Thick Forests, Thick Issues for Rey
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With wildfires burning in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Nevada this week, the firestorm over the Bush administration's logging policies continued, and the man in the middle of it all was Mark E. Rey.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 13:  No one but the timber industry benefits if the U.S. Forest Service allows the continued degradation of the world's largest temperate rainforest _ the Tongass in southeast Alaska.
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Gabe: ***STAR WARS NERD CRAP!***I've been meaning to mention Karen's new book in the Republic Commando series for a while but I wanted to wait until I finished it. I'm a ridiculously slow reader so I didn't actually wrap it up until a few weeks ago. If you're reading the series "True Colors" is out in stores and it's great. If you're not reading the series you should start at the beginning. Karen is essentially covering the Clone Wars like a real war correspondent would. Seeing as that was her previous job it makes sense. She's looking at the war and asking the questions a real journalist would ask. "Why do we all of a sudden have a clone army? Don't they take ten years to grow?" "How are we paying for this?" "Why doesn't anyone ever see veterans or wounded clone troopers returning home?" She is cutting through the Galactic/imperial propaganda and showing the war from the point of view of the soldiers. Star Wars fiction tends to be about Jedi. All the movies are about Jedi and almost all of the books tend to revolve around Jedi and their lives. Republic Commando is refreshing because it's not about Jedi. It's about soldiers fighting a war that the government will never let them win. The newest book also happens to introduce my new favorite Star Wars characters. Gaib and the Tk-0 droid are data bounty hunters. Essentially hackers for hire. So fucking awesome.  *** END OF STAR WARS NERD CRAP***  I also have some Child's Play updates for you. If you couldn't make it to the dinner last week or you just want to remember how rad it was, you can hit Kiko's Flickr for his pictures. As of last Friday we're up to $850,000 for the year. It looks like we'll have no problem breaking a million before we wrap things up in January.This is the last day for a very cool Heroes auction over on eBay. The auction was assembled by our friend Ollie who works on the show. He managed to get a pilot scrip signed by a bunch of the cast members as well as a bunch of other great Heroes collectibles.-Gabe out
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Having lost its companion in a close brush our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a fast-moving star appears to have had enough. It's fleeing the galaxy.
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Questions were being raised about how the fire-fight has been coordinated and how resources have been deployed.
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Trish De Somma considers herself the eyes and ears of the patch of national forest near Los Angeles where her family leases a cabin. Forest fire officials see De Somma and others like her as a liability living amid hills and canyons of kindling-dry pines and brush.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--There's something alluring about the supertrees soon to find their way to the Coast's urban forest.
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
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DEMAND for water and continued development of the Klang Valley and Selangor has left Mother Nature shaking her head. The Lakum Forest Reserve, home to many protected animals and plants of medicinal value, is to be flooded by the Kelau Dam.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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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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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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The provenance of a man-made forest in the shape of a swastika near the edge of the Himalayas presents a complicated mystery.
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Unless youâve been living under a rock, you&#39;re familiar with Star Wars creator, sometimes director, George Lucas and his production company Lucas Films.