wilderness
2013-04-06 02:59:01| Automakers - Topix.net
A federal judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's bid to regain state control of inmates' mental health care after 18 years of court oversight and billions of dollars spent to improve treatment.
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