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Chase to the Cut House passes bill to speed up salvage logging		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
Chase to the Cut House passes bill to speed up salvage logging A bill that would speed up salvage logging in national forests after fires and other natural disasters has passed in the House. Currently, a careful review of wildlife and forest health is required before timber can be salvaged and sold after catastrophes; proponents of the heftily named Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act say this review takes too darn long, cau ...
Topics: logging, news, politics (all these topics)

Pará for the Course Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva fights illegal logging in the Amazon	Michelle Nijhuis	28 Apr 2006	Main Dish
In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, where the mouth of the Amazon cuts into the continent, illegal logging, industrial farming, and a human-driven cycle of massive wildfires are destroying the tropical forests. Since he was a teenager, Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva has considered it his mission to help protect these forests, and the isolated communities that live within them. Tarcí ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging (all these topics)

Anne of Green Able Anne Kajir combats the greed of Papua New Guinea's timber barons	Michelle Nijhuis	26 Apr 2006	Main Dish
The highlands of Papua New Guinea cradle some of the most remote places in the world, and are home to an astounding diversity of languages, cultures, and plant and animal life -- including the Asian Pacific's largest intact stand of tropical forest. Anne Kajir. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Since the 1980s, industrial logging has torn through the forests of this island nation ...
Topics: logging, Papua New Guinea (all these topics)

Silas Martyr Silas Siakor put his life on the line to save Liberia's forests	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2006	Main Dish
The forests of the West African nation of Liberia cover almost 12 million acres, and are home to nearly half of Africa's mammal species -- including the region's largest forest-elephant population. But these forests, and the communities that call them home, have been ravaged by 14 years of brutal civil war. Liberian President Charles Taylor used timber to fund much of that violence, enter ...
Topics: Liberia, logging (all these topics)

Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging		16 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Flame! I Wanna Log Forever Congress debates measure that would speed up salvage logging We interrupt our ongoing coverage of global-warming doom and gloom to update you on logging doom and gloom. A bill in the U.S. House would force the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other agencies to issue decisions on timber sales on public lands that have been burned or hit by o ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Forest Service Is Dead; Long Live the Forest Service! It's time for conservationists to collaborate with an agency they've long demonized	Mitch Friedman	28 Feb 2006	Soapbox
In 1982, Earth First!er Dave Foreman used form letters to blitz the U.S. Forest Service with administrative appeals, blocking over 100 timber sales that threatened roadless areas in several Western states. There's a new ray of hope among forest activists. Photo: iStockphoto. This act of paper monkeywrenching sums up the relati ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Truce Almighty It's time for conservationists to make common cause with the Forest Service		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Earth First!, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia		24 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia Maybe we can all just get along. A landmark deal between a logging company and an environmental group could double the size of a designated national park in the Tesso Nilo rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the site of years of conflict between conservationists and timber int ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, logging, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Well, They Had to Chop Something BLM suspends funding for forestry research that contradicts Bush policy		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Well, They Had to Chop Something BLM suspends funding for forestry research that contradicts Bush policy The Bureau of Land Management has abruptly suspended funding for a team of scientists who published findings undercutting a Bush administration timber policy. The Oregon State University researchers' report, published last month in the journal Science, suggested that forests scorched in southwest Oregon ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, news, Oregon (all these topics)

A Char, Char Better Thing That I Do New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests		11 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
A Char, Char Better Thing That I Do New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests The timber industry and Bush administration officials contend that salvage logging post-wildfire is the quickest path to reforestation, but a new study refutes that claim. Published in Science, it found that logging of burned trees after the 2002 Biscuit fire in Oregon -- the biggest wildfire that year in the U.S. -- killed about 70 percent ...
Topics: logging, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Forest Trump Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Forest Trump Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman has reinstated the "look before logging" rule on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest -- abolished in 2004 by the Bush administration -- and ordered a halt to 144 timber sales in California, Oregon, and Washington that might imperil about 300 rare animal and plant species. Federa ...
Topics: logging, news, Pacific Northwest, wilderness (all these topics)

Criminal Negligee-nce Protests target Victoria's Secret, call for protection of boreal forest		04 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Criminal Negligee-nce Protests target Victoria's Secret, call for protection of boreal forest Activists took to the streets in more than 100 North American cities yesterday to protest logging of the continent's boreal forest, a vast expanse of ancient trees that stretches from Alaska to Canada's Atlantic coast. Demonstrators charged corporations with sacrificing the world's third-largest intact forest to make extra-soft toilet pape ...
Topics: business, logging, news (all these topics)

Char and Away Salvage logging after fires harms forests, new report claims		02 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Char and Away Salvage logging after fires harms forests, new report claims The Bush administration has oft trumpeted the benefits of postfire salvage logging -- coincidentally, a practice of great financial benefit to timber companies. But a recent report by the American Lands Alliance claims salvage logging is harming national forests. Fire experts and other scientists analyzed historical data and concluded that logging after a fire degrades ...
Topics: logging, news (all these topics)

We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang		27 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang In a burst of dawn raids, Brazilian police busted an Amazon logging gang yesterday. Some 400 agents fanned out across five Amazon states and arrested at least 34 people accused of forging and selling permits that facilitated the transport of millions of dollars worth of illegally logged hardwood timber. It marked the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist		22 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist Mexican forest activist Felipe Arreaga was freed last week after 10 months in jail, acquitted by a judge on murder charges stemming from the 1998 death of rancher and landowner Bernardino Bautista's son. Arreaga is a leader in the peasant-ecologist movement of Mexico's Petatlan Sierra, which gained fame for blocking massive corporate logging ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Burma Save Logging keeps Asian elephants in business ... for now	Jennifer Hile	13 Sep 2005	Main Dish
At a fork in the road, our guide points to the right. "That's the main road there," he says. "We'll go on this smaller road, deep into the jungle." A glance to the left reveals a narrow, unpaved track, which he tells us is used primarily by logging trucks. It's the dry season in Myanmar, and dead leaves hang like bats above us. The truck's idling motor blends with the cacophony of in ...
Topics: Asia, globalization, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

Reservoir Logs Timber industry turns to underwater crop	Larry Greenemeier	18 Aug 2005	Main Dish
As the traditional logging industry deals with unsteady prices and the challenges of globalization, the value of a new crop is coming to light: trees hidden under reservoirs, long given up for lost. Sawn, but not forgotten. Photo: Triton Logging Inc. While no exact count of these "rediscovered" forests -- which are being logged primarily in North and South America, Russia, and Malaysia -- seems to ...
Topics: logging (all these topics)

Take a Bough Forest meets felon in John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce	Katharine Wroth	10 Aug 2005	Arts and Minds
The old riddle goes: If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? The new one might go: If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, is it worth writing a book about? The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, W. W. Norton and Co., 256 pgs., 2005. John Vaillant thinks so. That's why the first-time author spun a New Yorker essay into the recently published ...
Topics: British Columbia, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

Spruce Almighty Federal judge says Bush rule change on logging illegal		04 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Spruce Almighty Federal judge says Bush rule change on logging illegal The Bush administration broke the law last year when it changed the rules on logging in the Pacific Northwest, a federal judge ruled this week. The Northwest Forest Plan of 1994 requires the government to survey many proposed timber sales for the presence of rare plants and animals, and manage cuts to protect them. This "look before you log" r ...
Topics: logging, news, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted		03 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted Eighty-nine people were rounded up by Brazilian authorities this week as part of a massive crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, causing a rare outbreak of hope among conservationists that the country's government is finally taking the problem seriously. (The sweep came just weeks after the latest, very grim, data on Amazon deforestation we ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics)

At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week		26 May 2005	Daily Grist
At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week International human-rights groups yesterday urged the Mexican government to take action to protect the lives of environmental activists who are carrying out anti-logging campaigns. The plea comes on the heels of an attack last week on longtime activist Albertano Penalosa, which resulted in the murders of two of his sons. Amnesty International, Greenp ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, news (all these topics)

Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Spies Like Him Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers readers' questions		29 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Allan Thornton, Environmental Investigation Agency. Is the investigation of environmental crime as cool as it sounds? I'm picturing a foggy night in a dimly lit warehouse meeting a suited man smoking a cigarette. Do you ever encounter such nefarious characters and situations? -- Thad Miller, New York, N.Y. It's less of a film-noir scene, but painstaking research and extensive long-range targeting ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions		25 Apr 2005	InterActivist
Thornton. Allan Thornton. Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers Grist's questions 25 Apr 2005 Allan Thornton. What work do you do? I run the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit environmental group with offices in Washington, D.C., and London. I generally oversee the strategic development of the organization, which includes targeting research, deploying investigative teams to obtain documentary evidence, and exposing environmental crimes; I work in close cooperation wit ...
Topics: Environmental Investigation Agency, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, logging, politics (all these topics)

In the Name of the Father Isidro Baldenegro López leads a struggle against logging in the Sierra Madre	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Isidro Baldenegro López. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. When Isidro Baldenegro López was growing up in the mountains of central Mexico, his father opposed widespread logging in the forests of the Sierra Madre. He spoke out about the effects of the destruction on the indigenous Tarahumara people, drawing the attention of local crime bosses, who ordered him ki ...
Topics: logging, Mexico (all these topics)

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