State offers reward for return of infested logs
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LANSING -- The state is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for stealing 40 massive logs infested with the emerald ash borer.
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--HANCOCK COUNTY -- Rebuilding delayed due to faulty septic tanks   Thousands of property owners hoping to rebuild their homes here will soon find they are stuck between a rock and a smelly place.
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 9--HALTOM CITY -- When a resident near Spring Lake arrived home to  find a brick on her kitchen floor, a shattered window and $5,000 worth of her  belongings gone, she got mad.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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By Will Jones and Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 18--Henrico County officials are considering paying millions of dollars above appraised value for land in Short Pump.   If they stroke the check, it won't be the first time.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 7--In a partial win for environmentalists, Washington's state-owned forestlands could for the first time earn an environmental stamp of approval for logging practices.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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ANSONIA, Conn. - They were looking for drugs, but also found bugs...
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A Georgia county is suing to recover $2  million in cleanup costs and other expenses from the owners of  a crematory where 334 corpses were found dumped in the woods,  buried in pits and stacked in storage sheds.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  CHESAPEAKE - Hearndon Construction Corp. has agreed to pay the state an $11,500 fine and restore wetlands and woods illegally damaged during development of new homes in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake.
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By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, what will four birds in a pocket and three in a fanny pack bring? If border agents notice, a $1,000 fine and maybe worse.  U.S.
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Victims of a toxic waste spill in Ivory Coast are to be compensated but most of the money stays in state hands.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated about 50 acres in Hays and Comal counties as critical habitat for two species of beetles and a shrimp-like crustacean.
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By TERRY DICKSON  BRUNSWICK -- Glynn County will receive $25 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against the owners of the former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Superfund site in Brunswick.  The county had sued Allied Signal Inc., Honeywell International and Allied Chemical Corp.
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State wildlife officials are declaring success in their chemical campaign against an invasive weed that had threatened to overwhelm a northern Indiana lake.