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...Cedar Fire in San Diego has already claimed the life of a firefighter and winds from the Pacific have blown the fire inland toward dry piles of timber...
...Diego county sheriff’s officials announced on Tuesday they suspected the Cedar Fire had been started by a hunter who had become lost in the woods and set off a rescue flare...
...country. As yet another climber burns out after only two moves and falls back onto the mattress-like crash pad, the talk turns to the impact of climbing on the natural environment--a hot topic among climbers. Kurt Hack, 37, from South Bend, Ind., points to a cedar tree that grows right up the side of the boulder. Someone has used an ax to cut climbing steps into the trunk all the way to the top of the boulder. "Whoever did that didn't know much about low-impact climbing," says Hack...
...scarred cedar is a poignant example of the damage that climbers can do to the fragile ecosystems where they practice their sport. Camp 4 has long been home base for climbers in Yosemite, the birthplace of U.S. rock climbing. Here, where every cliff face presents an Ansel Adams moment, climbers should know better. But as the number of climbers grows--from 800,000 in 2000 to 1 million today, according to industry sources--so too does the impact they are having on the wilderness. Public-land managers, already short of funds, are struggling to keep up. Modern climbing techniques make...
...messages--more than 1 billion a month in the U.S.--spammers are targeting your mobile phone. "Not only do you have to wade through all of it, but you have to pay for it when it's on your phone," says David Chamberlain, research director for Probe Research in Cedar Knolls, N.J. Increasingly, cellular-service providers are offering a limited number of free text messages per month, but additional messages can cost from 10˘ to 25˘ each. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include the highly publicized National...