Relaxed forest rules revive West&#39;s timber wars
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Forest rules issued this week by the Bush administration are just the latest chapter in a decades-long debate over how to manage millions of acres of public land.
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The overhaul of the guidelines will make it easier for forest managers to decide whether to allow logging, drilling or off-road vehicles.
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Global demand for wood is threatening the long-term survival of Africa's forest dwelling communities.
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Tree farmer Kent Hinson says he is out on a limb when it comes to his pro-environment view. &quot;Most foresters in general look at the environmentalists as an adversary, as a group
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada is moving a couple more pieces in the chess game that its softwood lumber trade battle with the United States has become.
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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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With millions of acres of public land available for hunting in Minnesota and Wisconsin, it might seem odd that some outdoorsmen fight over who has the right to hunt on certain land.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002 wildfire in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
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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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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 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 Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 14--The public will have less say over how North Carolina's 1.2 million-acre national forests are managed, environmentalists charge, after a rule change the U.S. Forest Service completed this week.
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BANGKOK : Conservationists are preparing for key battles at a global wildlife summit in Bangkok as officials warn that the battle to save endangered species is being hampered by lumbering bureaucracy, unwilling governments and a cash crisis.
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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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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  May 31--Trouble is stirring where only the deer, elk and sportsmen once roamed.   Washington's wildlife recreation lands have been managed in decent harmony with hunters and fishermen over the past seven decades.
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For the nation's forest rangers, the serenity of the woods increasingly is giving way to confrontations with unruly visitors.
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The Bush administration said Wednesday it will put off until after the election a final decision on a plan to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of remote forests where both are now prohibited.