WORLD NEWS
Trees turning a new leaf - Benefit comes from sustained institutional investor interest in private timberlands as an attractive asset class,
Globe and Mail
Biotech grows in China -
By altering the structure of poplar tree cells, scientists at Guangzhao Industrial Forest Biotechnology Group have developed a salt-tolerant poplar variant,
International Herald Tribune
Police target forest angel - In a move lawyers call unusual and unprecedented, Tasmania Police is taking legal action to recover costs from a forest protester,
Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
The mangrove man - Abdoulaye Diame is on a crusade in his native Senegal to save a plant crucial to curbing floods, filtering seawater, and regulating tides,
CS Monitor
Why is Greece on fire? - Many of the fires have been set by arsonists, hoping to clear land for development,
CS Monitor
Questions raised on Greek forest fire management -
Greece's forests may have been left more vulnerable when in 1997 rural fire management was shifted from the forestry service to the urban-based Fire Service, with no forestry experience,
Reuters
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
Forestry from the ground up -
Wildfire, wildlife, soil, timber, people - managing our woodlands looks anything but simple from UC Berkeley's venerable classroom in the Sierra,
UC Berkeley News
Rock and a Hard Place - Independent gold miners fear extinction,as a new wave hits the hills,
North Coast Journal
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.