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The Day After Tamayo Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez guides the fight for Honduran forests	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2005	Main Dish
José Andrés Tamayo Cortez. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The woodlands of southeastern Honduras range from mountaintop cloud forests to low-lying rainforests; they are home to more than 500 bird species and a wide array of other animals and plants. But in recent years, more than half of the 12 million acres of forest in the isolated Olancho region has been mowed down ...
Topics: Central America, logging (all these topics)

Supply Chain of Fools U.S. opposes international plan to curb illegal logging, memo reveals		16 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Supply Chain of Fools U.S. opposes international plan to curb illegal logging, memo reveals The U.S. is working to undermine a British-led effort to curb illegal logging in threatened rainforests, according to a leaked U.S. State Department memo. Indonesian leaders recently declared that they don't have the capacity to control the criminal gangs that are plundering the nation's tropical forests, and they asked we ...
Topics: logging, news, rainforests, United States (all these topics)

Post No Bills Eco-activists arrested for protesting near bank chief's home		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Post No Bills Eco-activists arrested for protesting near bank chief's home Three activists with the Rainforest Action Network were arrested and fined earlier this month after posting signs on telephone poles and trees near the home of J.P. Morgan Chase CEO William Harrison. Designed to look like Old West "wanted" posters, the fliers read "Wanted -- William 'Billy the Kid' Harrison" and urge ...
Topics: business, logging, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Just Looking Forest Service considers sustainability certification		09 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Just Looking Forest Service considers sustainability certification In an attempt to stem criticism of its logging and forest-management practices from both timber companies and conservationists, the U.S. Forest Service is assessing a handful of forests to determine if they meet management requirements outlined by two very different sustainable forestry organizations, with an eye toward possible certifica ...
Topics: logging, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Congo Line Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management		28 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Congo Line Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management Several logging companies in southeastern Cameroon have joined an initiative conservationists say could help save the rainforests of the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical rainforests in the world. The African logging firms are working toward independent certification as responsible foresters, restricting ...
Topics: Cameroon, logging, news, rainforests, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections		22 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections Outrage over the Feb. 12 murder of nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has finally catalyzed Brazil's government to protect the forest Stang worked for decades to save. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in addition to once again pulling logging permits he had restored just a week before Stang's assassination due to intense pro-logging protests, announced o ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics)

It Takes a Pillage to Raze the Wild Illegal logging operation in Indonesia feeds China's appetite for wood		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
It Takes a Pillage to Raze the Wild Illegal logging operation in Indonesia feeds China's appetite for wood A three-year investigation of some of the last remaining intact tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region has revealed an enormous international smuggling ring, possibly the largest in the world involving a single type of wood, says a report from two enviro groups. In a billion-dollar-a-year operation, the criminal ...
Topics: China, Indonesia, logging, news (all these topics)

Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction Through heart-rending tragedy, international attention was focused with unusual intensity this week on rainforest destruction in Brazil. Dorothy Stang, an elderly nun working to slow the devastation of the Amazon by organizing locals against the powerful (and largely illegal) logging and ranching operations bent on expanding the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news, rainforests, ranching (all these topics)

Philippine Philippic Illegal logging in Philippines contributes to flood devastation		03 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Philippine Philippic Illegal logging in Philippines contributes to flood devastation Recent storms in the Philippines have wreaked havoc on the country, with hundreds killed or missing in landslides and floods, and enviros and government officials are both taking aim at what they call a principal culprit: illegal logging. Though unusually high rainfall and the geography of the region contributed to flooding, it didn't help that forest ...
Topics: logging, Philippines (all these topics)

Lockyer and Load California says it will sue feds over Sierra Nevada forest plan		22 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Lockyer and Load California says it will sue feds over Sierra Nevada forest plan If the Bush administration's plan to increase logging in the Sierra Nevada national forest is approved, California will sue to block it, said state Attorney General Bill Lockyer (D). Last Thursday, the head of the U.S. Forest Service approved the plan; U.S. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey now has 15 days to review it before it becomes final. ...
Topics: California, logging, politics (all these topics)

Power in Lumbers Small tree-harvesting operations gang up to get certified		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Power in Lumbers Small tree-harvesting operations gang up to get certified Many small to mid-sized forestry operations are run by folks who value the health of their trees and try their best to be good stewards of the land they own. However, getting official recognition of this fact -- in the form of being certified green by the Forest Stewardship Council, a Germany-based coalition wi ...
Topics: business, Canada, Forest Stewardship Council, logging, United States (all these topics)

Where There's Heat, There's Fire Massive forest fires may be caused by global warming		08 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Where There's Heat, There's Fire Massive forest fires may be caused by global warming The massive forest fires that have ravaged the American West in recent years may be caused by global warming, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The Bush administration has argued that the fires are unnatural, caused by overgrown forest ground cover, and more logging, er, "thinning" is needed to prevent them -- thus the Healt ...
Topics: climate, logging, West (all these topics)

Tennessee Faults Conservationists use market to save Cumberland Plateau hardwood forests		25 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Tennessee Faults Conservationists use market to save Cumberland Plateau hardwood forests The 19.4 million acres that comprise the Cumberland Plateau and surrounding mountains in the southeastern U.S. contain more threatened and endangered species than any ecosystem in the country outside California's Central Valley. But the hardwood forests that cover the area are rapidly being clearcut and replaced with swaths of faster-grow ...
Topics: business, logging, Southeast (all these topics)

Sex! Violence! Sitting in a Tree! Story of tree-sitting activist Julia Butterfly Hill headed to big screen		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Sex! Violence! Sitting in a Tree! Story of tree-sitting activist Julia Butterfly Hill headed to big screen Celebrated activist Julia Butterfly Hill, author of the memoir "The Legacy of Luna," is heading for the bright lights (and sudden fame, subsequent substance abuse, rehab, appearance on "The Surreal Life," and rehabilitation by hot indie filmmaker) of Hollywood. Hill, you may recall, protested Pacific Lumber ...
Topics: green living, logging (all these topics)

Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Losing Our Marbleds Bush Team Aims to Revoke Protections from Threatened Seabird The Bush administration took a big step yesterday toward removing the marbled murrelet, a Northwest seabird, from the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, a move enviros say will lead to further logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The ruling from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service states that the declin ...
Topics: logging, Northwest, wildlife (all these topics)

The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico A guerilla war is underway in Mexico's idyllic Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where millions of black-and-orange monarch butterflies alight every year at the end of a migratory journey that begins in Canada and the Great Lakes states. On one side lie conservation groups, government agencies, and local forest-watch community groups strug ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Polluting the Village to Save It Bush administration cites 'national security' as reason to skirt enviro rules	Amanda Griscom	12 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Bush administration cites "national security" as reason to skirt enviro rules By Amanda Griscom 12 Aug 2004 What are the enviro impacts of a construction project on the U.S.-Mexico border? Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Bush administration has proposed yet another list of environmental sacrifices that it believes America should make for the War on Terror. Last year, President Bush pushed through legislation that exempts military training ba ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national security, politics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Roads to Perdition Bush administration plans to scrap roadless-rule forest protections	Amanda Griscom	14 Jul 2004	Muckraker
Many political observers thought President Bush would lay off the environment during the election season. After all, he faces an opponent with a well-burnished rep as an environmental good boy. Seems they've misunderestimated Dubya yet again. Ann Veneman. Photo: USDA. On Monday, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced a Bush administration plan to scrap the hard-won Clint ...
Topics: logging, Muckraker, national forests, politics (all these topics)

D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking	Amanda Griscom	06 Apr 2004	Muckraker
D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking By Amanda Griscom 06 Apr 2004 Mark Rey. Photo: USFS. According to lawyers from Defenders of Wildlife, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, seems to be pulling some moves out of the Dick Cheney playbook -- the very same tricks of evasion and secrecy that have jeopardized the vice president's reputation in the fiasco surrounding his energy task force. Rey and his departm ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, logging, Muckraker, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan Remember that controversial U.S. Forest Service plan unveiled in January that aims to triple commercial logging in California's Sierra Nevada mountains? The one they said would "protect small communities" and create "forests with a future"? The one that critics said flew in the face of wide scientific consensus on the best ways to r ...
Topics: California, logging, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Soothe the Salvage Beast Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Soothe the Salvage Beast Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging Salvage logging -- harvesting burnt trees from the site of a fire -- is not, contrary to public perception and federal practice, an environmentally benign method of gathering timber, write a group of forest ecologists in an article in the journal Science. Dead wood, they say, plays an important ecological role, providing shade for seedlings, niches for ...
Topics: logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Biscuit Gets No Gravy Biscuit Fire Salvage-Logging Plan Knocked by EPA		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: logging, Oregon, US EPA, US Forest Service, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing A perfect storm of widespread poverty, corrupt and inefficient communist leadership, and international indifference has made the Southeast Asian nation of Laos a virtual case study in environmental decline. Although it is one of the world's poorest and least developed nations, Laos is rich with natural resources, which represent an almost-irresistible source ...
Topics: Asia, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

Savage Salvage Federal agencies at odds over salvage-logging proposal in Oregon	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Siskiyou-hoo! Photo: BLM. A U.S. Forest Service proposal to conduct a massive salvage-logging operation in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest has come up against a surprising critic -- the U.S. EPA. While the Bush administration has advertised the plan as a necessary measure to protect the future health of the forest -- which was hit by the Biscuit fire, the largest wildfire in the nation ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national forests, Oregon, politics, US EPA, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Certifiably Insane? Wood-labeling program less green than it appears	Jeff Shaw	23 Feb 2004	Main Dish
If you've got plans to undertake a woodworking project -- building a deck, say, or a fancy new china cabinet -- you're probably not going to figure a plane ticket to Burma or Humboldt County, Calif., into the budget, even if you'd like to be sure that the wood you'll use has been harvested sustainably. Hence, the rise of green labeling: a convenient way for consumers to put their money where their value ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Forest Stewardship Council, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

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