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Federal park police can arrest people on federal lands but Trump would probably need city and county police to enforce camping bans in most areas of the country.

During the course of the Nakba, the removal of Palestinians from their lands was accompanied by the renaming of sites and often by planting trees on the sites of villages, terraced fields and olive groves.

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They also say the lands aren’t being adequately protected from those seeking to pillage natural resources and visitors who trash sacred sites.

"Our study demonstrates the potential of tree islands to transform biodiversity-poor agricultural lands into ecosystems teeming with biodiversity and native plants."

The findings could bolster First Nations tribes’ legal claims to their traditional lands.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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