Animals and plants were also moving up mountain slopes.

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In Idaho, a fast-moving wildfire near Mountain Home destroyed five homes and several outbuildings Monday evening.

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Mountain systems are particularly fragile as well, so many mountain ecosystems are moving along trajectories that couple high rates of environmental change with strong economic changes.

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When Boise State agreed to stay in the Mountain West, instead of moving to the Big East, the conference relented and lifted the ban on the Broncos' blue-on-blue look.

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How could Iron Mountain hope to stay in business moving around and storing boxes full of paper documents?

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Unless the economy gets moving Italy has little hope of reducing its public-debt mountain.

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