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FILE In this June 11, 2014 file photo, the Little Missouri River winds it's way inside the Theodore Roosevelt National Park located in the Badlands of North Dakota, atop the Bakken shale, an oil-rich rock formation. A new study has found that a single oil and gas field in the western U.S. is responsible for a global uptick of the air pollutant ethane. The research team found that fossil fuel production at the Bakken Formation located in North Dakota and Montana is emitting roughly 2 percent of the ethane detected in the Earth’s atmosphere. Ethane reacts with sunlight to form ozone, which triggers respiratory problems.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Recreation.gov: We have people’s vacations in our hands

Interior Department and Forest Service officials say a new $182 million contract awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton will make it easier for travelers to plan…

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