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College student/hiker from New York among two who perish in Colorado snowstorm

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Two Colorado college students, including one from New York, have been found dead after going missing during a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains when a heavy snowstorm hit, authorities said.
The bodies of Jackson Donlon, 20, of Queensbury, in Warren County, N.Y., and Kaden Matsuda, 19, of Ridgway, Colorado were found Oct. 28 in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, about 100 miles southeast of Aspen, the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media.

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First case of screwworm in U.S. wildlife confirmed in Texas elk

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The first case of new world screwworm in wildlife in the United States has been found in an elk in Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in late October.
The elk was discovered on a game ranch in Pecos County and was reported after being harvested by a hunter, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said. The detection prompted additional wildlife surveillance in the area by the USDA and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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A rare family of barn owls moved into Manhattan’s Upper West Side

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Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.
This is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history, according to one expert, and the owls have attracted nightly crowds of people in the street eager to get a glimpse of the elusive birds.

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Yellowstone receives record $105 million gift for infrastructure, conservation, access

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Yellowstone National Park and Tallgrass, a Colorado company building an AI power hub near Cheyenne, have launched a $105 million conservation and stewardship fund for the country’s first national park, calling it the largest single private gift in the agency’s history.
The park announced creation of the fund on Monday in conjunction with its nonprofit conservation partner, Yellowstone Forever, and Tallgrass, a Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company. The fund will establish a permanent source of support for long-term stewardship, the groups said.

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Water quality improving for Long Island Sound

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Billions of dollars spent on wastewater treatment and other infrastructure upgrades in Connecticut and New York have resulted in apparent improvements in Long Island Sound’s water quality, according to a report from the ecological nonprofit Save the Sound.
Published every two years, the group’s report divides Long Island Sound into five segments: the eastern, central and western basins that cover the widest portions of the Sound between New York and Connecticut, and the western and eastern narrows around lower Fairfield County, Westchester County and New York City.

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Hope for restoring American elms? Disease that decimated the trees could help bring them back

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The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back.
In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is one of the scientists leading an effort to beat Dutch elm disease, which has killed tens of millions of elm trees over the last century. Scientists with the Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy Vermont spent the summer injecting 6,000 young elm trees with Dutch elm disease spores to test their resistance to the disease.

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Rescuers save 80 people in Grand Canyon floods that leave two dead

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The bodies of a Texas chiropractor and a lifelong martial artist have been found after a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon. One person remained unaccounted for after about 80 others were rescued over the weekend, officials said last week.
A flash flood on Aug. 29 severely damaged the only water pipeline serving Grand Canyon National Park.

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Major step toward fracking realized in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest

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The federal government took a major step forward in late July toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.

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Ex-Oregon prison officer fined $114K, banned from hunting for life in massive poaching case

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A former state prison officer in Oregon was sentenced to probation, fined more than $114,000 and banned from hunting for life after pleading guilty to various wildlife crimes.
Christopher Matson, 48, of Umatilla, faced 67 criminal charges after the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division caught him poaching big-game animals, including a black bear, and in possession of illegal firearms. The charges spanned multiple counties.

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