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Swedish tourist industry worries about cuts to trail maintenance

Frank Radosevich, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, March 29, 2019 at 14:34 — Last Updated: Friday, March 29, 2019 at 14:36
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After scheduled repairs were shelved due to budget cuts, the Swedish Tourist Association is calling on the government to restore

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Elk hunting season increasingly bringing hunters and joggers in same areas in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 15, 2018 at 15:47
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Elk hunting season in Finland began on Saturday, 13 October and runs through 31 December, with 54,653 hunting permits issued

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This will cost you - unless you're over 65 or under 18. (Riku Kaminen / Yle)
Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Finland says those over 65-years-old can fish for free

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 20:28 — Last Updated: Friday, October 17, 2014 at 18:20
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The government has agreed on contentious fishing law details concerning elderly fishers. From next year onwards, over-65-year-olds will not have

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News 

Alaska biologist ‘lucked out’ that Shuyak Island grizzly mauling wasn’t worse

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 19:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 20:39
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If he’d been on either of the big islands of the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska fisheries biologist James Jackson would have

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Results are based on visitor statistics gathered by Metsähallitus in 2005-2013. Statistics from the Bothnian Sea National Park were gathered in 2011-2013. (Yle News Graphics )
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland Special Features 

Arctic parks among most visited in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:27 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 20:40
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Nuuksio, Pallas-Yllästunturi and Urho Kekkonen National Parks top the list of parks attracting growing numbers of visitors in Finland, says

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Society Society (USA) Special Features USA 

Competitor dies in grueling Alaska backcountry race

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 14:11
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The inevitable has happened in the 32-year-old Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, and 44-year-old Rob Kehrer is dead. A 10-year veteran

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Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Missing in Alaska without a trace

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, July 21, 2014 at 11:28
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The Nabesna Ranger District of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is an easy place to get lost. Sprawling east

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Society Society (USA) USA 

Quaint Alaska town of Hope ‘exploding’ with outsiders, locals say

Megan Edge, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 14:13
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Renna Martin describes a typical weekend night during the summer at her beloved Seaview Inn in the community of Hope

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Society Society (USA) USA 

Opinion: Canister of bear spray is best bet for Alaska backcountry runners

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 14:57
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Two women badly mauled by grizzly bears in the Anchorage area in less than two months, with at least one

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(iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

In Alaska bear encounters, could old advice be completely wrong?

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 15:05
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Sometimes you have to wonder if the efforts that go into trying to teach people how to handle bear encounters

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Outdoor activities are an important part of the CHAOS program. (Courtesy Chris Hobbis and Adria Collins)
Photo Galleries Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Yukon, Canada program incorporates trapping, aboriginal culture into curriculum

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 16:02 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 15:02
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Trapping, hiking and cooking over a fire. These aren’t the kinds of activities most Canadian students encounter as part of

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Sweden's 'outdoor access rights' have been translated into several languages to encourage immigrants to explore nature. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

Nature excursions offered to young Swedes from immigrant backgrounds

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 10:17
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Young immigrants are getting the taste of Swedish nature and wildlife, as part of an initiative by the Swedish Hunters

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Mike Fred, a father of two, said his fatherly instinct kicked in when he saw the bear chasing the two young cyclists. (CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Yukon man who saved cyclists from bear called a hero

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 14:07
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A man in Whitehorse, the capital city of Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory, who saved two young girls from a black

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Flattop is billed as the most-climbed peak in the state, with around 135,000 visitors in the last ten years. But sometimes the hike doesn't go as planned. ( Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska’s Flattop Mountain: Popular, treacherous, or both?

Loren Holmes, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 11:11
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Three hikers have been rescued in as many weeks from the trail up Anchorage, Alaska’s popular Flattop Mountain, which over

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Kluane National Park in Yukon is heavily glaciated. The Lowell Glacier in the park is pictured here. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Climbers rescued off Yukon,Canada mountain after 5 days

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 09:12
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Two climbers were rescued off Mount Eaton this weekend in Kluane National Park in Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory. The climbers

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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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