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• Outdoors briefs (The Shreveport Times)
3 Sep 2008 at 12:09am
Do you want to learn about importance of native deer browse plants and how to identify them, deer hunting safety and cost share programs on wildlife habitat?
• McCune prairie showcases the unusual (SaukValley.com)
30 Aug 2008 at 1:02am
Visitors truly can get away from it all with a visit to McCune Sand Prairie, about 10 miles from Princeton. This rare prairie contains very sandy soil and covers 200 acres donated by Mr. and Mrs. J.D. McCune and University of Illinois.
• Tooele considering options for biosolids (Tooele Transcript-Bulletin)
29 Aug 2008 at 11:43pm
Over the past five years, Tooele City has paid Bruce Clegg and his family $180,000 to spread the end product of the city’s wastewater treatment plant — biosolids— on property he owns near the Deseret Peak Complex and elsewhere.
• Concerns raised about new program at USA (Huron Daily Tribune)
29 Aug 2008 at 8:07pm
SEBEWAING — A new alternative education program is starting at Unionville-Sebewaing Area Schools this school year, and nearly 50 concerned parents and community members attended a two-hour informational meeting last week to seek answers.
• In Central Valley, the Ruins of the Housing Bust (The Hendersonville Times-News)
25 Aug 2008 at 12:41pm
The experience of Merced, Calif., suggests that recovery from the national real estate debacle will be painful and protracted.
• Jump on agritourism wave and stay on a farm (San Jose Mercury News)
15 Aug 2008 at 5:51pm
Call them haycations: It's a chance to spend a night or two on a working farm or ranch and enjoy the comforts of an inn or guest home while you learn about your hosts' approach to agriculture.
• Ready, set, show (The Sacramento Bee)
19 Aug 2008 at 12:08am
Rural Sacramento County, where you can wedge a Home Depot between houses, is quality goat country. Jake Carlson, 15, and his sister, Abby, 12, wake up at 5 a.m. to get their farm chores done. They have 17 goats entered in State Fair competitions this year. Abby Carlson and her brother, Jake, groom one of their dairy goats to prepare it for the State Fair.
• Farmers suffer from heat, water loss (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
20 Aug 2008 at 11:40am
REYNOSA, Mexico -- After a lifetime of farming the dusty earth around this northern Mexico city, Juan Pinal understands the value of water and the uncertainty it poses to his livelihood.
• Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
20 Aug 2008 at 2:36am
There will be a “Community Gas Meeting” at 7 p.m. today at the Spencer Grange, 55 E. Tioga St. off Route 96 in Spencer.
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