Word: ranchland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killed off by relentless bounty hunters and government agents. Over the past decade, a few wolves have moved from Canada back into northern Montana and Idaho, but most experts thought it would take many years before they spread out and found ways to cross interstate highways and hostile ranchland to reach Yellowstone...
...overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning: "Get out now." A most discouraging word came from Trinity River Authority...