Forest Service Aims to Close Child 'Nature-Deficit'
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By Matthew Daly  WASHINGTON - Students from New York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands as part of an effort by the U.S. Forest Service to get kids out of the classroom and into the woods.
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A woman has been indicted on charges saying she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on environmentally sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said. Officials said they were not aware of any similar federal prosecutions. The woman, Patricia M. Vincent, 58, was indicted last week on charges of theft of government property and willingly damaging government property. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. The three ponderosa pines stood on a plot the Forest Service had designated as environmentally sensitive as part of a water quality plan. The trees were estimated to be 80 to 100 years old.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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By Blair Goldstein, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Sep. 6--Ted Harris said his dream is to preserve patches of forestland  across the state.   A recent grant awarded to the 500-Year Forest Foundation marks one of the  first steps to his long-term vision.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Bush administration Tuesday proposed cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl, reopening the 1990s battle between timber production and wildlife habitat on public lands.
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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By Fred Hiers, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  May 30--OCALA -- Every few days, the Ocala National Forest is marred.  Piles of trash, abandoned boats and cars, leaking batteries and worn out tires  are illegally dumped, scarring the landscape like cancerous tumors.
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With all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, there could be one beneficiary: the environment.
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Clearing tropical forests to grow crops leads to a downward spiral in nutrients within the soil, a study suggests.
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Millions of acres of the country's largest national forest would be open for logging and other development under a Bush administration forest management plan released yesterday, a move critics said will hurt wildlife and destroy pristine lands.
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A five-year study of South Carolina pine forests offers proof of the widely practiced but controversial theory that corridors linking nature reserves help species diversity.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued comprehensive new rules for managing the national forests, jettisoning some environmental protections that date to Ronald Reagan&#39;s administration and putting in place the biggest change in forest-use policies in
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The prime minister pledged Sunday that thousands of acres of forests destroyed by wildfires across Greece in recent days would be replanted, including sections in a national park.Since Wednesday, fires have destroyed more than 15,000 acres of forests left tinder-dry by a weeklong heat wave. The fires have been blamed for several deaths, including that of a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter. Arsonists seeking to clear land for development are suspected in some blazes.'I stress most emphatically that all burnt forests are automatically scheduled for reforestation,' Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said. 'Wherever forests stood, there will be forests once again.' Read more
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The Bush administration issued a new rule Wednesday streamlining the planning process for the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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ROME -- The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a UN agency said yesterday.
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By Emma D. Sapong  Some Clarence High School students have proved the reforestation of Western New York is no small undertaking.
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 10--Last year's failed plan by the Bush administration to sell more  than 7,000 acres of national forest land in Georgia and Tennessee is back --  penciled into the president's proposed 2008 budget.   Under the plan, the U.S.