New Forest Plan Would Lessen Restraints
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Managers of the nation's 155 national forests will have more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews under a new Bush administration initiative.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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The Bush administration issued a new rule Wednesday streamlining the planning process for the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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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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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 18--For a couple of weeks in May, a dispute over off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota's state forests appeared to be resolved. The Legislature had just passed a bill outlining where those machines could go, and Gov.
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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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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the Bush administration's proposal to sell off portions of national forests is that it evidently is going nowhere -- again.   That sounds about right.
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Forest-preservation pledges of $166 million this week could entice them to take part in a post-Kyoto climate deal.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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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 Bush administration Tuesday proposed cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl, reopening the 1990s battle between timber production and wildlife habitat on public lands.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--A revised federal plan to speed home and institutional building in coastal wetlands has been released for public review and comments.   The U.S.
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MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Sept. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The newly released Management Plan for the Monongahela National Forest fails to permanently protect economically and ecologically important natural areas of the forest.
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The government has announced new regulations that will limit fish farms and require better treatment of wastewater, among other measures.
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Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local...
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Managers of the nation's 155 national forests will have more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews under a new Bush administration initiative, The Associated Press has learned.