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Mount Rushmore, Black Hills provide South Dakota's view for the ages
2014-09-22 20:35:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
As fall begins, the light is as golden as the prairie. The sky is big and blue. This year, with lots of rain, the hills of ponderosa pines undulate in a deep, thick green carpet so solid that the hills really do look black.
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Beetles ravaging Mount Rushmore drain budgets as West warms
2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Beetles are obliterating forests throughout Colorado and the West, draining budgets as property values decline and threatening tourism at national parks, including the home of Mount Rushmore. Voters in Colorado communities raised taxes to protect ski resorts that bring in $3 billion annually to the economy. The pine beetles, each the size of a rice grain, have devoured 25 percent of the woods in South Dakota's Black Hills, where the mountain with massive carvings of Presidents George Washington,...
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Survey: Mount Rushmore tourists happy with visit
2014-03-31 03:05:51| Energy - Topix.net
A survey of hundreds of visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial shows that the vast majority of tourists are satisfied with their visit, with an average tour lasting nearly three hours, but it also highlights ways visitors say the site could be improved.
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Survey: Mount Rushmore tourists happy with visit
2014-03-31 03:03:20| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A survey of hundreds of visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial shows that the vast majority of tourists are satisfied with their visit, with an average tour lasting nearly three hours, but it also highlights ways visitors say the site could be improved.
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Some tourists upset by closure of Mount Rushmore
2013-10-03 15:46:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Some tourists are upset that Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota has been closed by the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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