Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) was a Canadian naturalist and author who wrote books for children, studies of Canadian flowers and plants, and, most important, accurate accounts of pioneer condition...
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Catharine Parr Traill has a greater importance in nineteenth-century Canadian letters than her work as a whole would seem to justify. Mistrusting fiction (which she felt satisfied the imagination whil...
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polls show him trailing Eliot Spitzer by 60 points. And, as Liz Benjamin reported yesterday, his media adviser has just bailed out - hardly an indication that Suozzi has built the sort of ruthlessl...
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Long-term management plans for national forests will no longer go through a formal environmental impact statement, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday.The Forest Service said writing the 15-y...
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Doctors and rescuers were trying Friday to coax more than two dozen doomsday cult members into leaving their forest hideout near the Volga River, where they were awaiting the end of the world with ...
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Local governments and private firms are increasingly teaming up
in forestation projects against the backdrop of heightened interests
to improve corporate images with contributions in environm...
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A medical plane crashed en route to a hospital, killing all five on board, including a 15-month-old patient and her mother, authorities said Monday.The plane left the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport...
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A medical plane crashed en route to a hospital, killing all five on board, including a 15-month-old patient and her mother, authorities said.The plane left the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport late S...
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The Forest Service on Thursday proposed new rules for managing 193 million acres of national forests, responding to a court ruling that tossed out policies giving forest managers great discretion t...
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Jabbed with tranquilizers, her ear pierced with a green ID tag, Twister traded her steel transport box for freedom after a bumpy 90-mile ride into central Idaho's mountains. The yearling black bear...
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A Japanese monkey aptly named Oops bolted from the Roanoke city zoo, sparking a park-wide shutdown as staff searched the surrounding forest where they could hear her in the trees.
The 20-p...
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