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High School Cross Country Team Take Shelter Dogs For a Run

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These abandoned pups were taken out for the time of their lives thanks to a nearby high school cross country team.

Coach Luis Escobar of the St. Joseph High School Cross Country Team in Santa Maria, California had been trying to figure out how his students could have fun while logging their necessary volunteer hours that their curriculums require.

Then he thought of the pups cooped up at the Santa Barbara County Animal Services and got an idea: his runners could do their daily jog while tracking volunteer hours and giving the shelter dogs some exercise.

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The teens were paired with twelve dogs for a few miles of romping and – judging by the adorable video below – it was a great success.

“I am not sure who was more excited and having the most fun…the dogs or the kids,” he wrote in his Facebook post. “Either way, it was a great time and I am sure we will do it again sometime soon.”

(WATCH the video below)

 

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Watch 1,000 Musicians Play Epic Tribute to David Bowie

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The same group of 1,000 musicians that demanded a Foo Fighters concert in their town by simultaneously playing “Learn To Fly” is back to pay homage to the late and great rock visionary David Bowie.

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After the Rockin’ 1,000 in Cesena, Italy – also known as the biggest rock and roll group in the world – performed their plea in 2015, the Foos actually ended up visiting their town to play a show.

This week, they organized the “That’s Live” concert with a performance of Ziggy Stardust’s “Rebel Rebel”.

(WATCH the rock and roll video above)

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Flight Attendant Adopts Stray Dog That Always Awaited Her Return From Countries Abroad

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When Olivia Sievers paid attention to this poor homeless pooch outside her hotel, it was love at first sight—afterwards, he only had puppy eyes for her.

In February 2016, the German flight attendant flew to Argentina for business. On her way to the Hilton in Buenos Aires, she met the amiable stray for the first time and offered him some love and attention. The dog refused to leave her side and followed her all the way to the hotel, hanging out with her for two days whenever she left the building.

When it was time for Olivia to fly back to Germany, she sadly bid a fond farewell to her new friend expecting to never see him again.

But in April she returned and they reunited for two more days. They spent many hours walking many miles together—and he always followed her back to the hotel.

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Afterward, she didn’t fly to Buenos Aires for three months. When she returned in July, she wanted to sleep for a few hours and planned to search for the dog and continue trying to find him a home.

When she came down to the lobby, he was already sitting in front of the Hilton’s glass doors.Rubio The Dog-Olivia Sievers Facebook

‘How did he know I was back,’ she wondered.

“The Hotel staff told me later that day, that he was sitting in front of the hotel for three months—sometimes returning a few times a day—looking for me.”

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This time, she tried to arrange an adoption with a manager in a nearby hotel in San Telmo. She delivered the dog, whom he named Rubio, but after one week he escaped, faithfully backtracking the 1.7 kilometers to join the flight attendant once more at the hotel in Puerto Madero.

Olivia realized their long-distance relationship had to end.

To save Rubio from his dangerous life as a street dog, she decided to adopt the hound herself, bringing him all the way home to Germany. He has settled in happily with her other pooches and now spends long afternoons romping in the back yard never having a care in the world about where in the world Olivia might be.

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An audio book about their extraordinary friendship, “Love without Borders – Rubio, the most loyal dog of the world” is available on Amazon.

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Michael Phelps Gets Revenge, Wins Two Olympic Medals for Historic Tally of 21 (WATCH)

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A famed US swimmer won back the gold medal that is closest to his heart on a day of pure dominance for the most medaled Olympic athlete of all time.

By his own admission, Michael Phelps “couldn’t have scripted it any better,” but Tuesday would also be the toughest day of his career.

The 200m butterfly was the event in the last Olympics, in London in 2012, where he was beaten by a fingertip by South African Chad Le Clos. But yesterday the 31-year-old exacted revenge in Rio and won it one last time.

“Mission accomplished,” he said on Tuesday after claiming the 20th Olympic gold of his career. “That was the last time I’ll ever swim it and I didn’t say anything to anyone else, but there wasn’t a shot in hell I was losing it.”

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Remarkably, his historic tally of gold medals rose to 21 after he helped Team USA win the 4x200m freestyle relay, just 70 minutes later.

Phelps said he had been prepared to leave “every ounce” in the pool, and it paid off when he won by just 0.04 seconds. “Just being able to see the number one next to my name again, one more time in the 200 fly, I couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

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The London 2012 gold medallist swimmer Le Clos just missed out on the bronze, which was won by Tamas Kenderesi of Hungary, and the silver went to Japan’s Masato Sakai.

(WATCH the Highlight Reel From SB Nation)

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How A Yellow Car Saved Me From Myself

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Toni Powell’s delightful and funny ‘once upon a time’ time style tale ‘How A Yellow Car Saved Me’ tells the story of how one little car changed her life. Just a few moments of epiphany, in a quiet suburban street, gave her the simplest of tools to reduce her anxiety, stress and whining.

RELATED: Quiet Time Program Brings Radical Improvement To Schools Worldwide

If you’d like to be happier, smile more, and stress less – watch this video. To find out more and get the book ‘The Yellow Car – How I Stopped Driving Myself Crazy’ (which tells the rest of the story and includes a second epiphany) visit Toni Powell’s website.

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Watch Man Use His Flyboard to Extinguish Boat Fire

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The fire department didn’t even have time to arrive before Jesse Gavic had extinguished the blaze ravaging a pontoon boat on Saturday.

When Jesse and his brother Caleb saw the smoke climbing over the Minnesota lake, they got their flyboard ready and took to the skies over the boat.

After politely seeking permission to put out the fire from the sailors who had jumped overboard, Jesse used the flyboard’s water to spray the boat until it stopped smoking two minutes later.

“It’s different than anything anyone has probably ever tried,” Jesse Gavic told WCCO. “You really do feel like Iron Man.”

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A flyboard is a jet-propelled pair of boots that is connected by hose to a jet ski or watercraft. The water shooting out of the boots is enough to carry someone up to 50 feet into the air.

The brothers are international flyboarding competitors and help run the Sky High Flyboards company in Minneapolis.

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Crowd Cheers as Girl Saves Unsuspecting Fan from Fast Fly Ball (WATCH)

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A ball girl at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California prevented certain disaster when she caught a 103 mile per hour fly baseball that was headed straight towards a fan who was not paying attention.

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After using her cat-like reflexes to snatch it out of the air, the crowd roared with approval as she handed the ball to the man she had just saved.

(WATCH the jaw-dropping video above)

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Couple Can’t Find Cruelty-Free Diamonds So They Make Their Own

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When Murad Osman wanted to propose to his girlfriend Nataly in India, he couldn’t bring himself to spend money on the diamond industry that exploited child labor and the environment.

That’s why the couple started Follow Your Love: a conflict-free jewelry line that sells man made diamonds equal in brilliance to natural gems that took millions of years to develop in the ground– except it only takes a matter of weeks.

The process for manufacturing the man made diamonds dates back to the 1950s when the High Pressure, High Temperature technique was originally developed by General Electric.

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“In this process, we melt graphite under tremendous pressure and temperature to mimic nature’s process,” Follow Your Love’s COO, Isaac Gottesman told the Good News Network.

The molten metal alloy produces 2-3 carat cuboctahedral-shaped crystals with a variety of color ranges — or a 1 carat faceted gem that is colorless.

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The company also donates a minimum 10% of their proceeds to The Adventure Project, a nonprofit that provides support and resources to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

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Have Tissues Ready: Gwen Stefani Invites Bullied Fan on Stage (WATCH)

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In the midst of her tour promoting her latest album “This Is What The Truth Feels Like” Gwen Stefani paused her show mid-performance to show a bullied fan some love.

A mother at the West Palm Beach, Florida show passed a sign to the pop star reading “My son was bullied from first to fifth grade. He would come home every day upset, but he’d go to his room, listen to your music, and smile.”

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Without missing a beat, the singer demanded the little boy join her on stage.

Not only did he receive rousing applause from the audience and bear hugs from Gwen, but he was also invited backstage after the show for selfies.

(WATCH the tear-jerking video below)

 

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Watch Woman Surprise Stepdad With Porsche He Gave Up To Marry Her Mom

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Dave had spent years putting money away so he could restore his favorite automobile to working condition: a white 1973 Porsche 914.

That is, until he met Kristin Russell’s mom and spent every dime of his savings on their wedding, leaving his beloved car gutted for parts.

Years passed and eventually Kristin becomes a grown woman who wants to give back to the stepdad that was always there for her by tracking down a replacement of his dream Porsche.

After countless searches, the determined daughter finally finds a model in Arizona and she starts on a cross-country mission from her home in California to pick up the car and bring it to a mechanic near her parent’s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Father’s Day.

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Kristin starts by giving Dave a card explaining how grateful she is to have him in her life – then she has someone rev the vehicle’s engine outside.

When the lucky stepdad walks outside, he doesn’t realize the car is his right away – but when he does, he can’t believe it.

(WATCH the beautiful surprise below)

 

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‘Mood ATM’ Checks in on User’s Feelings Instead of Their Money

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Now instead of checking up on the varying states of their bank accounts, New Zealand pedestrians can take a look at how the residents of their city are feeling.

The Moodbank is an ATM-like machine where users can select a combination of over 1,000 moods and emotions to explain how they’re feeling.

Engineered by Australian artist Vanessa Crowe as an experiment in human and technologic interaction, the installation has been making its way around New Zealand, creating a geographic mood map of the country.

The graphs show incredibly colorful and elaborate trends of people feeling moods such as ‘snappy’, ‘peachy’, ‘groggy’, ‘loved’, and ‘buzzing’.

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“City spaces have often been thought about in terms of the functional flows of people and things: the money that is exchanged, the congestion of rush hour, the accumulation of rubbish and the cold face of professionalism,” reads the Moodbank Tumblr. “More recently businesses, governments, and social media have come to see the value in finding out how happy we are. But what about the more diverse and complex emotional life of the city?”

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The first Moodbank branch opened in Wellington in March 2014, with over 2000 mood deposits made in the first ten days, many of which took shape in the form of colored pencil drawings. The Moodbank ATM itself has moved from Wellington, to Auckland, to Whangarei.

You can check in on the Moodbank deposits on the project’s website, Tumblr, or Facebook page.

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Man Breaks Down in Tears When Graduating Girl Asks Him To Be Her Dad (WATCH)

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Lauren Hernandez didn’t just become a high school graduate – she became the officially adopted daughter of a new dad.

During her graduation party, Lauren surprised Joe Iosco – her mother’s boyfriend of 17 years – with a framed poem and adoption papers to make him her legal father.

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Joe was so overcome with happiness, he fell to the ground in tears as Lauren announced the good news to the crowd.

(WATCH the heartwarming clip above)

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Tesla Autopilot Feature Saves Sick Driver’s Life

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Joshua Neally may not have made it to the hospital in time to save himself from the pulmonary embolism crippling his system if it hadn’t been for his week-old automobile.

Neally had only been driving a Tesla Model X for seven days when all of a sudden on his way home from work in Springfield, Missouri, an intense pain started to grow in his abdomen.

The driver switched on the autopilot feature and directed it towards the nearest hospital 20 miles away.

“It was kinda getting scary. I called my wife and just said ‘something’s wrong’ and I couldn’t breathe, I was gasping, kind of hyperventilating,” Neally told KYTV-TV. “I just knew I had to get there, to the ER.”

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Pulmonary embolisms are blocked blood vessels in the lungs that can be fatal if not treated quickly. If Joshua wasn’t escorted to the hospital by the Model X, he would have had to pull over and wait for an ambulance – which may have spelt disaster for the Missouri lawyer.

Even though the autopilot feature has been controversially hailed, Neally has vouched for the technology ever since the life-saving incident in July.

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Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon Play Hilarious Celebrity Photobomb Prank (WATCH)

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Tourists on top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City in 2014 thought that they were getting their photos taken for the building’s website.

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Little did they know that Golden Globe winning actor Jon Hamm and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon were making side-splitting guest appearances behind their backs.

(WATCH the hilarious montage above)

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Siberian Ice Drummers Use Frozen Lake as Musical Instrument (WATCH)

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Siberian percussion group Ethnobeat aren’t famous for waling on any ordinary drums – the foursome are renowned for beating out funky grooves using only a frozen lake as their instrument.

Lake Baikal is the deepest and largest freshwater lake in the world – it also becomes a fantastic set of bongos in cold weather. With temperatures averaging at -4º Farenheit (-20º Celsius), the ice freezes to roughly one meter thick.

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But when these Russians start slapping the lake’s chilly surfaces, it’s hard not to marvel at how much it sounds like a steel drum’s tropical beats.

(WATCH the video above)

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Watch Italian Sailor Use Mouth-to-Mouth to Rescue Drowning Kitten

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By the time the Italian coast guard reached this unconscious feline floating on the waves, they thought that they already might be too late.

After having their attention drawn to the creature’s plight by children on the shore, one of the sailors dived into the ocean to rescue the kitten and bring it aboard the boat.

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A few nerve-wracking minutes of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and massaging later, the bedraggled little kitten finally awoke.

Once a veterinarian declared the cat unharmed, he was immediately adopted by the Marsala district office and fondly dubbed Charlie.

(WATCH the rescue in the video above)

Boy Has Spent Years Donating Thousands of Smoke Detectors to Families in Need

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When Hector Montoya was only 9-years-old, he happened to see one of the many horror stories regularly broadcasted on the news: a little girl’s parents had perished in a house fire.

Since he was confused as to why the family didn’t have a smoke detector, his grandmother simply said that “some people do and some people don’t.”

That wasn’t a good enough reason for Hector – so instead of using the $300 stashed away in his savings account for a new Playstation 4, the boy spent the money on smoke detectors.

Now 11-years-old, Hector has donated 6,425 smoke detectors to families across Texas.

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After his most recent contribution of 125 detectors to the Desoto Fire Department on Wednesday, the boy was honored for his generosity in a ceremony featuring local firefighters, his family, and the city mayor. The donations will be distributed throughout nearby senior homes in need.

Hector’s compassionate actions make sense considering he dreams of one day becoming a firefighter himself.

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“We have a fire academy here. We’re giving him a scholarship for the academy. He’s given so much, and we’re going to give a little back to him,” DeSoto Fire Rescue Chief Jerry Duffield told Inside Edition. “A smoke detector wakes [up families], gets them outside, saves their lives. Not only is Hector saving the lives of these folks who wake up and hear the alarm, he’s also saving the lives of the firefighters who are first to respond to a scene, having to make a tough decision about sending people in. There’s a lot of layers of what he’s done.”

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This 86-Year-old Stranger is Paying for 8 Students’ College Tuition

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Since he made his own fortunes through real estate, Dale Stoner has been able to cover every want or need his family has ever had – yet now that he’s in his old age and his kids are all grown up, he’s decided to give back to his community by paying for eight high school students’ college tuition.

Dale sat down with officials at University Prep in Victorville, California and found several names of hardworking teens that deserved the financial leg up.

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Two of the kids, Ronaldo Lopez and Tonantcy Vargas, were introduced to the elderly philanthropist so he could surprise them with the big news in person.

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Veteran Homelessness Has Dropped 50% Since 2010

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) today announced the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010. The data revealed a 17 percent decrease in veteran homelessness between January 2015 and January 2016—quadruple the previous year’s annual decline—and a 47 percent decrease since 2010.

Through HUD’s annual Point-in-Time (PIT) estimate of America’s homeless population, communities across the country reported that fewer than 40,000 veterans were experiencing homelessness on a given night in January 2016. The January 2016 estimate found just over 13,000 unsheltered homeless veterans living on their streets, a 56 percent decrease since 2010. View local estimates of veteran homelessness.

This significant progress is a result of the partnership among HUD, VA, USICH, and other federal, state and local partners. These critical partnerships were sparked by the 2010 launch of Opening Doors, the first-ever strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. The initiative’s success among veterans can also be attributed to the effectiveness of the HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program, which combines HUD rental assistance with case management and clinical services provided by the VA. Since 2008, more than 85,000 vouchers have been awarded and more than 114,000 homeless veterans have been served through the HUD-VASH program.

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“We have an absolute duty to ensure those who’ve worn our nation’s uniform have a place to call home,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “While we’ve made remarkable progress toward ending veteran homelessness, we still have work to do to make certain we answer the call of our veterans just as they answered the call of our nation.”

In 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness with the goal of accelerating progress toward the ambitious national goal of ending veteran homelessness. More than 880 mayors, governors, and other local officials have joined the challenge and committed to ending veteran homelessness in their communities. To date, 27 communities and two states have effectively ended veteran homelessness, serving as models for others across the nation.

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HUD and VA have a wide range of programs that prevent and end homelessness among veterans, including health care, housing solutions, job training and education. In FY 2015, these programs helped more than 157,000 people—including 99,000 veterans and 34,000 children—secure or remain in permanent housing. Since 2010, more than 360,000 veterans and their families have been permanently housed, rapidly rehoused or prevented from becoming homeless through programs administered by HUD and VA.

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Louisiana Black Bear Removed From Endangered Species List

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The Louisiana black bear is the state mammal for Louisiana, and it is one of 16 subspecies of the American black bear. While the American black bear can be found across North America, the Louisiana black bear subspecies is only known to occur in Louisiana, East Texas and western Mississippi. Compared to other black bears, the Louisiana black bear’s skull is longer, narrower and flatter, with larger molar teeth.

By 1980, more than 80 percent of the Louisiana black bear’s habitat had been modified or destroyed, and on January 7, 1992, the bear was listed as threatened within its historic range.

The mammal was removed from the Lists of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife under the Endangered Species Act due to recovery.

Recovery was made possible thanks to the active partnerships of many private landowners, state and federal agencies, universities and non-governmental organizations. Since the Louisiana black bear was listed in 1992, voluntary landowner-incentive-based habitat restoration programs and environmental regulations have not only stopped the net loss of forested lands in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial River Valley, but have resulted in significant habitat gains.

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A major factor in this positive habitat trend is the success of incentive-based private land restoration programs, such as the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Since 1992, more than 148,000 acres of habitat have been permanently protected and/or restored through the WRP program. Additional private lands have been restored through the efforts of private landowners and organizations. Over 65,000 additional acres of bottomland hardwood forest have been protected and restored through the efforts of such groups as Wildlife Mississippi, Mississippi Land Trust Mississippi River Trust, Black Bear Conservation Coalition, Bear Education and Restoration Group of Mississippi and the East Texas Black Bear Task Force.

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Currently it is estimated that between 500 and 750 Louisiana black bears roam the United States, approximately double the population size at the time of listing. Techniques such as live trapping, winter den inspections, radio telemetry monitoring, and DNA sampling have been used to determine population size.

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