Study: Salvage logging, replanting worse
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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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The US Forest Service, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, is shifting its focus from timber-cutting to recreation and ecological restoration
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By PEGGY ANDERSEN, Associated Press writer  SEATTLE  In the past quarter century, this Emerald City in the Evergreen State has lost nearly 1.7 million trees  roughly half the urban forest that shaded yards, parks and open spaces  to population growth, lax maintenance and view seekers.
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Illegal local government construction destroying China's forests   BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) has blasted local authorities and private companies for flaunting the law by chopping down forests to make way for new transport links.
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 13:  No one but the timber industry benefits if the U.S. Forest Service allows the continued degradation of the world's largest temperate rainforest _ the Tongass in southeast Alaska.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Feb. 19--Normally, when a wildfire blackens hundreds of acres of sensitive resources, biologists bemoan the damage the flames caused the environment.   Not Sally Krenn.   The Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, Dec. 17:  The Bush administration is trying again to stifle the public's say in decisions about logging and mining in the national forests.
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In what is a very long-term project, Chopwell Wood will be allowed to return to what it was before the days of Forestry Commission conifer-planting.   There will be a gradual thinning of conifers, with trees being allowed to regenerate naturally, backed up by some broadleaf planting.
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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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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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By NATALIE STOREY  Workers preserve forest lands while helping farmers make profits  It wasn't so long ago that farmers and cattle herders in southern Costa Rica, in their efforts to survive, had nearly destroyed part of one of the world's most beautiful rain forests.
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An investigation is under way into claims that non-sustainable timber from rainforests is being used in the refurbishment of the House of Commons.
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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Europe and North America have reversed centuries of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.