New Forest District Council and New Forest National Park Authority subsequently withdrew their objections to the scheme.

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Cross-country skiing is especially wonderful in the Bavarian Forest National Park.

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Surrounded by national park and forest, there is plenty of camping in the Jackson Hole area.

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The hotel has its own wildlife biologist and photographer, Tenley Thompson, who created the programme and trained a team of naturalists to take small groups (with at least one guide for every five hotel guests) on customised wildlife safari tours through Bridger Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge.

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Depending on who owns the land, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the National Park Service or state wildlife commissions may all have jurisdiction.

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It took another 100 years for the forest to be officially designated a national park in 1961 and only over the last decade have tracks been clearly marked and reasonably well kept.

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In Japan such movies are enormously popular-to the extent that Totoro fans succeeded in having the forest that inspired the film declared a national park.

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Its six villages are cut off from the rest of the country, except for a single mountain road that runs through a broad belt of virgin forest that forms part of the Swiss National Park.

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After the lumber industry depleted local forest, the area became designated a protected national park with a coastline famous for spotting resident beluga whales and other species that migrate here to feed in the nutrient-rich waters.

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The Garajonay National Park is an extremely rare example of the humid sub-tropical forest that covered most of Europe before the arrival of man.

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