NATIONAL NEWS
Black gold - An abundant black walnut harvest promises sweet treats and pocket money in Southwest Virginia,
The Roanoke Times
The salvage debate - Logging vs. regeneration after disastrous fires plays out in bills before congress,
Mail Tribune
CONGRESS & WASHINGTON
Endangering the Act - Environmentalists say a little-noted rule change could weaken the United States' strongest environmental law,
Mother Jones
The salvage debate - Logging vs. regeneration after disastrous fires plays out in bills before congress,
Mail Tribune
Now the fight is over dead trees - Two Northwest congressmen offer a salvage and reforestation plan to overhaul a policy that wastes time, money and wood,
Oregonian editorial
NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho
A Roadless Exercise In Futility - Like so many empty exercises in that irony-free zone known as American politics, the great roadless-area states-rights parade is proceeding apace toward no conceivable useful end.,
Helena Independent Record editorial
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION (Region 2):
Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
Forests change limits for ATVs - By 2008 all of the national forests in California are supposed to finish vehicle-use maps,
Tri-Valley Herald - McClatchy News
PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Region 6):
Oregon and Washington
Now the fight is over dead trees - Two Northwest congressmen offer a salvage and reforestation plan to overhaul a policy that wastes time, money and wood,
Oregonian editorial
Lands could reopen to logging - A deal between the Bush administration and the timber industry could lift protections for millions of Oregon acres,
Portland Oregonian
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Black gold - An abundant black walnut harvest promises sweet treats and pocket money in Southwest Virginia,
The Roanoke Times
