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		<title>Quagga mussel threatens entire Lake Michigan ecosystem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire ecosystem of Lake Michigan hangs on the fate of a microscopic phytoplankton, which just happens to be the favorite snack food for the quagga mussels that have invaded the lake&#8217;s waters. The disappearance of the phytoplankton would affect the entire food chain, collapsing the whole ecosystem. An abundance of the phytoplankton was first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Forest Service trying new techniques in wake of bark beetle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive outbreak of the small bark beetle in Wyoming and Colorado has led to the damage of over 3.5 million acres of national forest land and the US Forest Service is trying to find ways to keep the damage to a minimum. One of the most dangerous after-effects of the beetle is the falling of dead trees (attacked by the beetle). USFS is now proactively addressing the issue and will be working to clear dead trees that pose safety and access issues. ]]></description>
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		<title>Believed-to-be-extinct fox sighted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sierra Nevada red fox has been thought to be extinct for some time now, but has recently been sighted (and caught on camera, no less) by the US Forest Service near Sonora Pass in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. A motion-activated camera caught the fox chasing after a bait bag on August 11.]]></description>
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		<title>NPS proposes to return tribal land to the Oglala Sioux Tribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent proposal from the National Park Service would return thousands of acres of lands to the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. The land is currently part of South Unit in Badlands National Park but has an unfortunate past; in 1942 the US War Department took the land from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to use it as bombing range until the 1960s. ]]></description>
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		<title>National Park officials remind hunters that hunting within parks illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As fall hunting seasons start to open across the country, National Park officials in Yellowstone NP are reminding people that hunting within the park&#8217;s boundaries is against the law. Not only is it illegal to shoot an animal in a national park, but it is also against the law to track an animal within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are our National Parks really as clean as we think they are?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may think that the National Parks are oasis' of pure and clean nature, but unfortunately, the facts prove otherwise. A group of scientists has found that air pollutants are accumulating in the park environments on the West Coast at an unusually high rate. Some of these pollutants have even been banned for decades.]]></description>
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		<title>Oops! Pot growers busted by game wardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two men were arrested this week after they mistakenly identified a game warden&#8217;s pick-up truck as a truck belonging to their supplier. The men were caught by two California Fish and Game wardens when they were found tossing bags of marijuana into the back of the truck. The game wardens were scouting for deer poachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human and environmental factors threaten National Parks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent studies of our National Parks have exposed a wide range of threats that can (and most likely will) have a serious impact on the conditions of the land. Climate change, increased visitors (and the foot traffic that comes along with them), air pollution from vehicles, and litter are all threatening to destroy the beauty that many are trying to preserve for generations to come.]]></description>
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		<title>Mountaintop mining operations feeling the credit crunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Science published a paper  outlining the impacts of mountain top removal (MTR), more commonly referred to as mountaintop mining. Surprisingly, the practice of mining the surface of mountaintops is completely legal and fairly common in the Appalachian Mountains, and has gone on for quite some time without major opposition until this year. Now, MTR companies are feeling the pressure from another source--banks.]]></description>
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		<title>Hiker shoots himself in the butt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Sampson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When on the trails, we have a multitude of factors that can affect our own safety: trail conditions, weather, wild animals like bears or bobcats, etc. Usually "other hikers" doesn't make it on to that list very often. However, in a strange incident that occurred this weekend at Blewett Pass that makes me rethink whether or not I need to worry about other hikers when hiking the trails.]]></description>
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