Sunday,  June 3, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 325 • 17 of 35 •  Other Editions

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Sept. 28-29 in Sioux Falls.
• Alexie's 2007 book, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," won a National Book Award. The book has been selected as SDSU's common read for the fall semester. The common read is geared toward students in university orientation classes.
• Tickets for Alexie's speech will be available in late summer.
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USFS moves Lake Tahoe logging; still criticized
SCOTT SONNER,Associated Press

• RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Forest Service officials have agreed to move post-fire logging operations at Lake Tahoe farther away from nests with rare, black-backed

woodpecker chicks at the request of conservationists who've been fighting the overall project for years.
• But leaders of the John Muir Project -- who have documented one nest in the path of the logging and suspect there are more -- say the no-cut buffers the agency is implementing are far too small to protect one of the rarest birds in the Sierra Nevada.
• "No credible black-backed woodpecker scientist would say it is enough -- not even close," said Chad

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