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Owl Play		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Owl Play Logging in the Sierra Nevadas could nearly triple if the U.S. Forest Service manages the forests there according to the new plan it released yesterday. That plan would reduce habitat for the California spotted owl in favor of aggressive forest thinning in the name of wildfire prevention. The Forest Service says the plan, which would radically revise the ...
Topics: California, deforestation, endangered species, logging, news, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Chop Shop		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Shop The environmental policies of the Bush administration are endangering our nation's woodlands, according to a coalition of environmental groups that yesterday released a list of the 10 most at-risk forests. The coalition, which included Greenpeace and the National Forest Protection Alliance, assessed the risks po ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Coal Comfort		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Comfort A four-and-a-half-year study by the federal government has confirmed what most residents of Appalachia figured was obvious: Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying the region's forests and streams. Yet despite the findings, which were released yesterday, the Bush administration does not intend to impose concrete limits on the practice. In ...
Topics: Appalachia, deforestation, energy, mining and drilling, renewable energy, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

The Evidence Is Thin		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Evidence Is Thin A new report by the federal government has found that very few forest-thinning projects have been stalled by appeals from environmentalists, giving the lie to allegations to the contrary by the Bush administration. The General Accounting Office reported yesterday that the U.S. Forest Service was able to proceed with 95 percent of thinning projects within 90 days or fewer, u ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Gone With the Flow		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gone With the Flow The Khasi Hills of northeastern India are one of the wettest places on Earth, typically experiencing torrential rains throughout the monsoon season and laying claim to the world record of 1,000 inches of rainfall in just one year. Now, though, the Khasi Hills are drying up due to environmental changes wrought by pollution, deforestation, the development of in ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, India, land degradation, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Caffeine Buzz Kill		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Caffeine Buzz Kill Wild tigers, orangutans, and other megafauna in Sumatra, Indonesia, are being pushed out of their native habitat as lowland forests are clear-cut to make room for coffee plantations. The cheap robusta beans grown in this region end up in instant coffee. From 1996 to 2001, land cleared for coffee production in the Lampung region of Sumatra jumped by 28 percent, according to a new study published in the journal Sci ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Can You Odigha It? Nigerian activist Odigha Odigha fights to halt illegal logging	Michelle Nijhuis	14 Apr 2003	Main Dish
In southeastern Nigeria, private logging companies are felling the country's last remaining rainforests. These hardwood forests shelter the highest diversity of primates in the world and some 20 percent of the planet's butterfly species. Odigha Odigha. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Odigha Odigha grew up in and around these forests, in the Ijagham community of Cross River State. ...
Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, interview, logging, Nigeria, rainforests (all these topics)

Rush Fire On forest fires	Umbra Fisk	06 Sep 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My husband says that Rush is blaming the Sierra Club for the huge forest fires raging in Colorado and Arizona. He says that because environmentalists oppose logging, the forest is too full of fuel. I told him that as far as I know, the Sierra Club is really trying to prevent logging in roadless areas and wilderness areas, not areas where people are living and building developments. But he pointed out that with the fires the size the ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, deforestation, land stewardship, logging (all these topics)

Tumucumaque and Stomachache		23 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Tumucumaque and Stomachache There's good news and bad news from the Amazon. Good news first: The Brazilian government has announced the creation of the world's largest tropical forest reserve -- the 9,562,770-acre Tumucumaque National Park, in the northern Amazonian state of Amapa. The bad news is that even such a large park seems like a Band-Aid effort for Brazil's rainforest, which is disappearing at t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, national parks, rainforests (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Amazon Grace		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Grace Here's a little bit of welcome news from the Southern Hemisphere: The rate of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest has fallen sharply, according to Brazilian environmental officials. Between 2000 and 2001, the rate of logging and set forest fires fell by 13 percent, from roughly 7,000 square miles of forest destroyed in 2000 to about 6,000 last year. The Brazilian governme ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Taylor-made Destruction		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Taylor-made Destruction Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, has spread instability within his nation's borders and helped foment a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. To fund the fighting, he has exploited his country's natural resources. At first, it was diamonds -- but as internati ...
Topics: Africa, business, Colombia, deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Liberia, logging, national parks, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Go Get 'em, Tigers		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go Get 'em, Tigers The world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarban, spans the border between Bangladesh and India, but the countries don't have a joint plan to manage the 3,700-square-mile area. The United Nations is hoping to change that. Two U.N. entities, the International Partnership Fund and the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, are p ...
Topics: Bangladesh, deforestation, India, land stewardship, national forests, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Good As Goldman		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Good As Goldman Three Gwich'in Native Americans who battled oil development in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been doubly rewarded for their efforts: Last week, the Senate voted to block oil drilling in the refuge, and today, the activists are being honored with this year's Goldman Prize, the world's biggest ...
Topics: Arctic, deforestation, energy, environmental restoration, logging, mining and drilling, Poland, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Thailand (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids The 2002 Winter Olympics open tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and not everybody's thrilled about it. Environmentalists say developers took advantage of the games to permanently damage the pristine Rocky Mountain environment, even though protecting the natural world is now the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, deforestation, logging, outdoor recreation, placemaking, US Forest Service, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Red Rose		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, deforestation, education, food and agriculture, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites Last month, Mexican officials learned their country is losing its forests at a rate of nearly 3 million acres a year, or nearly twice the clip previously thought; now, they're blaming the heavy deforestation on impoverished indigenous farmers in Chiapas, who slash and burn the jungle to scrape out their meager living. The long history of m ...
Topics: deforestation, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation	Emily Matthews	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his ...
Topics: books, deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Speedy Gone-zales		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Trunk Driving		15 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Trunk Driving A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from their deforested home to a nature reserve near Cambodia. One of the elephants was captured and chained ...
Topics: Cambodia, deforestation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Landslide Brought Them Down		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Landslide Brought Them Down Floods and landslides have rushed down the sides of mountains earlier this week on the Indonesian island of Nias, destroying villages and causing at least 60 deaths. Deforestation may have caused the floods. Indonesia's largest environmental group, Walhi, found in a study this year that flash floods have occurred exactly where deforestation was ...
Topics: Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, land degradation, logging, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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