Trees Cleared for Cash Cows
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  It's the better land use, Landcorp chief says of joint venture.
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By Dana M. Nichols, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Dec. 9--WHITE PINES -- The days when jeeps and dirt bikes can freely roam the Stanislaus National Forest are ending.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 9--ALTUS -- State agriculture officials helped collect more than 62,000 pounds of pesticides this week in an effort to get rid of old, unwanted chemicals.
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Trees and plants are to be cut down in woodland near Redruth in southwest England after the discovery of a new disease.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - Forest guards in western India  are using cell phones with ringtones of cows mooing, goats  bleating and roosters crowing to attract leopards that have  wandered into human settlements, officials said on Monday.
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By Ryan Schuster, The Bakersfield Californian  Sep. 18--Plenty of dust has been kicked up at the Kern County Fair's  livestock division in recent years -- and not all of it has come from the  animals.
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By Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 1--An agreement limiting the number of trees that can be cleared around natural-gas storage wells in the Mohican-Memorial State Forest has eased some opponents' fears.
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Plans to phase out the ban on cattle over 30 months old being sold as meat are announced.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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By Deb Gruver, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 24--The nine paper recycling bins at Wichita State University will save 17 trees, 6,953 gallons of water and 463 gallons of oil every month if people fill them.
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Some restrictions on moving animals imposed after the latest foot-and-mouth case are to be eased in Wales.
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CAETES, Brazil  - A woman emerges from the thick  scrub with a bundle of firewood on her back and walks down a  dirt path to her small farm in Caetes, a poor and remote  district in northeast Brazil.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 3--GAUTIER -- Sam Taylor said more than 1,000 dead trees have been removed from residential properties across Gautier, and at least 250 more could be removed by the end of June.
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Below, Bill Bell hauls tree branches out of Kay Bradford's Orem yard Thursday. Left, Amy Magleby and Dan Passmore put bark in flower beds. Landscaping at Bradford's home was one of several United Way Day of Caring projects.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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For decades, a flood of aid and an army of conservationists couldn't save Indonesia's rain forests from illegal loggers, land-hungry peasants and the spread of giant plantations. Now the world is looking at a simpler approach: up-front cash.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 4--An open-space fund that's supported by Ocean County property  taxpayers will lend Stafford nearly $2.4 million to fulfill its obligations  for preserving Pinelands forest.