One party attendee, Michelle Brown, said she did not think it was tasteless to hold the event on the day of the former Prime Minister's funeral.

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When replacement is cost-prohibitive or impractical, the culvert might be made more hospitable to fish and the streambed more resistant to flood damage by installing large boulders to create a step-like structure in the stream at the downstream end of the culvert, said Michelle Brown, an Adirondack Nature Conservancy biologist.

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"From outer space, all you can see at first is ice and a little brown stain, " said research fellow Michelle LaRue at the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center.

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