Loggers Going Into Ore. Old Growth Reserve
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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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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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Struggling 1,000 feet below ground, rescuers drew close Saturday to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion. The number of confirmed dead rose to 77.
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LAC DE GRAS, Northwest Territories -- Gold opened this northern land, attracting a rush of prospectors and miners who splayed the earth, built up towns and then, after seven decades, closed up the last exhausted gold mine two years ago.
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MERERANI, Tanzania  - The orange sun sets over the  Tanzanian mining town of Mererani as pick-up trucks take the  night shift to pits producing blue Tanzanite gemstones, and  tired workers trudge home in the opposite direction.
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More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the stateâs struggling timber industry.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 23--SONORA -- Millions of small trees -- small enough to fit under a living room ceiling -- grow amid the big ones in the Stanislaus National Forest.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 19--City government leaders plan to develop an inventory of the community's natural resources to protect the most valuable from development.
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LINFEN, China -- Mining has resumed in the frigid shafts, and long lines of 18-wheelers laden with coal once again clog the twisty mountain roads leading out of Linfen. This grime-covered city, where the packed snow long ago turned black and carbon-colored dust hangs in the air, has reclaimed its...
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The revival of the New River Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited is good news. Chapter members have worked this year to remove trash from Peak Creek and its banks and to install small log structures on the stream bed to provide cover for trout.
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By Sanne Specht, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Mar. 1--Opponents of the Opp Mine painted a picture of environmental  pollution, property destruction and community demise for Jackson County  commissioners on Wednesday.    More than 75 people attended the three-hour public hearing.
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Canadian gold producers Goldcorp and Wheaton River Minerals are set to create a company with more than 1.1 million ounces of gold production a year.
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HUNTINGTON, Utah, Aug. 25 -- The latest hole drilled into a collapsed mine where six men are trapped broke through into a chamber where there is not enough space for the men to survive, a lawyer for several of the men's families said Saturday.
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An internal company report sheds new light on operations at Newmont Mining Corporation, which has drawn the rising ire of environmental groups.
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ANDREW Forrest&#39;s dream of becoming a third iron ore force in the Pilbara moved a step closer yesterday. The Fortescue Metals chief executive last night announced the signing of three Chinese contracts supporting
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