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Local Firm To Tackle $2.35m Restoration Of State Game Lodge - Rapid City Journal
a local construction firm will lead the restoration and expansion of custer state park’s historic state game lodge. j. scull construction services of rapid city was awarded the $2.35 million contract, the s.d. department of game, fish & parks ...
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Saugatuck Adopts New Parks And Recreation Plan
saugatuck city leaders monday, sept. 8, ensured that the city’s parks and recreational areas will continue to be eligible for federal and state improvement grants for the next five years and collaborated with neighboring jurisdictions to split the cost of doing so. the city council adopted a new saugatuck douglas area 5-year parks and recreation plan, which was crafted jointly by saugatuck ...
www.hollandsentinel.com

Paterson Vetoes Bill To Create Commission To Look At State’s Recreation Industry
gov. david paterson has vetoed a bill that would have created a state commission to recommend ways to equalize public and private competition in the outdoor recreation industry, including ski resorts and golf courses.
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State Closes Offices, Facilities - Daily Breeze
state closes offices, facilities tallahassee – florida department of environmental protection secretary michael sole today announced the following closures of several offices, state parks and recreation areas as of today, monday, sept. 8.
www.cape-coral-daily-breeze.com

Oregon Ghost Forest By Sea May Harbor Climate Clues - Seattle Times
neskowin, ore. — as the beach near neskowin washed away last winter, a ghost forest emerged that could give oregon state university students a look at our past climate and, maybe, our future. the forest has been preserved in the beach sands for ...
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State Will Give Pets Test Run In Yurts
four units will be used in 2009 trial portland (ap) — the state parks and recreation department is easing into its plan to relax the ban on pets in campground yurts and cabins.
www.democratherald.com

Supes To Consider Parks And Rec Spending In September
on sept. 2, the calaveras county board of supervisors is scheduled to consider several county projects for funding approval under the state’s proposition 40 program guidelines for parks and recreation improvements.
www.calaverasenterprise.com

Paterson Vetoes Bill To Create Commission To Look At State’s ... - Albany Business Journal
gov. david paterson has vetoed a bill that would have created a state commission to recommend ways to equalize public and private competition in the outdoor recreation industry, including ski resorts and golf courses. in a veto memo announced sept. 5 ...
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Sarley: Closing Parks Hurts Everyone - Northwest Herald
the state of illinois has announced the closing of 11 state parks effective nov. 1. the closings are a result of a $14 million cut to funding for the illinois department of natural resources. thirty-six full and three part-time workers will lose ...
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Select Parks Taking Reservations Through Oct. 6
pierre — eight of south dakota’s state parks will continue taking camping reservations through oct. 6 after which, camping switches to a first come, first served basis. first come, first served camping began on sept. 1 for the rest of the state parks.
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Sarley: Closing Parks Hurts Everyone
the state of illinois has announced the closing of 11 state parks effective nov. 1. the closings are a result of a $14 million cut to funding for the illinois department of natural resources.
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Kailua's Sandy Shore Fading - Honolulu Advertiser
kailua — erosion at kailua beach has reached startling proportions, revealing a 60-foot-long sand trap installed 30 years ago at its southernmost end and buried until recently, and raising concern that the problem could work its way north along the ...
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Officers Outhouse Reconstructed At Old Fort Ontario Site - Watertown Daily Times
oswego — ground was broken during a ceremony aug. 13 for reconstruction of an officers outhouse at old fort ontario. fort staff and volunteers gathered to dig the ditch and prepare the foundation for one of the less historically significant but ...
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New Facilities
interim visitor facilities at elk knob state park in watauga county are in place in time for the park’s annual elk knob headwaters community day, according to the n.c. division of parks and recreation.
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Rvs Invade Dunes; Group Fears Overuse
the santa lucia chapter of the sierra club has filed a public records act request with the state department of parks and recreation to find out if the agency is letting more vehicles into the oceano dunes state vehicular recreation area on big holiday weekends than it should, a sierra club spokesman said.
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Committee Considers Shiprock For State Park - Farmington Daily Times
navajo nation — the indian affairs committee, an interim legislative council, is meeting in shiprock, upper fruitland and nageezi this week to talk with leaders and discuss issues. topping the list of topics is the proposed shiprock pinnacle state ...
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Palm Trees To Face Limited Trimming - Desert Sun
how people view the palm trees that line palm springs' downtown and uptown districts depends on personal taste. through the years, city officials have spent hours debating whether or not to skin the skirts — or dead fronds — off these california ...
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State Parks Cuts Felt Beyond Sauk Valley
while many campers and hikers are mourning the likely loss of prized area state parks, a determined few downstate are trying to organize to fight for their parks to stay open.
www.saukvalley.com

Parks Wait While State Mulls Budget
cartersville - you could call it kenneth akins' dream job. he was a child when he first came to the etowah indian mounds in northeast georgia, a state historic site that features one mound 67 feet high, two smaller bumps in the ground and several other rises that indicate where other mounds were.
www.cherokeetribune.com

A Kinetic Vision: Parkie The Recreation Monster Is Going Places - Corvallis Gazette-times
parkie the recreation monster got his start several years ago when the corvallis parks and recreation department held a class to teach community members how to build kinetic sculptures, human-powered all-terrain vehicles that include an artistic ...
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