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Search continues for bear that attacked Longwood woman

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It was towing a trailer that appeared to be a large metal cage on wheels. And, often, other bears take their place. The black bear, Florida's largest native land mammal, was removed from the state's threatened-species list last year. Male black bears typically have a home range of 60 square miles, officials said. This is a breaking news story.
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Group crafts vision for North Fork area

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...a recommendation for just over 80,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the Thompson-Seton, Tuchuck, and Mt. Hefty areas at the north end of the Whitefish Range, Jamison said. That recommendation closely resembles what the Flathead Forest included in a draft forest plan that had to be abandoned because of litigation in 2006. But it still represents compromise, because there have been proposals in the past for more than 200,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the North Fork, Jamison...
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N.D. hunters who didn’t draw deer tags this fall have plenty of company

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...said Bernhardt, 30, a Grand Forks Realtor. "It's always something scheduled in at the same time of year." This year, though, Bernhardt, of Grand Forks, didn't draw a deer tag. In response to declining deer populations, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department this fall offered only 59,500 licenses for the deer gun season, the lowest number in 30 years. That puts Bernhardt in the same position as some 44,000 other North Dakota residents who didn't draw licenses in the deer...
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Red tape that protects plovers hurts Cape economy

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He wanted his 7-year-old son to experience a Fourth of July on the beach, but for the seventh year in a row, nesting plovers closed off all the trails heading south from Nauset. Because Massachusetts has its own Endangered Species Act, towns also need state conservation and management permits. Much like the proposal in Winthrop, the town felt the rebuilding would help create new plover habitat as erosion washed the dunes away over time.
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