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Greater sage grouse perform their annual mating ritual near a blind south of the North Park community of Walden, Colo., April 21, 2007. Small communities such as Walden in the interior West have turned to staging wildlife tours to drum up dollars for their struggling local economies. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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