Bush Administration Challenged Over Abandonment of Wildlife Protections, Earthjustice

Lawsuit Filed Over Fees On Mt. Evans Road, CBS4 Denver

Arapaho NF: Legal challenge to Mount Evans fees launched, Denver Post

U.S. Forest Service sued over $5 Mt. Lemmon fee, Tucson Citizen

Suit filed over Mt. Lemmon Highway fee, Arizona Republic AP

Class Action Suits To Be Files in Arizona, Colorado - Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court, New West Network

Fee increases rile Lake Wenatchee cabin owners - Forest Service asked to hold off on raising costs of annual permits, Wenatchee World

Forest Service budget has some bugs to work out, Summit Daily News

Information Collection; Qualified Products List for "Water Enhancers" for use as fire retardant, Federal Register

Merge, Remake the Forest Service - A Tectonic Fix Long Overdue, New West Network

Road agreement language comes back to haunt land managers - Timber-hauling easements amended to allow residential development, without any public input, Missoulian

$1 billion timber slush fund or fair trade deal? - Lawsuit, U.S. senators want details on Bush administration deal, Post Intelligencer

Forest Voice: Spring 2008, Native Forest Council [pdf]

GAO says no to forest snacks, Anchorage Daily News

Tallying the environmental cost: Allegheny National Forest, Scranton Times Tribune

Conservation Easements: The Need for Closer Scrutiny, New West Network

Timber! Sen Baucus wants to cut timber industry's taxes, Wall Street Journal

4th Timberland Investing World Summit - Alternative Investments, Sustainable Returns and Emerging Markets: San Francisco, CA June 9th-11th, FinanceQ - IQPC [pdf]

"It's Woodchips Stupid," Not Corn, for Ethanol Production to Produce 15 Billion Gallons, Green Energy Resources

American Woodchips Begin Test Trials for Power Generation in Germany, Green Energy Resources

Enviros and hook-n-bullet set form unlikely alliance, San Francisco Chronicle

Cities so busy planting they can't see the forest for the trees - Tree-planting takes root, Washington Post

Deforestation: single largest source of land- use greenhouse gas emissions, Prudent Press Agency

Boy Scouts of America Plans Largest National Service Project Since World War II, PR Newswire

Call of the Trees, website

Treehuggers Against Trees, Townhall

Native chief claims B.C. government is in conflict of interest, Vancouver Province

Pope & Talbot cash crisis leaves logging communities and industry reeling - Historic west coast lumber company heads for receivership as Asian sale falls through, Vancouver Sun

Western shuts down logging operations - Curtailments on Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island due to plummeting demand, Powell River Peak

Shutdowns, layoffs hit largest West Coast forest company - Western Forest Products closes most of its logging operations as demand drops, Vancouver Sun

Bad news just getting worse, Nanaimo Daily News

Nova Scotia: Forestry practices cut down - Research group report: Stop clearcutting, protect environment, Chronicle Herald

Nova Scotia's forests in peril — report - Recent changes not enough to counteract over-harvesting, clear cutting, Canadian Press

Healthy response to forestry workshops, Chronicle Herald

Sector faces uncertain times - The union representing 30,000 workers meets the premier and forests minister, Canwest News

Who Will Revive BC's Forests? - World relies on our 'lungs,' but replanting is lowest in 20 years, TheTyee

Little bug, big issue - Stop clearcutting beetle-killed forests, Brantford Expositor

Disease cutting down trees; Drought, poor soil and a lack of attention are killing local evergreens, The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

Climate change and forest fires, The Sault Star - Ontario, CA

Sacred balance, Daily Gleaner

Setting the real bottom line: The challenge of the 21st century, Science Alert

$1 billion timber slush fund or fair trade deal? - Lawsuit, U.S. senators want details on Bush administration deal, Post Intelligencer

Paso Pacifico Awarded Gold Rating for Innovative Reforestation Project in Nicaragua, Rainforest Alliance

On the edge of destruction - A Texan rancher's radical idea is helping to halt the devastation of the Amazon's souuthern and eastern rim, Financial Times

Logging: Whistleblowing farmer killed in Brazil, KC Star AP

Galapagos: Alien Species Plague the Land That Time Forgot, IPS News

Who decides the fate of the Amazon?, BBC News

Portugal Tackles New Outbreak Of Tree-Killing Pest, Reuters

Palm Oil Protests Target Unilever Sites, Reuters

Green giants: Our love affair with trees, The Independent

Spreading trees: Britain's leafiest regions - and the best woods to visit, The Independent

Norway to assist Tanzania in forest and climate program, The Norway Post

Norway Gives Tanzania $100 Mln For Forests, Reuters

Madagascar: Despite Odds, Country Saves More Trees, UN IRIN

Mali: The land of sacred tree - In the heart of Mandinka territory in western Mali, people believe that cutting down a tree is a sacrilege. And yet, over a two-month period, a Chinese company lumbered 243 tonnes of wood, France 24

Malaysia, Indonesia agree to counter anti-palm oil propaganda , Bernama

Forestry officials ignoring PNG law, The Australian

Asia's Rainforests Vanishing As Timber, Food Demand Surge: Experts, Exchange magazine

Mangrove loss 'left Burma exposed', BBC News

Destruction of Mangrove Forests Increased Devastating Impact of Cyclone Nagris, Mangrove Action Project

Vietnam manages forests to deflect climate change, Nhan Dan

Illegal logging resumes in Aurora, says group, Philippine Inquirer

Legal logging decimates forests - group, Sun.Star Davao

Smoke Lifts Momentarily at the Forest Practices Authority - But Forest Destruction Code Review Not The Answer, Tasmanian Greens

Timber! Sen Baucus wants to cut timber industry's taxes, Wall Street Journal

$1 billion timber slush fund or fair trade deal? - Lawsuit, U.S. senators want details on Bush administration deal, Post Intelligencer

Road agreement language comes back to haunt land managers - Plum Creek- Timber-hauling easements amended to allow residential development, without any public input, Missoulian

Timber! Sen Baucus wants to cut timber industry's taxes, Wall Street Journal

Helena NF: Officials announce $37 million settlement to remove Mike Horse Dam, Missoulian

Lawmakers to bring fire suppression debate to Hamilton, Missoulian

Sen. Laible reduces MT fire committee to a cronyistic dog and pony show, Missoula Independent

Montana Wilderness Association celebrates golden anniversary, Great Falls Tribune

County asks man to restore land after cottonwood trees were cut down in a conservation easement, Missoulian

Rey says authority over real estate development is limited, KULR News

Rey to face queries on Plum Creek talks, Missoulian

USFS head discusses Plum Creek talks in Missoula, KPAX News

Grazing deal a tiny step toward effective bison management, Yellowstone Insider

Why buffalo and why not the CUT deal? Against utilitarianism, New West Network

Lawsuit Filed Over Fees On Mt. Evans Road, CBS4 Denver

Arapaho NF: Legal challenge to Mount Evans fees launched, Denver Post

Forest Service budget has some bugs to work out, Summit Daily News

Class Action Suits To Be Files in Arizona, Colorado - Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court, New West Network

Roosevelt NF: End grazing rights, Coloradoan letter

BLM defers leases in Rio Grande National Forest, HCN blog

Activists fight federal plan on mine methane, Denver Post

Lynx Habitat Threatened by Oil and Gas Development - BLM Moves to Open Rio Grande National Forest to Drilling, Center for Native Ecosystems

Deep snow refreshing parched West, Vail Daily - News

Fed plan brings electric shock, Telluride Daily Planet

U.S. Forest Service sued over $5 Mt. Lemmon fee, Tucson Citizen

Suit filed over Mt. Lemmon Highway fee, Arizona Republic AP

Class Action Suits To Be Files in Arizona, Colorado - Public Land Owners Taking RAT, Forest Service to Civil Court, New West Network

Prescott NF: McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer, Washington Post

Prescott NF: Massive thinning proposed for Black Hills area, Verde News

Cibola County Opposes Mount Taylor Cultural Listing, Albuquerque Journal

SF Forest Limits Target Shooting, Albuquerque Journal

Santa Fe NF: Watershed group wants state to run Pecos Canyon park, New Mexican

Forest Service Rejects Buckman Project Challenge, Albuquerque Journal

Trigo Fire in Manzano Mountains Burns Additional 50 Homes, Alamogordo Daily News 5-3

Cibola NF: Trigo Fire Burns 15,000 Acres , Albuquerque Journal 5-2

NM fire burns more homes in Manzano Mountains, New Mexican 5-2

Trigo Fire Jumps Containment Line, Albuquerque Journal 4-30

Fire Crews Mop Up Manzano Mountains Trigo Fire, Albuquerque Journal 4-26

Environmental groups assail Arizona Strip plan, Arizona Republic

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest - U.S. turning 2 forests in Utah into 1, Deseret News

A. Carlisle receives forest council certification, Reno Gazette-Journal

Gillett tapped for San Bernardino National Forest post,San Bernardino County Sun

Off-roaders lose 1,000 miles of trail in new Eldorado forest plan, McClatchy News

Deal struck by Palco, Mendocino Redwood, Eureka Times-Standard

Save the old-growth redwoods, Petaluma Argus-Courier

Los Padres NF: California protestin’, HCN letter

Clearcutting the Climate or Carbon Sequestration - What's our Future?, Sierra Nevada Alliance

Fee increases rile Lake Wenatchee cabin owners - Forest Service asked to hold off on raising costs of annual permits, Wenatchee World

Plea agreement reached in Thirtymile Fire deaths - Former fire boss pleads guilty to lesser charges; felony counts dropped, Post Intelligencer

Wyden pushes for quick OK on logging - Salvage - Timber firms and environmentalists work out an agreement for two counties hit by fires, The Oregonian

U.S. judge stops logging project in Olympic National Forest, Post-Intelligencer

Owners of cabins on Forest Service land may see increases in cost next year, The Wenatchee World

New Gifford Pinchot Plan Calls for Thinning, Fewer Roads, Centralia Chronicle

A better forest, Columbian editorial

Blowdown not a fire danger, The Daily World

Wild Sky: Preserving a future, Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial

Hikers fear plan to log Blanchard Mountain, Post Intelligencer

Siskiyou monument - Senate committee approves buyout of cattle ranchers - Ranchers would be paid to keep their cattle off 24,000 acres, The Oregonian

Bill would end grazing rights on Siskiyou monument in Oregon, Daly AP

The flap over spotted owls, High Country News blog

To save the old growth trees, you need to get involved, Eugene Register-Guard

Firm logs, but does it 'greenly' - Out of the Woods handles the smaller stuff, helping to heal woodlots as it goes, Mail Tribune

Oregon uses traps and sprays to fight off Gypsy Moth, Oregonian

$1 billion timber slush fund or fair trade deal? - Lawsuit, U.S. senators want details on Bush administration deal, Post Intelligencer

Obama says permanent solution needed for county payments, Register-Guard

Candidates: Listen up on timber payments - Those federal checks to Oregon counties are not pork, The Oregonian

Here’s a bad idea: Gas from trees, Eugene Register-Guard op-ed

Horse Lake addition first in years, The Wenatchee World

Portland-based timber company liquidated, The Oregonian

Forests vital to water quality, Register-Guard letter

Only one line at the bottom , Register-Guard op-ed

Setting the real bottom line: The challenge of the 21st century, Science Alert

Have we 'paved paradise'?: Clearcut forests, Hattiesburg American

Big beauties stand test of time - Texas Forest Service recognizes 'truly remarkable trees' in Tarrant, Star-Telegram

Florida To Subsidize European Raid on Florida Forests, Alachua Post

Forestry Friday, Florida Forestry Association

Mark Twain National Forest: Stop Logging in the Proposed Smith Creek Wilderness: Comments Due May 16, American Lands Alliance

Tallying the environmental cost: Allegheny National Forest, Scranton Times Tribune

NFC to Green Mountain Nat'l Forest: Put Down the Chainsaw and Step Away from the Trees, Native Forest Council: News

Bat attack: legal 'bat'tle brewing - Mysterious affliction killing bats in other states; is Pennsylvania next?, The River Reporter

Editor makes wild charges without getting the facts, Timberjay News editorial

Sixty citations issued in Wayne Forest, Athens Messenger

Illinois: IEPA lends forest service a helping hand, The Southern

Bugged by beetles: Officials express concern over pest blamed for killing millions of trees in Midwest, Allegheny Times

Woodchips for Energy; Green Energy Resources Targets 15% Market Share of Growing Northeast US Biomass Markets and Looks to Develop a Green BioEnergy Port in New York City Area, Market Wire

"It's Woodchips Stupid," Not Corn, for Ethanol Production to Produce 15 Billion Gallons, Green Energy Resources

American Woodchips Begin Test Trials for Power Generation in Germany, Green Energy Resources

Chugach NF: GAO says no to forest snacks, Anchorage Daily News

GAO says no to forest snacks, Fort Mill Times

Lean Times, Juneau Empire