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Kayaking, Canoeing and Tubing in the Nebraska Sandhills
Travel|Floating the Lazy Rivers of Nebraska’s Spring-Fed Water World https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/travel/nebraska-sandhills-rivers.html You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. So the Rockies rose up, and the rivers bled out, and for roughly 15 million years, the last sandy dregs washed across the ancient savannas of north-central Nebraska, still busy with bear dogs and three-toed horses.
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Damaged homes in Elkorn, Neb., following a tornado that tore through the area, on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Tornadoes tore through parts of Nebraska and Iowa on Friday, leveling dozens of homes, causing the collapse of an industrial building and injuring at least nine people, extending an outbreak of severe weather that started the day before. (Walker Pickering/The New York Times)
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Sherri Webb, who owns 40 acres of farmland in Shelby County, Iowa, at her home on July 25, 2023. Webb says it was worries about losing land to eminent domain that got her involved in the fight against the pipeline. (Walker Pickering/The New York Times)
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An anti-pipeline sign reads “No Easement” in a field in Shelby County, Iowa, on July 25, 2023. Liberal environmentalists and conservative landowners, led by the former congressman Steve King, are pressuring Republican candidates to block two huge Midwestern pipelines. (Walker Pickering/The New York Times)
How the Virus Slowed the Booming Wind Energy Business
Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadline. Then, in early April, the pandemic dealt a big blow to the company. A manager at afactory that was building the giant cylinders on which the turbines sit had died of the coronavirus, shutting down the plant and delaying EDF’s workby five weeks.
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