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Getting ready for the Rainbows
The Casper Star Tribune, WY
Various "unofficial" Web sites and blogs associated with the Rainbow gathering have confirmed local media reports that the Rainbow Family has chosen Big ...

Forest Service: Rainbow Family group to gather in Wyoming
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - May 30, 2008
Officials with the US Forest Service say they expect the annual Rainbow Family gathering to be held somewhere in Wyoming this summer. The "Rainbow Gathering ...

Rainbows to gather in western Wyoming
Jackson Hole Daily, WY - Jun 4, 2008
... forest lands in Wyoming from July 1-7. This will be the third Rainbow Gathering to take place in Wyoming, where similar events happened in 1973 and 1994.

Out in Wyoming, one mighty July 4 do
Media Life Magazine - Jun 9, 2008
They have no leaders as such, and it's so loose it's not entirely clear how the Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes all comes together once a year, but it does, ...

Rainbows pick Big Sandy
Jackson Hole Daily, WY - Jun 10, 2008
Thus begins this year’s Rainbow gathering, an event that in years past has drawn up to 20000. People from around the world will gather about 90 air miles ...
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Rainbows coming to area forest
Pinedale Roundup, WY - Jun 11, 2008
For the first time since 1994, the Rainbow Family of Living Light will be returning to Wyoming soil with its annual Rainbow Gathering planned to take place ...

Getting ready for the Rainbows
The Casper Star Tribune, WY - 17 hours ago
Various "unofficial" Web sites and blogs associated with the Rainbow gathering have confirmed local media reports that the Rainbow Family has chosen Big ...

Federal officials prep for Rainbow Family gathering
KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA - 16 Jun 2008
(AP) - Federal officials are gearing up for this year's Rainbow Family gathering in Wyoming. US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management personnel began ...
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'Grandpa Woodstock' spreads peace on journey
Tunkhannock New Age Examiner - Tunkhannock,PA,USA - 18 Jun 2008
His final destination is the Bridger-Teton National Forest, in Wyoming, where this year's Rainbow Gathering will take place. The Rainbow Gathering is a ...
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Opposes Rainbows
Pinedale Roundup - Pinedale,WY,USA - 18 Jun 2008
I am writing today to shed TRUE LIGHT on the issue of the "Rainbow Family Gathering" that is poised to take place in our region. ...
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Police begin patrols downtown to curb panhandling
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA - 19 Jun 2008
Popovich also said many people who would otherwise be downtown left to go to a Rainbow Family gathering in Wyoming. He said he tells street people to pick ...
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Enjoying the weather
Appeal-Democrat - Marysville,CA,USA - 20 Jun 2008
They will be heading to the Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest in the next few days. Yuba-Sutter residents can expect hot weather ...
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Feds to Rainbows: Move gathering
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 21 Jun 2008
By CHRIS MERRILL PINEDALE -- There may be a new era of cooperation dawning between the Rainbow Family and the US Forest Service, but it's getting off to a ...
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Feds ask Rainbows to move gathering
KULR-TV - Billings,MT,USA - 21 Jun 2008
By AP PINEDALE, WYOMING - The federal government has asked the "Rainbow Family of Living Light" to move its annual gathering from a chosen spot near Big ...
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Managing Rainbows
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 22 Jun 2008
At a recent Rainbow gathering, there was an outbreak of potentially deadly meningitis, Smithson said. Local health authorities had to scramble to treat ...
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Sublette official blasts Feds
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 22 Jun 2008
A high-ranking federal official has dropped the ball in his dealings with the Rainbow Family by not requiring accountability from the group -- and by leaving local authorities out of the loop ...

First forest fire of year starts near Dutch Joe
Jackson Hole Guide - Jackson,WY,USA - 24 Jun 2008
The incident management team is assigned to the Rainbow Gathering, an annual planned week-long camp of free spirits that can draw thousands. ...
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Researchers seek health aid for Rainbow youth
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Wyoming Department of Health spokeswoman Kim Deti says her agency has had few details to work with in the months before the gathering, so it plans to focus ...
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Rainbows displace Boy Scouts
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
The Rainbow Family has chosen that same general area for its annual national Rainbow Gathering of Living Light, a counterculture celebration of peace, ...
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'It appears the group has managed to intimidate an entire federal ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA - 26 Jun 2008
But the conflict arose with the Wyoming location and dates, because Rainbow Family participants announced they would meet in the same general location as ...
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Wyoming briefs
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 26 Jun 2008
... was still missing Wednesday, but his pickup truck has been discovered in the Big Sandy area, near where the Rainbow Family gathering is taking place. ...
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Rainbow Family should show respect for others
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 26n Jun 2008
Give the US Forest Service credit for trying to work with the Rainbow Family on a site for the group's gathering in the Bridger-Teton National Forest next ...
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Senator blasts agencies on Rainbow gathering
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 27 Jun 2008
He asked the secretary to give the situation in Wyoming "priority attention." "The Rainbow Family Gathering displaced the Boy Scouts of America who had ...
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Missing man's truck at least five miles away from Rainbow Gathering
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 27 Jun 2008
Garrett Bardin's Lincoln Mark LT truck was not parked near established parking areas for the Rainbow Gathering of Living Light, said Randall Hanson, ...
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News Minute: Here is the latest Wyoming news from The Associated Press
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA - 27 Jun 2008
... is urging people not to pick up hitchhikers as members of the Rainbow Family head through the county for this year's gathering in the Big Sandy area. ...
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Pickup found near Rainbows, no sign of sheriff's son
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA - 27 Jun 2008
... pickup truck south on Wyoming Highway 191. The pickup was found in the Big Sandy area near where the Rainbow Family has been gathering in recent weeks. ...
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Searchers find man's pickup
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 25 Jun 2008
... County man is still missing, but his pickup truck has been discovered in the Big Sandy area, near where the Rainbow Family gathering is taking place. ...
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Locals tense ahead of "Rainbow" gathering
KTAK - Riverton,WY,USA - 27 Jun 2008
"The Rainbow Family Gathering displaced the Boy Scouts of America who had planned to do an ecological project," wrote Barrasso, as reported by the Casper ...
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Health Experts Strive To Treat A Traveling Forest Community
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA - 29 Jun 2008
They are a mysterious, almost mythical group, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, gathering again this summer to party and pray for peace, many appearing ...
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Rainbow Family gathering in Wyoming
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA - 30 Jun 2008
SUBLETTE COUNTY, WY – Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming is where the Rainbow Family is gathering this year. The Rainbow Family is a loosely knit ...
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wyoming briefs
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 1 July 2008
Blust said the presence of about 3500 people from the Rainbow Family gathering near the Big Sandy Ranch area was "complicating" the search for Bardin. ...
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Special court set up for Rainbow Gathering
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 2 July 2008
... A special federal court has been set up in the Farson Fire Hall to handle minor cases arising from the Rainbow Family gathering in southwest Wyoming. ...
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Rainbow connection
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 2 July 2008
Dan Budd, a longtime Sublette County rancher and former legislator, remembers the last time the Rainbow Family held its annual gathering in Wyoming in 1994. ...
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Them on Us: Shane revisited; Meet the Press
Planet Jackson Hole - WY,USA - 2 July 2008
The Rainbow Family’s gathering in Sublette County’s Big Sandy recreational area has shown up in the Denver television market (CBS9). ...
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'Om'-ing in Wyoming
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 3 July 2008
"When I come back from the Rainbow (gathering), I drink water and eat healthy. ... I take better care of myself and my family and my relationships," he said ...
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Local reaction mixed on Rainbow Gathering
Pinedale Roundup - Pinedale,WY,USA - 3 July 2008
And according to Karin Zirk’s Wyoming Rainbow Gathering blog, the size of the group currently at the Dutch Joe Guard Station is smaller than what they had ...
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Barrasso and Cubin criticize USDA management of Rainbow gathering
Little Chicago Review - Chicago,IL,USA - 3 July 2008
Senator Barrasso slammed the US Department of Agriculture, calling the Forest Service’s management of this year’s Rainbow Family gathering totally ...
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KTAK - Riverton,WY,USA - 4 July 2008
(AP) - The Rainbow Family has arrived in southwest Wyoming though not nearly in the numbers folks expected. The weeklong "Rainbow Gathering of Living Light" ...
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News Minute: Here is the latest Wyoming news from The Associated Press
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA - 4 July 2008
A sheriff's spokesman says the younger Bardin may be hiding out in the Rainbow Family gathering that's taking place nearby. CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming ...
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Rainbow gathering inspires odd jurisprudence
Billings Gazette - MT, USA - 5 July 2008
Farson was chosen because it is close to the gathering and because it imposed the least inconvenience to law enforcement and the Rainbow gathering ...
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Mythos lingers longer than event
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 5 July 2008
BULL, who said that the Rainbows were going to "take up permanent residence" here in Wyoming? Hey Sage, have you ever attended a Rainbow gathering? ...
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Celebrating the 4th...Shooting aftermath...Wyoming confrontation
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck - Bismarck,ND,USA - 5 July 2008
... Rainbow Family are under arrest in Big Sandy, Wyoming, after a confrontation with US Forest Service officers at the group's national gathering. ...
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Wyoming briefs
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 5 July 2008
CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Department says there have been instances of a parasite-caused skin disorder in the area outside ...
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Hippie Arrests Draw ACLU’s Attention
New York Times - United States
As many as 7000 members of the Rainbow Family camped out this year on Forest Service land. Linda Burt, executive director of the ACLU’s Wyoming affiliate, ...
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ACLU plans to investigate Rainbow Family treatment
The Associated Press -
... it plans to investigate the actions of federal law enforcers who arrested five Rainbow Family members in western Wyoming during their annual gathering. ...
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Forest Service says Wyoming Rainbow gathering confrontation could ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA - 8 July 2008
A US Forest Service official says the agency must consider banning the Rainbow Family from its land after a confrontation led to the arrest of at least ...
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Small fire erupts near Rainbows
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 9 July 2008
... of a planned project, throw rocks at Forest Service Officials and now totally raise the bar for next year's Rainbow Gathering by getting a fire rolling. ...
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Wyoming briefs
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 10 July 2008
Investigators believe Bardin died at least four to five days before his body's discovery and that he might have participated in the Rainbow gathering. ...
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More fires flare near Big Sandy
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA - 11 July 2008
Bill Crapser, Wyoming's state forester, said the blazes around the Rainbow gathering haven't been the only wildland flare-ups this fire season, ...
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Setting the record straight
Black Hills Pioneer - Spearfish,SD,USA - 14 July 2008
The Rapid City Journal covered a story regarding the recent rainbow gathering and the facts may have been misunderstood. I would like to present a different ...
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Freeloaders shirk responsibility first
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA - 14 July 2008
This is the Rainbow Family in action. Based upon my observations I cannot understand how attending a Rainbow Family gathering could provide a lifetime ...
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This Week in the News&Guide
Jackson Hole News - Jackson,WY,USA  -  16 July 2008
Following a conflict with Forest Service law enforcement at the annual Rainbow Family Gathering near Big Sandy two weeks ago, a Rainbow Faimly member and a ...
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Getting a Grip
Artvoice - Buffalo,NY,USA  -  17 July 2008
Nowhere does the AP/Buffalo News article mention that the Rainbow event has convened annually for 38 years as a multidenominational gathering to pray for ...
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Respect keeps officers courteous
Casper Star-Tribune Online - Casper,WY,USA  -  20 July 2008
This letter is in response to the ACLU investigating the rainbow family. When you camp on public lands in Wyoming, the law enforcement officers have the ...
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Rainbows, not Drainbows
Grand Junction Free Press - Grand Junction,Colorado,USA  -  29 July 2008
I saw a lot of disrespect for Forest Service and law enforcement, but I saw respect and welcoming by a lot more Rainbow Gathering brothers and sisters and ...
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Wyoming officials not happy with Rainbow Family cleanup after ...
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA  -  1 August 2008
Rainbow Family participants are still picking up after this summer’s gathering in the Cowboy State, but a local US Forest Service official said the crew’s ...
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1000 repair project volunteers relocated by feds when Rainbow ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA  -  2 August 2008
... after the Rainbow gathering, said they were re-evaluating their procedures and may have to ban meetings such as the arrest-marred gathering in Wyoming ...
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Feds: LSD was traded at Rainbow gathering
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA  -  22 August 2008
A confidential source told Colorado investigators last month that a North Carolina man at the Rainbow Family gathering in Wyoming claimed to be distributing ...
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Feds: LSD was traded at Rainbow gathering
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA  -  22 August 2008
Authorities say the man distributed the drug at the Rainbow Family gathering in western Wyoming last month.
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New 'etown' home has diverse spiritual past
Daily Camera - CO,USA  -  24 August 2008
Its first summer at the location, the Salvation Army was overwhelmed with members of the Rainbow Gathering taking advantage of its free lunch distribution. ...
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ACLU blasts Forest Service over Rainbow gathering
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA  -  3 October 2008
Linda Burt, executive director of the ACLU in Wyoming, said her office interviewed about 60 Rainbow Family members who attended this year's gathering and ...
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ACLU blasts Forest Service over Rainbow gathering
KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA  -  3 October 2008
... after a clash this summer between Rainbow Family members and Forest Service officers at the group's annual gathering held in western Wyoming. ...
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ACLU blasts Forest Service over Rainbow gathering
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA  -  7 October 2008
He estimated that it cost the Forest Service $1 million to patrol the Rainbow gathering in Wyoming this year. He said the group didn't share in the costs. ...
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Them on Us: Wild West horses; talk show golf; sad Rainbows
Planet Jackson Hole - WY,USA  -  7 October 2008
The Wyoming chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union contends the US Forest Service systematically harasses members of the Rainbow Family when they ...
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Report Says Forest Service Has Harassed Rainbow Gatherings
Infoshop News - USA  -  11 October 2008
About 7000 members of the group attended its annual gathering this summer, held in the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Big Sandy in western Wyoming.
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