NATIONAL NEWS
Selling out on nature - With scant evidence that market-based conservation works, the time is ripe for returning to the protection of nature for nature's sake,
Nature journal [$]
Staining the Land Forever - The Bush administration has made a systematic effort to increase the private exploitation of federal lands,
New York Times at Times Herald-Record
Opposition Dooms Sale of Forest Land - Even groups that typically ally themselves with Bush criticized the plan to raise money for rural communities by selling protected land,
Los Angeles Times
WORLD NEWS
Kew spreads climate change word -
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has issued a "position paper" saying that man-made global warming is changing the outlook for plants and trees worldwide,
BBC News
Forestry row taken to the marginals - Environment groups are planning a high-profile pre-election battle to have logging banned in vast tracts of Victorian forest,
Sunday Herald Sun
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION (Region 2):
Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming
Inter-Laken: A last resort - Abandoned decades ago, the historic Dexter cottage is being restored by the USFS/partners, Denver Post
SOUTHWESTERN REGION (Region 3):
Arizona and New Mexico
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
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
Energy from the north woods? - A new biomass study looks at the harvest costs and environmental effects of removing "junk" trees to produce electricity and heat,
Duluth News Tribune
