Canadians OK Plan to Create Vast National Park

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By Doug Struck
Updated: 2:36 a.m. ET
Oct 14, 2006
TORONTO - The government and native groups agreed Friday to move forward to preserve an area almost four times the size of Yellowstone Park in far northern Canada, and said they would study making other areas off-limits to burgeoning diamond and uranium mining interests there.
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They want to protect the Boreal Forest, a great green swath across North America that is vital to wildlife, summer home to many of the continent's birds and crucial to slowing global warming.

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