Payette Forest Seeks Public Comment on Mushrooms
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 9--The Payette National Forest is inviting public comment on a proposal that would allow a commercial mushroom harvest in some areas that burned last summer, primarily in the South Fork Salmon River drainage and locations near Stibnite.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Dec. 17--Loggers will thin out a 47-acre bug-infested swath of mature trees on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest under a proposed forest-health improvement project on the Mount Adams Ranger District.
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By Joe Grundle  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled two public hearings in late March on proposed air-quality regulations for some lands on the Forest County Potawatomi Community reservation.  One hearing will be begin at 6 p.m.
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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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Scientists are getting to the root of the matter, compiling a fungus "tree of life" that could have health benefits for humans.
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By Jim Kershner, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun.
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The most recent of our numerous skirmishes between forest managers and environmentalists started over the weekend, when fliers appeared at the city's Dale Ball trailheads warning that the city was about to cut down 90 percent of tree cover in the area.
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By TACON, Terry  GROWING native trees for timber and environmental values will be the topic of a seminar to be held at the Mangorei Hall on March 16.
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A new proposal from the mayor of Amsterdam is sure to be considered a bummer by certain visitors to the Dutch city: a three-day waiting period to buy hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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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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Swiss scientists find what they say may be Europe's biggest mushroom - the size of about 50 football pitches.
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The nation's largest gold-producing state is being asked to investigate whether mercury emissions from its mines are contaminating area fisheries.
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Environmental groups Sierra Club and Environmental Defense on Tuesday asked the U.S.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Northern Bureau  SANTA FE -- Information about a planned tree-thinning project being distributed by a newly formed environmental group has Santa Fe environmentalists in an uproar and city officials accusing the group of scare tactics.
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Too many trees lost for more shopping centers  This was recently sent to Mayor (Meyera) Oberndorf.  Please visit our neighborhood of old Thalia. Come and see what they have done to the corner at Willis Furniture store thus far.
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By AP  PORTLAND   A bill to expand the Mount Hood wilderness area by more than 128,000 acres was introduced Wednesday in the Senate in a bipartisan push to get it approved before the end of the year.   Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., joined his colleague, Sen.