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Pontoon rides planned on Red River

...using the new 10-foot-wide trails and being able to come up to the boat launch and take a ride,'' Moorhead parks superintendent Riaz Aziz said. The dock is expected to be finished within a month, Aziz said. That would be the home base for...

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'Fortunate' Los Alamos residents go home

...started by the National Park Service to clear brush, leaped out of control when winds kicked up last week. Park Superintendent Roy Weaver has been placed on leave pending an investigation. With power still out in their Los Alamos home...

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Park official retires amid fallout from Los Alamos wildfire

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The national park superintendent who approved a brush-clearing fire that raged out of control and scorched 47,000 acres to become the worst wildfire in state...

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Comment period extended on park management

...Kathleen Przybylski, Voyageurs' planning coordinator, said Friday the extension decision was reached Thursday by park Superintendent Barb West and Bill Schenk, regional director of the National Park Service, after numerous contacts with city...

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Lawmakers stand behind snowmobile race

...to go forward with plans for a county-sponsored snowmobile race in Voyageurs National Park this weekend. Park Superintendent Barbara West refused to issue a permit to the nonprofit snowmobile group that has run the event for years, saying...

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In a Minnesota national park, cabin owners look sadly toward the day they must leave

...extension on their lease, but like others, have had little luck. "It's so hard for people," acknowledges park Superintendent Barbara West. "It's a very difficult thing for us. We're obviously convinced that there's this greater...

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Voyageurs National Park bays reopening to snowmobiles

...Voyageurs National Park, now that a study has found no link between human use and wolf activity in those areas. Park Superintendent Barbara West said 4,667 acres of lake surface previously closed to the public since 1992 will reopen this winter...

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Getting the news

...dry brush and grass to eliminate possible fire hazards -- spread into Los Alamos and charred 36,000 acres. Park Superintendent Roy Weaver has been placed on leave with pay pending an investigation, and Babbitt said all prescribed fires in...

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Relief and grief as fire evacuees get look at homes

...burn to reduce brush and grass that could fuel future fires. But the high wind quickly pushed it out of control. Park Superintendent Roy Weaver has since been placed on paid leave, and prescribed fires in the West have been put on hold for a month...

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Flooding impact in Lanesboro more than wet basements

...has dampened the short summer tourism season. ''The floods are scaring people away,'' said Joe Rodgers, park superintendent of Lanesboro. ''It seems like we just get things squared away and we get another series of floods. It's been...

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