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LANDS COMMISSIONER TOUTS DNR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STORM RECOVERY AID
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Doug Sutherland is only the fourth person to hold the title of Commissioner of Public Lands in the 50-year history of the Department of Natural Resources. Tuesday evening he was in Aberdeen touting not only the overall job the agency has done in that half-century, but its efforts to quickly respond to last December's major storm. Sutherland says photographs and maps of the timber blowdown areas will be on the agency's new Web site, a technological advantage denied to previous agencies that will prove an invaluable resource as the state continues to work on storm recovery. Sutherland also noted the agency's increased role as a facilitator for outdoor recreation, a role not envisioned when Bert Cole became the first Lands Commissioner in 1957. The Aberdeen meeting was one of 13 the agency is having around the state to celebrate its 50th anniversary. |
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China quake death toll could rise to 50,000
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Bush leaves it to Olmert to push Mideast peace
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Local heroes step in to help cyclone victims
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Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting with rallies
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Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000
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Nigerian pipeline fire kills about 100 people
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Incoming president of Taiwan doubts China unification
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UN official says foreign agents are killing Afghans
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Iraqi forces hunt door-to-door for Mosul militants
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Top Taliban leader vows revenge on America
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California's top court overturns gay marriage ban
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DoD: Chinook helicopters at Pa. plant vandalized
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More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
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Firefighters get upper hand on Florida wildfire
PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) -- A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into woods that are among the thousands of acres that have burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may have accidentally sparked a fire....
Immigrant workers in New Orleans start leaving
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NY prosecutor wins big with Spitzer investigation
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HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer
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Scandal-plagued Ohio attorney general resigns
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair....
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