The U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive energy bill on July 30 that includes full and dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act of 2010, H.R. 3534, which includes provisions from the Oil Spill Accountability and Environmental Protection Act (H.R. 5629), is intended to address safety and liability issues revealed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Remember Tom and Huck, those two free-spirited scallywags last seen rafting down the Mississippi River?? Well, they showed up again, a century later, canoeing on the Connecticut River, going under different names and disguised as over-the-hill voyageurs.