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Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I ... I Couldn't Believe I Was in a Roadless Area Deal to shrink roadless areas in Idaho approved by Bush admin		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 AM on 02 Sep 2008 An Idaho-specific plan meant to replace President Clinton's national roadless rule in the state was agreed to Friday by the Bush administration, timber interests, and a few environmental groups. If approved by the Secretary of Agriculture after a public-comment period, the revised rule would protect just 3.3 million ac ...
Topics: Idaho, logging, mining, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Hoot and Holler Feds axe acreage of spotted owl habitat		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The amount of old-growth forest designated as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl was slashed 23 percent, or 1.6 million acres, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. One might think that means that spotted owls are doing well for themselves, but no: the spotted owl population is dropping by 4 percent each year. Despite widespread efforts to protect their Northwest old-growth home, the ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, logging, national forests, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Primate Fear Orangutans heading toward extinction		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:09 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Orangutans are on their way toward extinction, says a new study that points out worrying declines in fuzzy-orange-ape populations. Orangutans only live in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo; the Sumatra orangutan population has dropped nearly 14 percent since 2004, while the Borneo population has fallen 10 percent. "Unless extraordinary efforts are made soon, it could become the first great ape sp ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, Indonesia, logging, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Plum the Depths Deal could open way for more development in Montana forest		07 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 07 Jul 2008 Plum Creek Timber, which just negotiated a giant conservation deal with green groups, has also made a closed-door deal with the U.S. Forest Service that could ease the way for development on thousands of acres of Montana forestland. For decades, the USFS has enforced restrictions on logging roads that allow them to only be used for timber management. But under the deal expected to be form ...
Topics: logging, Montana, news, placemaking, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Amazon Disgrace Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 17 Mar 2008 There's no better way to start off a Monday than with depressing news from the Peruvian Amazon, which is under threat from both fossil-fuel development and illegal logging. Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote rainforest for oil and gas companies to explore. And in even more somber news, Per ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, habitat loss, insanity, logging, news, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Where's Grover Norquist when you need him? Bush raises taxes on hikers and campers, mysteriously leaving logging companies alone	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Bush won't slash subsidies for raise taxes on oil companies, but he's happy to raise taxes on hikers and campers. But I'm sure Grover Norquist will hold him accountable for this apostasy. Reeling from the high cost of fighting wildfires, federal land agencies have been imposing new fees and increasing existing ones at recreation sites across the West in an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars. Additionally, hundreds of marginally profitable campsites and ...
Topics: George Bush, logging, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Letter to the editor: forest certification Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to Grist's green-buying tips	Grist	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Here is a letter to the editor from Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc., written in response to our article featuring tips for buying green products and avoiding greenwashed ones. ----- Dear Editor: I am writing in response to an article that your website ran titled 'Is It Really Green?' It was disappointing to read your statement about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard� (SFI�). The fact is, SFI is an independent nonprofit organization and ...
Topics: consumerism, deforestation, green living, greenwashing, logging (all these topics)

On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:49 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Following Brazil's recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for pasture, fining me ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

Hillary's poisonous NH cloud Clinton lobbied for tire burning near Granite State	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
With the New Hampshire primaries approaching, I thought I'd share this article about how Hillary Clinton's political style has directly affected New Hampshire voters in a way that might shed light on the kind of president she would be. The article was co-written with Friends of the Earth Action president Brent Blackwelder. ----- New Hampshire has for decades struggled to keep its air clean. But during 2005 and 2006, Hillary Clinton's ambitions collided with ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Hillary Clinton, logging, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics)

Throw the book at him Which circle of hell for illegal logging?	Eric de Place	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Sickening. Kevin John Moran of Camano Island, Wash., was just convicted of illegally cutting down 27 old-growth cedars on public land. They were between 400 and 700 years old. And they were dry-side trees, even rarer than the Northwest's west-slope titans. But here's the worst that can happen to him: Theft of government property is a Class C felony, which means a maximum sentence of 10 years or less, and a fine not to exceed $250,000. Some of these tr ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, Washington (all these topics)

Sears of Joy Sears and KMart will phase out PVC, Wal-Mart accused of eco-naughtiness		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:36 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Big-box behemoths Sears and Kmart have agreed to phase out nasty plastic PVC from all products in their 3,800 stores. While admirable, the announcement merely makes those stores the lemmings of PVC abandonment; IKEA, Wal-Mart, and Target have all previously agreed to go PVC-free. In other big-box news, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Wal-Mart of sour ...
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, logging, news, shopping, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

Winging It Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Wood You Believe It Forest Stewardship Council will overhaul too-lax rules		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:19 PM on 30 Oct 2007 Ooh, bummer: The Forest Stewardship Council, trusted certifier of sustainably sourced wood and paper, plans to overhaul its standards after acknowledging that some companies using its label are logging destructively. source:� The Wall Street Journal From the Archives Candid Campus. Sierra magazine names top 10 green colleges. Nuke Rebuke. Research panel discourag ...
Topics: business, Forest Stewardship Council, logging, news (all these topics)

Gaffe All the Way to the Bank World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:21 PM on 05 Oct 2007 The World Bank's encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization's legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramb ...
Topics: Congo, logging, news, World Bank (all these topics)

For peat's sake, stop the palm oil madness It's not a 'sustainable' biofuel	Joseph Romm	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
So Europeans are buying Indonesian palm oil as a 'sustainable' biofuel, but it isn't sustainable, as we've noted before. The tragedy continues: Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires ... Blazes have started flaring again since the end of June with the start of the dry season. How a big deal is this? As The New York Times put it earlier ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, logging (all these topics)

Timber industry rent seeking Making things out of wood sequesters carbon, turns out	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
One telling point that carbon tax advocates make against cap-and-trade systems is that they create an enormous incentive for rent-seeking. Now it seems the timber industry is getting in on the game. Via Greenwire (sub rqd), this has my BS alarm all a-ringin': [Timber] Industry groups are lobbying Congress and making a public relations push to promote privately managed forests as carbon sinks -- a bid for a place in potential cap-and-trade schemes for greenhouse gas e ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, logging (all these topics)

Can't see the trees for the forest Park Service hacks down some trees in Pa.	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
This is sorta effed. The National Park Service is cutting down hundreds of acres of trees on the Gettysburg Battlefield to restore historical accuracy. From NBC News in Pennsylvania: The National Park Service is starting another phase of its efforts to return Gettysburg Battlefield to how it looked in 1863, during the Civil War. The Union Army placed its cannons in the area, WGAL-TV reported. Park historians said the extra trees give visitors the impression tha ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national parks, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Truth in the Tongass Gathering data in the U.S.' largest temperate rainforest a heroic and necessary task	Erik Hoffner	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Hiking part of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska a few summers ago, I was utterly wowed, but knowing that it accounts for nearly one-third of the old-growth temperate rain forest left in the world seemed incredibly incongruent with the fact that my government was working so hard to wreck it (thanks to some truly absurd subsidies). An excellent story in the new National Geographic retells the tale and shines light on new efforts aimed at allowing the ...
Topics: Alaska, deforestation, logging, national forests, rainforests (all these topics)

Dios Mio Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ...
Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics)

The Log Days of Bummer GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage		06 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Log Days of Bummer GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage The Bush administration, not environmental lawsuits, is to blame for the nearly $11 million cost of a logging project that will salvage only $8.8 million worth of timber, says a new study from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. After the 2002 Biscuit fire burned almost 500,000 acres in Oregon a ...
Topics: California, logging, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Bird Mentality New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida		26 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Bird Mentality New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida Bird researchers have spotted ivory-billed woodpeckers 14 times in the past 18 months in a remote area of the Florida panhandle -- on some occasions, two at the same time -- according to a report in the Canadian online journal Avian Conservation and Ecology. The team of scientists also made some 300 sound recordings of the woodpeckers, fou ...
Topics: Florida, logging, news, North Carolina, wildlife (all these topics)

Going to jail for the environment	Corey McKrill	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Today I received an email from my friend Kate, with whom I studied environmental politics and geology in college, and who now works for the Cascadia Wildlands Project in Eugene, Oregon. On Monday, she was arrested in Medford, Oregon, during a protest against the roadless-area logging recently approved by the Bush Administration. Below the fold is her letter describing her experience and explaining why she chose to participate in an act of civil disobedience. I've added ...
Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline		09 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline What happens if you make funding for rural schools and roads dependent on revenues from a declining resource industry? What's that you say? Nobody would be stupid enough to do that? Ha ha. Readers, meet the federal government. A federal program that had tied rural funding to logging revenue led, as logging revenues ...
Topics: education, logging, news, politics (all these topics)

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em Group tries logging forests to save them		07 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em Group tries logging forests to save them In order to save logged-over areas from development while improving wildlife habitat and creating jobs, the Virginia-based nonprofit Conservation Fund plans to ... log them more. It's a counterintuitive approach that's raising some hackles in the environmental community. The group has been acquiring thousands of ac ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, news (all these topics)

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