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NATIONAL NEWS
What the Baucus-Crapo Bill Does - Turning Back the Clock to the Good Old Days, New West
The Phonies in the Woods, Campaign for America's Future
Forest Service in financial bind - Congress must pump up Forest Service funding, Helena Independent Record
Forest's Future- Gifford Pinchot NF Recreation Facilities Plan: Fees would be initiated at 11 campgrounds or trailheads and increased at six others, Columbian
Forests deal with tight budgets - Bridger-Teton NF will spend more on fires, rely more on public-private partnerships for recreation and infrastructure, Jackson Hole News&Guide
Federal rangers say ORV abuse is out of control, GOAT - High Country News blog
Unhealthy Forests Initiative, The Hartford Courant

New model revises estimates of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Groups Protest World Bank Launch of Forest Carbon Partnership - Say Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Threatens Forests and Indigenous Peoples, Global Justice Ecology Project
World Bank-Hands off Forests, Friends of the Earth International

Cash Starved Forest Service Spends $600,000 To Buy Tasers - Devices Remain in Boxes Because Rangers Lack Training, PEER
Nixon-Era Law Has Slowed Bush Administration's Environmental Changes: National Environmental Policy Act, OPB News
Environmental idiocy comes out of Court of Appeals, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza editorial
U.S. should appeal Healthy Forest ruling, Longview Daily News editorial
Fire Management Challenged In Federal Court - Group Wants National Forest Fire Management Plans to Allow More Fire, Forest Guardians
O Tannenbaum, Financial Times

Auctioning Off Nevada, New York Times editorial
Enviros and Dems Responsible for Public Land Privatization - Nevada Learns to Cash In on Sales of Federal Land, Wild Wilderness
USFS Conservation Plan Announced, San Francisco Chronicle

Forests a key issue at warming talks - Tropical nations hope Bali meeting can lead to incentives for retaining trees, Washington Post
New report on deforestation reveals problems of forest carbon payment schemes, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
REDD will fail if needs of forest communities aren't addressed - New report argues that unless REDD mechanisms are properly designed, carbon credits-for-forest conservation schemes will not address key drivers of deforestation, Mongabay News

Climate change predicted to drive trees northward - Ranges may decrease sharply if trees cannot disperse in altered conditions, American Institute of Biological Sciences
NEPA: Environmental Magna Carta under siege - In an attempt to curtail environmental assessments for oil exploration, timber extraction, and grazing on public lands, the Bush Administration is sidestepping one of the nation's first environmental laws, Environmental Science & Technology
Is the West Losing Its Wild?, Condé Nast Traveler
Engineers hope to fight wildfires by dropping huge water balloons - Method is ready to be tested on real fire, Austin American-Statesman
Beetle Warfare, High Country News
The trouble with hybrids, Globe and Mail
WORLD NEWS
Land-use pact halts 'juggernaut' of big logging on the Charlottes - Agreement resolves much conflict with B.C. government, Haida leader says, Vancouver Sun
Amazon balancing act: farm growth vs. forests - Rules ensure biofuels do more good than harm, St. Petersburg Times


Mexican authorities raid illicit sawmills near a threatened nature reserve where Monarch butterflies nest in the winter, arresting 56 people and confiscating enough illegally logged wood to fill 600 heavy trucks, Los Angeles Times

Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed In Toronto, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Job losses soar in forest sector, Prince George Citizen

World Bank admits Congo omissions, www.illegal-logging.info

China relaxing its control over the forestry sector - Public sector has growing role in China's forest management, Mongabay News

Ontario: Province pressed to cut logging - Environmentalists angry over MNR's wavering on banning or curbing Algonquin Park operations, Toronto Star
Log exports fine, if you're a First Nation - Treaty will let Maa-nulth take control of Island timber resources, Times Colonist

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest? - While deforestation and climate change threaten to accelerate the loss of Amazon rainforest, a bold initiative could fund conservation, Mongabay News

Lost In The Woods - The Indian demand for cheap tropical timber is not just an issue affecting India's dwindling forests; it is also devastating its Asian neighbours, Tehelka Magazine

Logging damage revealed by secret filming - Secret filming by villagers has revealed the damage being caused to the Indonesian rainforests by uncontrolled logging and palm oil plantations, UK Telegraph
Court Fiasco As Fugitive Timber Boss Evades Jail - The latest illegal logging court case shambles reveals the need for urgent forest law reform in Indonesia, EIA
Carbon credits for forest conservation concept faces challenges - But initiative could save forests and alleviate rural poverty: An interview with Indonesian forest expert Ketut Deddy, Mongabay News
CONGRESS & WASHINGTON
Despite extension, timber payments coming to an end - The U.S. House passed an extension of the payments which could be vetoed. Even if it survives, the payments will be phased out, Clackamas Review


Sali's bill aims to protect communities from wildfire - The proposal would exempt some fuel-reduction projects from lengthy environmental review, Lewiston Tribune at Idaho Statesman
NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho

Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership, Montana Trout Unlimited at MTPR
Ad had it wrong, Ravalli Republic
Pryors should have balanced management, Billings Gazette letter
Gallatin winter-use maps released, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Sharing the Woods, Hellgate Hunters and Anglers at MTPR

Big Sky Coalition promotes legislation, education to boost logging: 'Environmentalists' with common sense, Clark Fork Chronicle
General aviation is under attack, Helena Independent Record op-ed
Pryor coalition seeks balance of uses, Billings Gazette letter
No camping lock out on Lewis and Clark NF, Great Falls Tribune letter
SOUTHWESTERN REGION (Region 3):
Arizona and New Mexico
Team Narrows Down Ojo Peak Fire Origin, Mountain View Telegraph
County Planning & Zoning says no to J-Six development - Development would gate access road to Coronado NF Whetstone Mountains, Herald/Review

Fire Management Challenged In Federal Court - Group Wants National Forest Fire Management Plans to Allow More Fire, Forest Guardians
Scientists Call For Improved Scientific Fire Management - A dozen scientists from Arizona and New Mexico suggest changing conditions affect fire plans, Forest Guardians
Blaze Drives Home Sandia Ranger Fears, Mountain View Telegraph
Investigation Into Fire's Cause Stalls, Mountain View Telegraph


Beetle Warfare, High Country News
Tribes asked to pray for Peaks, Gallup Independent
INTERMOUNTAIN REGION (Region 4):
Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and SW Wyoming
Forests deal with tight budgets - Bridger-Teton NF will spend more on fires, rely more on public-private partnerships for recreation and infrastructure, Jackson Hole News&Guide

Auctioning Off Nevada, New York Times editorial
Program trades phone books for trees - For every ton of phone books recycled, AT&T Real Yellow Pages will donate 17 trees as a symbol of the number of trees saved through recycling, Reno Gazette-Journal

Sali's bill aims to protect communities from wildfire - The proposal would exempt some fuel-reduction projects from lengthy environmental review, Lewiston Tribune at Idaho Statesman
Agency for trust lands may get input - New committee would provide guidelines on 'sensitive' properties, Deseret Morning News
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST (Region 5): California
Sudden oak death roars back, Marin Independent Journal
Forest Service logging rule gets overturned - Cox calls 9th Circuit ruling a setback, Sierra Sun

Environmental idiocy comes out of Court of Appeals, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza editorial
The Fire Next Time - How Wildfire Preparedness Is Turning California Into Arizona, Slate

Tree-cutting rules eased at Tahoe, Reno Gazette Journal
PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Region 6):
Oregon and Washington
Forest's Future- Gifford Pinchot NF Recreation Facilities Plan: Fees would be initiated at 11 campgrounds or trailheads and increased at six others, Columbian
Despite extension, timber payments coming to an end - The U.S. House passed an extension of the payments which could be vetoed. Even if it survives, the payments will be phased out, Clackamas Review
Damage goes deep in forests - Storm winds in coastal counties knocked down thousands of acres of timber, Oregonian

Project unites rival forest views - A conservationist, a logger and a Forest Service manager work together, Oregonian
Trees happen, Oregonian editorial

Counties need Pelosi's help - In her Portland visit today, the House speaker should be urged to support renewal of federal payments to rural counties, Oregonian
ATV use may be cut in national forest - Eastern Oregon - Off-road fans are angry about a plan to close 4,200 miles of roads that officials say need protection, Oregonian
A grinch with a saw steals tree, Corvallis Gazette-Times
Christmas trees get a little 'greener' - Several Oregon growers create a system of tagging trees that meet environmental standards, Oregonian
Snow closes Marys Peak road for good, Corvallis Gazette-Times
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Forest Service protests Va. coal plant - Says vegetation in Pisgah NF could be in jeopardy, Morganton News Herald

Group fighting to save Love Cemetery in East Texas - Logging company blocks access, Dallas Morning News
Scientists gather to share ideas, Asheville Citizen-Times
Acres of pristine forest saved, Daily Times - Salisbury, Md.

Internationally recognized ecology lab shrinks its operations: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Environmental Science & Technology
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Who owns the forest? It's no small matter - The fragmentation of the North Woods has an impact just as clear-cutting and fires do, Star Tribune
Unhealthy Forests Initiative, The Hartford Courant

Coal fires burn in Wayne National Forest: Beverly company hired to help combat problem, The Marietta Times


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