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Dindi to Yercaud: Four unexplored destinations that you should visit this season

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
As you travel up the mountain ranges to Yercaud, exchange your worries for cool hills and tranquility ... As you travel up the mountain ranges to Yercaud, exchange your worries for cool hills and tranquility ... Walk of faith reaches city The Middle Land Weekend,off the beaten trackWe know where you are going this summer Saviour for city’s water bodiesTravel agencies smile all the way to the bank as weekend getaways beckon city residents ... ....

Colorado police describe mountain lion attack and how woman saved son

Edit The Guardian 20 Jun 2016
a mountain lion was hunched over her five-year-old son, biting him ... When the woman ran outside, she found the mountain lion crouched over her younger son, who was struggling to get free ... The mountain lion was estimated to be about two years old and was not fully grown ... Wildlife officials killed two mountain lions in the area within several hours of the attack ... If you have deer, there is a good chance you’ll find mountain lions.”....

Mother Rescues Son From The Jaws Of Vicious Mountain Lion

Edit Inquisitr 20 Jun 2016
The brave mother of a 5-year-old boy is being hailed a hero this week after saving her son from a vicious attack by a mountain lion Friday ... “The mother ran outside, saw the mountain lion on her son and was able to physically remove her son from the mountain lion ... Woman tackles mountain #lion to save young son, suffers barely a scratch https.//t.co/JDPw7m6hbo pic.twitter.com/Q7jjg8ALRm....

Cleanliness is next to godliness

Edit Sierra Express Media 20 Jun 2016
I have observed with trepidation that Freetown is reverting to the dark days of the 1980’s and 1990’s when it became one of the dirtiest capital cities in Africa ... Notwithstanding the Executive Order from the late President, the Southern Region city of Bo continued to uphold the monthly cleaning exercise which has unarguably become a tradition ... Speculations and expected outcome Applaud to the Freetown City Council, but…....

Agricultural development Linked to enterprise

Edit The Himalayan 20 Jun 2016
Most common among the products with a comparative advantage in the hilly and mountain areas, which have seen rapid development in several areas, are the new niche-based products ... Many hilly and mountain areas of Nepal have activities and enterprises based on traditional skills that co-exist ... Above all market and transport are the two prerequisite conditions for pushing enterprises in the hilly and mountain areas....

Fear of snakes has followed her for a lifetime

Edit Daily Breeze 20 Jun 2016
Because I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia, I had to deal with an abundance of snakes. Because we lived very near a mountain range, the rattlers and copperheads would make it to our yards, basements, roads, and many other places near our house. This would happen especially in summers and I always thought they might be looking for more water ... ....

The paths less traveled from Old Rag

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 20 Jun 2016
As far as I'm concerned, hiking is only properly done in the mountains....

Robert J. Samuelson commentary: Vacations can be a blessing, and a curse

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 20 Jun 2016
In theory; we love it; in practice, we often dread it ... We hustle to beaches, mountains, national parks, theme parks, unfamiliar cities or (best yet!) the backyard ... In the 19th century, only the rich could abandon sweltering cities for cooler resorts ... fear of returning to a "mountain of work" (37 percent); a belief that "no one else can do the job" (30 percent); a decision that "I cannot financially afford a vacation" (30 percent) ... ....

Why Don't Americans Vacation Anymore?

Edit Real Clear Politics 20 Jun 2016
In theory; we love it; in practice, we often dread it ... We hustle to beaches, mountains, national parks, theme parks, unfamiliar cities or (best yet!) the backyard ... In the 19th century, only the rich could abandon sweltering cities for cooler resorts ... fear of returning to a "mountain of work" (37 percent); a belief that "no one else can do the job" (30 percent); a decision that "I cannot financially afford a vacation" (30 percent) ... ....

Obama Warns Climate Change 'Biggest Threat' to National Parks

Edit Voa News 20 Jun 2016
... coastal cities, agricultural communities that can be displaced in the span of a few decades by changes in temperatures that mean more drought, more wildfires," Obama said ... Before visiting Yosemite, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, Obama visited two national parks with his family to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the park system....

EMT fatally falls off cliff while taking selfie

Edit New York Post 20 Jun 2016
JoAnn Restko, who worked out of FDNY station 7 in Manhattan, was taking a picture while mountain climbing inside the expansive state park when she lost her footing and plunged to her death....

California drought bummer: Sierra water runoff coming up short

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 20 Jun 2016
The Department of Water Resources now projects that the mountains will produce about three quarters of normal runoff during the months of heaviest snowmelt, shorting the rivers and reservoirs that typically provide a third of California’s water — and cementing a fifth year of historic drought for the Golden State. [...] they come as cities and towns ......

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean

Edit The Miami Herald 20 Jun 2016
territory. The massacre of 49 people by a gunman shocked people worldwide ... AP photographer Moises Castillo traveled to the eastern mountains of Guatemala where he spent four days working documenting the onset of what experts call "seasonal hunger," the period between June and September when the previous harvest runs out ... ---. Photo gallery curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City. ....
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