"Minnesota's Mining Boom: New Riches Or New Threat?"
"The North Woods is being targeted for lucrative, but dangerous, mineral mining."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 09/29/2011
Natural Resources
"The Pawpaw: Foraging For America's Forgotten Fruit"
"So what the heck is a pawpaw?"
Source: NPR, 09/29/2011
Study Says Global Warming May Wreak Havoc on Yellowstone Region
"The last decade was the greater Yellowstone region's hottest on record, according to a study released Tuesday by a pair of environment-oriented nonprofits."
Source: Bozeman Chronicle, 09/29/2011
"New Park Service Review Fuels Battle Over Calif. Oyster Farm"
"The National Park Service has released a draft assessment of a California oyster farm's impact on a wilderness area, concluding that the farm's continued operations would harm harbor seals."
Source: Greenwire, 09/27/2011
"Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations"
"Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois."
Source: Reuters, 09/27/2011
"Gas Wells on Public Land Get Federal Scrutiny"
"The U.S. Department of the Interior is reviewing whether any of the 175 Marcellus Shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania state forests or other permitted or planned well developments on publicly owned land violates a 1964 federal land conservation law."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 09/26/2011
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