Volunteers Try to Save Plants From Backhoe: Rt. 33 Project to Cut Through Forest
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By Kelly Hassett, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 11--NELSONVILLE, Ohio -- Andrew Ford thrust his hands into the loose, crumbly soil of the Wayne National Forest yesterday and felt around.
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By MICHAEL P. McKINNEY  Journal Staff Writer  BARRINGTON  -   Reports of sexual liaisons between men resuming at the Osamequin Nature Trail might lead to a pass system, such as a car sticker, for public access to the preserve.
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The Octoraro Watershed Association is getting a grant to continue partnering with farmers in Lancaster and Chester counties for reforestation and stream buffer restoration projects.
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By Dana M. Nichols, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Dec. 9--WHITE PINES -- The days when jeeps and dirt bikes can freely roam the Stanislaus National Forest are ending.
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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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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By Amy Armour  A local developer is making an effort to preserve trees and green space for a planned 132-acre residential community in Wentzville. But this won't be a typical residential community -- almost half of the project will be designated community green space.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, The Seattle Times  Sep. 20--As the excavator dug out the deep-rooted blackberries from the  shoreline of Barr Creek last week, two men stepped down near the water,  determining where to place the large, woody debris stacked nearby.
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NEW YORK  - If the job of raking the leaves  falls to you, experts advise approaching it like a sport: warm  up, cool down and watch your form.
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By Lynn Bonner, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--A Senate committee agreed Tuesday that billboard owners should be allowed to cut more trees around their highway signs despite objections from two state agencies and environmental groups.
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PERRYSBURG, Ohio - It was a clear-cut error: A state worker mowed down 28,000 young trees that had been planted as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project.    The only thing left behind were signs that read "Do not mow or spray."  "Shame on us...
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Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 17--By Maureen Houston Two sweet gum trees towering over Elna Rosenberger's yellow frame home in Cahokia came from southeastern Kentucky as saplings. So did the tulip poplar in back.