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Luxe boutique's downtown location pits Dallas billionaire against Forest City in legal fight
2015-07-09 03:47:53| Real Estate - Topix.net
Billionaire Tim Headington 's plan to add two stories to a luxury retailer's new downtown Dallas boutique is bringing a lawsuit from the owner of a neighboring historic building. Headington's development firm - Headington Realty and Capital LLC - wants to add two stories to the new home for Forty Five Ten on Main Street, taking it from the original plan of three stories to five, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dallas County by an affiliated company of Forest City Enterprises Inc. .
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Smoke from forest fires in Alaska, Canada reach Oklahoma
2015-07-07 23:42:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality says smoke from enormous wildfires in Alaska and Canada is making the air in northwestern Oklahoma unhealthy. The agency reported Tuesday that air quality monitors in northwestern Oklahoma have detected concentrations of fine particulate matter considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.
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Burning rain forest raises concern about future
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Fire crews call them cat faces, deep holes that flames have burned into the trunks of the centuries-old Sitka spruce and hemlock growing here in the Queets River valley. The trees may smolder for days spouting smoke from their bases before finally toppling to the ground with a thunderous crash that sounds like a bomb has gone off. They are falling down regularly, said Dave Felsen, a firefighter from Klamath Falls, Ore. You can hear cracking and you try to move, but its so thick in there...
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Elburn could get money for bike bridge in forest district deal
2015-07-03 06:58:27| Railroads - Topix.net
Elburn will allow the Kane County Forest Preserve District to relocate one of its departments into the village if the district helps pay for a bicycle bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The village board is due to vote Monday to allow the district to buy the former 18-acre Patten Rental business at 1001 S. Route 47 and use it to house its natural resources department.
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Yosemite forest fire example of possible things to come
2015-06-30 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Forest composition, ground cover and topography are the best predictors of forest fire severity in the Western U.S., according to Penn State physical geographers who also see that the long history of fire exclusion on federal lands leads to uncharacteristically severe burns and potentially changes the dynamics of forests and their recovery. A hunter's illegal campfire in Stanislaus National Forest adjacent to Yosemite National Park started what would become the Rim fire, the third largest fire...
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