Forests in the News©
NATIONAL NEWS
Cows vs. RATs, High Country News
Forest wars finally end? - Ag secretary's visit showcases alliance between environmentalists, timber companies, The Payson Roundup
Logging Lightly, Independent Record
Bark beetles rocked by sound, Arizona Daily Sun
Biomass Markets - Friend or Foe: How Will New Biomass Subsidies Impact the Market? - Industry experts discuss the impact of new biomass subsidies and the emergence of wood energy markets on low grade lumber and the pulpwood industries, Pallet Enterprise

Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt - Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found, New York Times
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast - International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, Scientific American
Chewed Out - An invasive plant called tamarisk has been killing off cottonwoods and destroying river habitat for decades. Now park rangers are hoping a beetle can turn the tide, NPCA
WORLD NEWS
What is behind the term "Planted Forests", World Rainforest Movement

Mau evictions to resume, Capital FM Kenya
Gunns 20 in the dust, The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania
CONGRESS & WASHINGTON D.C.
Obama's 2011 Budget Trims Environment, Fattens Energy Spending - "We're also cutting a Forest Service economic development program that strayed so far from any mission that it funded a music festival," Obama said, Environment News Service
AMA Urges OHV Action Against Obama Budget, American Motorcyclist Association
NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho
Tester revising forest bill, Independent Record AP
Forest bill: Unrealistic goals?, Inter Lake editorial
Rehberg's trigger proposal would kill forest bill - Rehberg's forest bill solution is not a workable option, Missoulian letter
Rehberg wants wilderness 'phase-in' - Plan addresses concerns that logging would be delayed in current Tester bill, Daily Inter Lake
Seasonal Forest Service jobs available, The Clark Fork Chronicle
Logging Lightly, Independent Record

Former Blixseth Land: Private Mountain Ranch Could Become Public Again - A new deal could return prized private land west of Kalispell back into public hands, Flathead Beacon
Thanks for ski-trail grooming, Independent Record letter
Don't fence me in, Great Falls Tribune letter
Successes, challenges discussed at annual Mining District meeting - The U.S. Forest Service this year hopes to wrap up a decade-long project aimed at restoring a 25,000-acre mining district bordering Yellowstone National Park, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
SOUTHWESTERN REGION (Region 3):
Arizona and New Mexico
Forest wars finally end? - Ag secretary's visit showcases alliance between environmentalists, timber companies, The Payson Roundup
Time to end forest wars, The Payson Roundup editorial
Bark beetles rocked by sound, Arizona Daily Sun
Burns, Adams step over line with letter - Maricopa lawmakers' message supporting Rosemont mine was presumptuous, Arizona Daily Star editorial
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast - International Paper and MeadWestvaco are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, Scientific American
Right end for 'Road to Nowhere', Times News editorial
Ocala National Forest: Beneath springs, an ancient world - Construction project uncovers mother lode of relics, Orlando Sentinel
EASTERN REGION (Region 9):
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin
Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt - Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found, New York Times

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