The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow River confluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.

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They also demanded stricter water-conservation rules and tried to issue bonds to pay for building and maintaining infrastructure.

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This issue clearly needs immediate conservation attention.

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Our challenge in the conservation community is to make a top issue like the economy.

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Not surprisingly, given a decade of elegant, richly nuanced, hard-hitting and diverse data, this particular issue is symbolic of the future of conservation: enormously challenging.

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But I can see a real breakthrough perhaps because of the several things that have happened for us to move forward on that issue, both more production and more serious conservation.

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If you have a big tax issue (say a lawsuit recovery, a casualty loss or conservation easement), keep that file separate.

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Conservation groups have welcomed the move as the first official co-operation between the two nations on the issue.

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