Streamlining of Forest Plans Draws Criticism: Critics Say Cutting Decision Time Leaves Impacts Unstudied
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 14--The public will have less say over how North Carolina's 1.2 million-acre national forests are managed, environmentalists charge, after a rule change the U.S. Forest Service completed this week.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By Griscom, Bronson W Daly, Douglas C; Ashton, Mark S  GRISCOM, B. W. (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511), D. C. DALY (The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458), AND M. S.
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Bob Briggsâ wifeâs family has owned about 1,000 acres of redwood forest off Waddell Creek since 1913. He doesnât clearcut, and logs about once a decade.
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By ASHLEY KINDERGAN, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD  If state funds for environmental preservation are allowed to dry up next year, the burden of creating and maintaining green space will fall to counties and municipalities, local officials said.
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By JEREMY HAINSWORTH  VANCOUVER (CP) - A report from a consortium of B.C. forestry-related organizations says the response to the pine beetle that has ravaged the province's forests has been overkill.
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The overhaul of the guidelines will make it easier for forest managers to decide whether to allow logging, drilling or off-road vehicles.
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By Bridget Scrimenti, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 22--LITTLETON -- Prouty Woods will cut fewer trees, after residents expressed concern to preserve public trails. The cuts referred to as patch cuts, would have cut away trees close to the trails, which run through the woods.
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As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks.
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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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When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States.
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Managers of the nation&#39;s 155 national forests will have more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy
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Dead and dying trees essential for many other forms of forest life are in short supply, conservationists say.
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A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
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Wisconsin's annual battle against a leaf-eating insect got some help from this spring's nasty weather, which resulted in a huge decline in tree defoliation, a state forestry expert said Monday.
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By Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 13--Change comes slowly to the mountains, whether it's the thousands of years it took rivers to carve the breathtaking valleys and gorges or the decades it's taking to change the way people think about their stewardship of the land.
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The idea of destroying a  swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to  clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's  worst nightmare.