"For years, the agreement with outdoor writers was that we could talk directly to biologists about innocuous issues like (fish) stocking and, you know, bear take and deer take, stuff like that, " said Glens Falls Post-Star reporter Don Lehman, who has had an outdoors column for 19 years.

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This all occurred to Dean Miller when he was a reporter at the Post Register of Idaho Falls.

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Among the more significant local titles to lose circulation, the bigger falls included the Ayrshire Post, down by 10% to 20, 000.

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