Plan Increases Logging: Decades-Long Effort Would Restore Land to Its Ecological Roots
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 10--The first new management plan in 20 years for the Uwharrie National Forest, east of Charlotte, went public Friday.   The plan would increase logging as the 52,000-acre forest returns to its ecological roots, the U.S.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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By Kearns, Ethan  AMERICAN FORESTS joined with long-time partner The Nature Conservancy this fall to spruce up Spruce Mountain, the highest point in West Virginia and site of a Global ReLeaf Forest.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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The project promises to hasten economic development, but environmentalists worry about the long-term effect.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 8--The City of San Luis Obispo and local land conservationists have raised the money needed to preserve more than 700 acres of land that will expand the city's greenbelt.
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Environmentalists, who have recognized the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea as a wildlife refuge, are pressing to preserve it.
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The hopes of environmentalists for Tasmania&#39;s old-growth forests to be protected have been raised by Opposition Leader Mark Latham&#39;s choice of words at the Labor campaign launch.
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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.
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By Bradley Olson, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--A200-year-old white oak that sparked a statewide conservation effort in 1989 and led engineers to reroute an Annapolis thoroughfare will soon be turned into firewood.
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 14--Wildlife, water quality and eco-tourism would benefit under legislation proposed Tuesday in Congress to designate nearly 55,000 acres in Southwest Virginia as wilderness or national scenic areas, the bill's sponsors say.
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A scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change.
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Plans to restore the ancient tradition of living and working in woodland areas are being submitted in the Highlands.
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A study in Central Africa suggests that logging and tropical rain forests can coexist. Some environmental groups disagree.
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Forest rules issued this week by the Bush administration are just the latest chapter in a decades-long debate over how to manage millions of acres of public land.
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Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years &#151; converting wood to mineral.
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Global demand for wood is threatening the long-term survival of Africa's forest dwelling communities.