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  Bringing charm back to Riverland
  Adelaide Now
  Brian Smith's airboat has disturbed its peaceful journey across the River Murray. "That's a rare shot," the tour operator bellows. "I've been doing this for about eight years and I've only ever seen one like that." Mr Smith operates his airboat from ...
  
  
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  Commissioners vote to oppose airboat bill, other proposed legislation
  Gainesville Sun
  By Christopher Curry County commissioners voted Tuesday to oppose four pieces of proposed legislation filed in Tallahassee this session, including a bill that would pre-empt the county's voter-approved airboat curfew. The letter commissioners voted to ...
  
  
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  Airboat bill will ruin our quiet lakes
  Ocala
  First, it more than doubles the allowable airboat noise to levels that equal the front row of a live rock concert — and almost three times louder than the state allows for new trucks and motorcycles. Second, it proposes an inappropriate test that will ...
  
  
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  Joseph Phillips: Plagued by airboat noise on Orange Lake
  Gainesville Sun
  I have read your comments regarding your refiling the Airboat Bill, SB 958. You stated: "The Marion County people who equally have half of the lake on their side, they didn't get a chance to vote, nobody in Marion County could vote, even though their ...
  
  
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  Whitey Markle: Yes, airboats do make noise
  Gainesville Sun
  Alachua County Commissioner Susan Baird said the airboat curfew was voted in by people who don't live on the waterways. Jerry Wethrington, the head of the local airboaters, said the voters didn't know what they were voting for. State Sen.
  
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  Outdoors: Ducks boarding airboats to join the band
  Worcester Telegram
  Airboating has allowed waterfowl project leader H Heusmann and his MassWildlife team of researchers to band great numbers of ducks, vastly expanding our knowledge of Massachusetts waterfowl. Without the limitations of traditional stationary traps, ...
  
  
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  Florida Deer Rifles for Under $600
  Florida Sportsman Magazine
  In other Florida hunting news today, Cocoa-based Diamondback Airboats will be drawing the eyes of attendees at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas next week (January 17). Mossy Oak Graphics announced a live demonstration applying its ...
  
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  Body recovered in search for missing Hancock County snowmobiler
  Bangor Daily News
  By Tom Walsh, BDN Staff A Maine Warden Service airboat hauls divers through light snow to Eagle Island on Graham Lake on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 during a search of a snowmobiler who has been missing since Friday afternoon. WALTHAM, Maine — The search ...
  
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  County may push legislators opposing proposed state airboat law
  Gainesville Sun
  By Christopher Curry The Alachua County Commission may send letters to legislators asking them to reject proposed legislation that would undercut the local airboat curfew that voters approved in November 2010. One of those legislators, State Sen.