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It has an odd name, an odd size and an odd price. And you won't find this magazine at your supermarket checkout or bookstore. But for 65 years, the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer has been the little magazine that could -- writing with clarity and purpose about conservation, natural resources and nature.

The gray wolf is on a roll. Its population is booming. Lone wolves have turned up in every corner of the state. And increasingly, residents are reporting a growing number of close encounters with this elusive predator.

The Ethiopian in the air pot is labeled 8:30-- just about an hour and a half ago--but that's just not fresh enough for someone in the coffee business, so Scott Patterson brews a fresh pot of Guatemalan Dark. He's even picky about his mugs, digging through the employees' collection to find the two stoutest ones.

The bald eagle, a national symbol of majesty from the country's earliest days, moved several steps closer on Monday to leaving the list of threatened or endangered species. The federal Fish and Wildlife Service announced a series of decisions toward declaring the bird's population safely restored, effectively jump-starting a process that stalled several years ago.

More than 2,600 acres in the Superior National Forest have been added to a national list of public land the Bush administration wants to sell to help balance the federal budget. The land -- 65 scattered tracts on the periphery of the national forest -- would be sold at public auction, probably later this year if the plan advances.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has created two new national parks in the Amazon rain forest and expanded another to protect an environmentally sensitive region where the government plans a major highway project. Silva signed a decree placing 3.7 million acres of rain forest off limits for development.

The federal government has canceled plans to set controlled fires and conduct forest thinning on more than 17,000 acres of old-growth timber near the north rim of the Grand Canyon.