Right now, about 700 cars a day pass that way, mostly towards the nearby Badlands National Park or to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 6 miles away.

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When he famously got a home run taken away from him for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983, he went from dugout to umpire in a 3.7 seconds.

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It is heated to start the reaction, and when it is complete the resins, residual acetic anhydride and acetic acid are wicked away from the wood, and the pine has become Accoya.

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Mosquitia is far away, but in the latest fires some 70% of the pine forests around Tegucigalpa have burned.

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The spruce and pine trees all around are weighed down, more snow than tree, and the steep mountainside that falls away beneath the farm is hidden behind cloud.

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