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The United States Forest Service announced Wednesday that it would begin a nationwide process of designating which trails are suitable for use by off-road vehicles, a move intended to limit damage to national forests.

For a week, Minneapolis street crews have been busily sweeping leaves from the 1,100 miles of the city's streets.

Five Hawks Elementary School in Prior Lake is surrounded by 33 acres of prairie, wetlands and forest. Though the land had been used informally by teachers for the past 20 years, recent donations have allowed it to become a formal part of the class day.

Japan is finally awakening to the potential of biomass fuels, such as gasoline mixed with ethanol, which is widely used in Brazil and the United States, and diesel fuel made from used cooking oil.

Several years ago, a decaying tree on the grounds of the George Eastman House threatened to fall onto East Avenue or crash into the historic mansion itself. City foresters eventually decided to remove the tree for safety's sake, but not without a lengthy dispute over whether the potential danger trumped history and aesthetics.

They traipsed through the Lake George State Forest on Friday, stopping to gaze at deer tracks, wonder at a bald eagle's nest and measure the height of trees.

Almost a decade after they were removed from Minnesota's threatened species list, bald eagles continue to make a solid recovery in the state.

A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were strikingly less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. This is believed to be the first peer-reviewed empirical and field-based study to document a clear link between coastal vegetation and protection from the tsunami.