EDITORIAL: An Heirloom Landscape: Southern Forests Should Be Handed Down As Part of Our Inheritance
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 15--From Bob Bendick, director of the Southern Region of The Nature Conservancy:   I flew across the South from New Orleans to Charlotte. While the people around me read papers and stared into computer screens, I looked out the window.
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By Ginny Skalski, The Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, S.C.  Jun. 26--CommentsCutting down trees may become a bigger faux pas in southern Beaufort County.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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By Henry Brean  By HENRY BREAN  REVIEW-JOURNAL  Trees and shrubs by the tens of thousands would be stripped from the Spring Mountains in the coming years as part of a U.S. Forest Service plan to protect private homes, public facilities and escape routes from wildfires.
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By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent  Richard Lee Buck ~ 1929-2006  Richard Lee Buck felt so strongly about conservation and land preservation that he raised his family in a nature preserve.
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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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Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives, says report.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 27--The stereotype of conservatives has them admiring a stand of old-growth trees, then waving in the backhoes and logging crews to turn the forest into cash.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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By Arlene Mart?nez, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 12--Property owners debating whether to keep their land undeveloped forever can reap better tax benefits if they do it this year.
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Sep. 22--State officials said yesterday they are setting aside about  100,000 acres of state forest to begin recreating a landscape most residents  have never seen: old growth forests.
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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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Activists are concerned that conversion of the native hardwood forest to fast-growing pine is damaging crucial habitat for hundreds of plants and animals.
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By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669  The proposed sale of national forest land, which died amid a national storm of criticism last year, has been resurrected in President Bush's 2008 budget proposal.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Sep. 18--A father and son have been on the fence for years, trying to decide if they want to sell their Barto farm for development or give up the right to sell and instead preserve the property for future generations.