Forest College students go on strike
Hindu (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
They seek recruitment prospects for B.Sc Forestry graduates as Forest Rangers (Apprentices)
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Kenya: Rangers demolish houses in Mau Forest
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Nairobi — Houses left behind by Mau settlers were demolished on Thursday in a clear indication that the government would not allow the evicted squatters to return to the forest. The Kenya Forest Service has also sent more rangers to the South Western Mau to ensure that the families that leave the country's largest source of water do not return. In Nairobi, Forestry and Wildlife minister Noah...
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Tree-hunting season opens in Routt County
SteamboatPilot.com stories (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Pull on the boots, pack up the saw and load up the car: It’s tree-hunting time. Permits for Christmas trees now are available from the Routt National Forest ranger offices from Walden to Craig for $10 apiece, but getting the permit is the easy part.
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DFF: An Evening With Ed Harris
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
It's always very strange to see actors out of costume, dropping character, and sitting in front of you for a Q&A. This is especially true of an actor like Ed Harris , who has such a distinctive voice and presence that it's pretty odd to see him begging Kleenex from the audience so he can remove the fingerprints off his latest award. The man who seems so cool and collected in front of the camera...
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Forest rangers find missing hunter
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
State forest rangers found a missing hunter after a two-hour search Friday evening.
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Under His Wings
Pounding Heartbeat (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
An article in National Geographic several years ago provided a penetrating picture of God's wings. After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at ...
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A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 06 Nov 09
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 6th issue include: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America , by Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. NONFICTION/HISTORY. EW's slant: "Few writers have the Pulitzer Prize-winning Egan's gift for transforming history lessons into the stuff...
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A Royal Bengal tiger caught and released back in the forest
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A Royal Bengal tiger caught and released back in the forest From ANI Sundarbans (WB), Nov 4: A grown-up adult Royal Bengal tiger of the world famous Sundarbans Tiger Reserve in West Bengal, while on prowl strayed into human habitations recently. Reportedly, the tiger swam across the backwaters of Sunderbans and entered the villages of Sonagaon, Mitrabari and Bijoynagar. Soon the officials of the Forest...
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Forest rangers rescue leopard in Junagadh
A little about .... (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Jungadh (Gujarat), Nov. 1 - ANI: A leopard that had fallen into an open well in Jungadh district of Gujarat was rescued after a three hour-long operation.
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Happy Halloween
thevuvclub.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
It's Halloween and the weather is perfect. It is an ideal afternoon to be outside trick-or-treating... And I am inside the house, alone, waiting for costumed children to ring my bell and ask for candy. Gone are the days when I get to accompany anyone on the walk through the neighborhood. My son is too cool for dress up and my daughter and her friends are "Sheriffs" who don't want mommy Did...
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Loggers kill forest ranger in Vietnam
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Hanoi - A forest ranger was killed and two others were badly injured when illegal loggers attacked them in a forest in Vietnam's central highlands, a police official said Wednesday. Huynh Lien, police chief of Cu Mgar district in Dak Lak province, sa...
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Flashback: Gory Ghoul Makeup
CRAFT Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Zombies and ghouls are all the rage this Halloween, and adding some macabre makeup to just about any getup will immediately zombie-fy it. I have a friend who is a forest ranger, and he's going as the zombie ranger, by just donning his work uniform and adding some gory makeup and some dismembered limbs coming out of his backpack. Maybe I'll just have to be the zombie backcountry snowboarder. This week's...
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Department of Book Reports: The Big Burn
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt and The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin, $27) For those of you who enjoyed Ken Burn's National Parks, I suggest this excellent history of how our National Forests came into being. We saw terrible fires in California this past summer, 100,000 acres burned and many houses were lost. This is small in comparison to the fire that swept through the Northwest...
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Sandal oil seized
Hindu (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Tirupur: The Forest Department officials arrested two persons and seized sandal oil worth Rs. 1 lakh from them near here on Friday. Official sources said that based on a tip-off the officials led by Forest Ranger Sivakumar intercepted a ...
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Protest against eviction drive by Forest Department
Hindu (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Tamilnadu Vivasayigal Sangam stages demonstration before Forest Ranger office at Royakottai