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Don't know how many of you that own private properties and have trespassers crossing your land during hunting season. Dealing with the right and wrong is another article. Here's a video that captures a hunting trespasser getting painted while traversing through this owner's property. Have a look.

Have you heard of the "Great Outdoors Initiative"? Across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It's another stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. In April, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his "21st century strategy for America's great outdoors." It was addressed to the interior secretary, the agriculture secretary, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The memo...

Cuba is to put more state-controlled farm land into private hands, in a move to increase the island's lagging food production.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Awash with wildlife and native plants but devoid of cars, tract houses and other signs of modern life, the section of the Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge near the historic Missouri River town of Arrow Rock in many ways resembles the route traversed by explorers Lewis and Clark more than two centuries ago. The refuge's Jameson Island unit is a landscape that former Arizona governor and federal Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt envisions duplicating along the rest of the river's 350 winding miles from St. Louis to Kansas City - a plan sure to...

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The new version of the Endangered Species Act approved by the House is unlikely to pass muster in the Senate, at least right away. Critics worry especially about a murky provision that could pay landowners tens of millions of dollars in damages for property devalued by restrictions due to rare critters or plants. Nonetheless, sponsors' success in getting this far and winning bipartisan backing shows widespread recognition of problems in one of the nation's most venerable environmental laws. In a barometer of emotions flowing on the issue, no fewer than four Old Testament books (Genesis, Psalms,...

RICE LAKE, Wis. (AP) - Two survivors of a deadly deer-hunting confrontation joined a community prayer service where organizers urged people to avoid falling into fear and prejudice in the wake of the shootings blamed on a Hmong immigrant. Lauren Hesebeck and Terry Willers, whose six friends were killed in the shootings, sat near each other at the service Tuesday organized by area ministers. About 900 people packed the auditorium for the 70-minute service of prayers, Bible readings, music and calls for healing in this town of 8,300 - a community one pastor described as full of "souls exhausted by...

High court to decide when cities can seize private land Case involves town's plan to raze homes, businesses for riverfront hotel By GINA HOLLAND Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide when local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will to make way for projects like shopping malls and hotel complexes that produce more tax revenue.