Utility companies and state officials blame 90% of the epic power outages on the state's dense woods.

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It was called the Lesnia, which was the name of the dense woods it meandered through as it skirted Prigorodnaia.

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Developer William West Durant's Camp Pine Knot, begun on Raquette Lake in 1877, established the architectural idiom of these retreats--log-cabin construction, stone chimneys, decorative woodwork--and the camps proliferated throughout the dense woods of northeastern New York.

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The school failed to ensure that the students take precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through dense woods known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, Munn's attorneys said.

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Though the woods are dense and thick, the gorillas leave behind muddy prints the size of baseball mitts, and are easier to spot than you may think.

BBC: Gorillas in the mix in Uganda

Then the gorillas disappear again into the woods, leading us on a slow-speed chase through the dense foliage for half an hour.

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