Life-giving dead wood 'at risk'
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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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Trees and plants are to be cut down in woodland near Redruth in southwest England after the discovery of a new disease.
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At issue is whether scientists using DNA from aboriginal populations are underselling the risks to donors.
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Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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A timber company plans to start logging next week in a burned area that had been reserved as old growth forest, setting up a confrontation with environmentalists who believe leaving the dead trees standing is better for fish, wildlife and the forest.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 3--GAUTIER -- Sam Taylor said more than 1,000 dead trees have been removed from residential properties across Gautier, and at least 250 more could be removed by the end of June.
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Doctors risk treacherous landing conditions to reach sick people in some of the most remote parts of the world's largest rainforest
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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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Lead may raise the risk of death at levels much lower than those widely thought as safe, research suggests.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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By PHIL MULKINS Action Line  Dear Action Line:   Some fire deaths are attributed to "smoke inhalation." People breathe wood smoke all the time without harm. It makes people think it's OK to go back into burning buildings. -- R.W., Tulsa.
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A haemophiliac who has been told he may develop vCJD after receiving blood from a donor who later died of the disease yesterday said the Government should be held to account for the blunder.
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Certain adapters may pose a risk of fire or electrical shock.
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RHINELANDER, Wis. -- There is something slightly eerie about the rings of white pipes and wooden crosses that loom up suddenly here in the lush northern forest.
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By S.J  I REFER to the report "The life drains out of Pedu Lake" (NST, Jan 31).   The failure of the resorts at Pedu Lake has little or nothing to do with the discovery of old graves, lack of promotion or remoteness as claimed.