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A surfer carries his board at the San Clemente State Beach in San Clemente, Calif., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. In search of new revenue, the state parks system is eyeing new parking fees for parts of the Northern California shoreline or considering hiking rates to visit popular beaches south of Los Angeles during peak periods. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Parking fees fight at Calif. state beaches heat up

Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. That sandy line that long defined the state's ...

4 Louisiana men convicted of deer poaching in Iowa

Four Louisiana men have been found guilty of poaching deer in southwest Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said the investigation began with a call in November 2011 to Kansas wildlife officials about the men's hunting activities in that state, the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reported (http://bit.ly/12jV4VO ) Saturday. ...

Ill. lawmakers face tough votes before adjourning

The Illinois General Assembly has just two weeks left in Springfield before it adjourns for the summer, leaving lawmakers with a tight deadline for action on issues including tackling the state's pension crisis, gay marriage and how guns will be allowed to be carried in public. Making good on what's ...

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...

Udall seeks feedback on proposed national monument

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public's help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado — an area renowned for its whitewater rafting. The Democrat, who held ...

Montana investigates bison deaths near Yellowstone

State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep. Pat Flowers of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tells the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/113sjdu) that a veterinarian from his agency and the ...

In this May 2, 2013 photo, a leatherback turtle heads back into the ocean after burying her clutch of eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles’ buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market. Now, the turtles are the focus of a thriving tourist trade, with people so devoted to them that they shoo birds away when the turtles first start out as tiny hatchlings scurrying to sea.  (AP Photo/David McFadden)

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using ...

This undated image provided by Capt. Bobby Rice shows Ron Poirier fishing for tuna. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, Poirier figured he’d dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country's history - and, perhaps, to his own premature death. "It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran said shortly before succumbing to esophageal cancer at a Cape Cod nursing facility on May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Bobby Rice)

Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had ...

Rabies confirmed in bat found in Albuquerque

New Mexico health officials are urging parents to tell children not to handle wild animals. The warning comes after a bat found in northeast Albuquerque tested positive for rabies. A number of children were reportedly near the bat and took photographs of it on the evening of May 11, but ...

Jackson students help with lion research

Armed with compasses, good boots and extra batteries, Summit High School students trekked up Cache Creek earlier this month to study cougar habitat with Craighead Beringia South. Two classes of math and science students have been working with the wildlife research institute for the past few months, going out in ...

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