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This photo provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shows a gopher tortoise at San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park in Gainesville, Fla. The Biden administration and industry groups pledged Thursday, March 23, 2023, to promote logging practices and research intended to protect imperiled species, such as the gopher tortoise, on private forest lands. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via AP, File)

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Regulators, landowners form habitat protection partnership
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Thu,03/23/23-4:59PM , 147 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration and industry groups pledged Thursday to promote logging practices and research intended to protect imperiled species on private forest lands.
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Heather Bable and her son Ashton poses for a photograph, Feb. 25, 2023 at Sprinklz On Top restaurant in East Palestine, Ohio. Bable and her children live less than a half-mile from where a train derailed in a fiery crash Feb. 3, forcing them to evacuate and raising fears about contamination of air, soil and water. Bable her family have lived in East Palestine for four generations but she says she no longer feels safe there and is seeking a new home. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

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Aches, rashes and fear: Trauma remains after Ohio derailment
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Sat,03/11/23-7:45AM , 141 Reads
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed less than a half-mile from her home in East Palestine, Ohio.
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In this undated photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are round hickorynut mussels. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday, March, 8, 2023, it will designate the longsolid and round hickorynut mussels as threatened. This means they're likely to become in danger of extinction. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

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Federal protection granted for imperiled freshwater mussels
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Wed,03/08/23-4:05PM , 152 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering out pollutants as they feed.
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In this image taken from video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the bow of the Ironton is seen in Lake Huron off Michigan's east coast in a June 2021 photo. Searchers have found the long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. Officials with the sanctuary in Alpena, Mich,, say they've located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894. The Ironton collided with another vessel in rough seas. Reports at the time said the seven-member crew scrambled into a lifeboat but it was tethered to the ship and pulled down. Five crewmen died. (Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via AP)

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Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story
By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press
Wed,03/01/23-5:04AM , 185 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel.
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