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Job None		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Job None Following the collapse of the Northwest timber industry in the 1990s, thousands of workers lost their jobs. The conventional wisdom has been that these workers were absorbed by a boom in the region's high-tech industry -- but a new study of a decade's worth of employment records questions that conclusion. True, the region's economy as a whole grew during the '90s, ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, logging, Northwest, Oregon (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
On the Roadless Again In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has reinstated a Clinton administration rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forests from logging, mining, and construction. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted an injunction against the roadless rule yesterday, simultaneously affirming its legal basis and criticizing a lower court fo ...
Topics: logging, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Texan's Chainsaw Massacre		12 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Texan's Chainsaw Massacre Disregarding opposition in both houses of Congress, President Bush announced a plan yesterday to expedite the cutting of trees and brush in national forests by streamlining environmental reviews and judicial oversight. Bush says the plan will help reduce fire danger, but critics say last summer's wildfires merely provided the pretext for permitting more logging on public lands, including commer ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest for the Stumps		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Forest for the Stumps Here's something you probably weren't feeling very thankful for on Thursday: The Bush administration issued a proposal last week that would allow managers of the country's 155 national forests to approve logging and other commercial activities without thoroughly assessing the potential environmental damage that could result. The proposal would radically alter Clinton-era ru ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down The Bush administration and environmentalists are at loggerheads over what should happen to national forests burned in last summer's wildfire season. The administration is pushing for aggressive logging of scorched forests, including older and larger trees; next month, it will propose new rules meant to reduce delays in timber sales due to environmental appeals. Enviros, meanwhile, argue t ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics (all these topics)

Life in the Fast Lane		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Life in the Fast Lane Since early this month, environmental educator John Quigley has spent most of his time perched high in the leafy boughs of a 400-year-old oak tree that developers want removed to expand a local road in Santa Clarita, Calif. The proposed throughway would enable traffic to flow to a suburban community where more than 21,000 new homes are planned in Los Angeles County. Meanwhile, Susan Moloney has been fast ...
Topics: California, logging, politics (all these topics)

Prairie Dogged		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Prairie Dogged Faced with drought and plunging profits, Colorado farmers are under growing financial pressure to hawk their land to developers. Between 1993 and 2001, about 1.5 million acres of farmland in the state were put on the market and developed; 300,000 of the acres were sold in 2001 as a drought began to take hold. State officials are scrambling to come up with solutions that w ...
Topics: Colorado, dams, energy, food and agriculture, logging, placemaking (all these topics)

Bunk Rock On sustainable bunk beds	Umbra Fisk	14 Nov 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've been looking for a sustainably harvested bunk bed for my five-year-old son for quite some time now. I have found only one company, Pacific Rim, that makes such an item. It seems like a great company, but it doesn't have exactly what I'm looking for. When I search online, all I read about are "super low, unbeatable prices," rather than the really important details, like whether it's any good for our planet. Do ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, logging (all these topics)

You're Living in Your Own Private Idaho		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
You're Living in Your Own Private Idaho An increasingly common type of collaboration between a conservation group and a logging company will protect up to 600,000 acres of private forestland in northern Idaho from development. The Washington-based timber company Potlatch, which owns the land, will sell its development rights to the California-based Trust for Public Land, which in turn expects to raise more than $40 million from ...
Topics: Idaho, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Are They Rocky Mountain High?		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Are They Rocky Mountain High? Another one from the Believe-It-Or-Not Department: Colorado officials want to increase clear-cutting to help solve the state's drought problem. Removing trees would allow more snow to fall to the ground, where it would run off into streams in the spring, providing enough new water to supply as many as a million families, says Kent Holsinger, the top water official at ...
Topics: Colorado, logging, politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Back in Black		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Back in Black Now that President Bush has strengthened his hand with a Republican-controlled Congress, his once-doomed energy plan -- which would provide $30 billion in tax cuts for the fossil-fuel and nuclear-power industries and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling -- stands a good chance of passing. Enviros are pinning their hopes on possible presidential contenders, John Kerry (D- ...
Topics: energy, logging, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Leaf Me Alone		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Leaf Me Alone At international talks underway on protecting endangered species, the Bush administration has announced that it is "neutral" and "undecided" in the debate over whether to restrict trade in big-leaf mahogany from Latin America. The U.S. position since the time of George Bush the Elder had been to call for stricter limits on trade in th ...
Topics: business, globalization, logging, politics, South America, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.?		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.? To the great joy of Canadian loggers, British Columbia's Liberal government unveiled a plan this week to streamline the approval process for forest cutting by April 2003. "The entire framework asks for a lot of trust and faith in the activities of forest corporations," said University of British Columbia forestry professor George Hoberg. Forest Minister Mi ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycats		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycats Canadian wilderness activists still can't get over their astonishment or their delight over yesterday's announcement by International Forest Products (Interfor) that it would halt all logging in spotted owl habitat in British Columbia, Canada. The company is the second-most active logger in the endangered owl's terrain; not long ago it was considered Pub ...
Topics: business, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

A Fungus Among Us		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
A Fungus Among Us There's no time for snails and 'shrooms -- that was the gist of an announcement Monday by the Bush administration, which is seeking to ease environmental regulations governing logging on federal land in the Pacific Northwest. The timber industry and administration officials complain that the "survey and manage" component of the regulations, which mandates detailed surve ...
Topics: business, logging, Pacific Northwest, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Paper Tiger Confusion over the definition of old growth is spurring a new campaign by ForestEthics against major paper retailers. In the past, the environmental organization has taken on lumber retailers such as Home Depot; now, it's turning its attention to Staples, accusing the company of misleading customers into thinki ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (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)

Fire Him		04 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fire Him Allan Fitzsimmons, the man chosen by the Bush administration to head its wildfire prevention program, does not believe in ecosystems and says the extinction of threatened and endangered species would not be a crisis. Fitzsimmons was tasked last week with reducing fire danger on Interior Department lands through the newly formed Healthy Forests Initiative, but environmentalists say the appointment confirms their fears ...
Topics: logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Up a Tree		26 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Up a Tree When Julia Butterfly Hill did it, it was a novelty. Now, it seems, it's becoming a trend: young people taking to the trees to fend off logging companies. From Santa Cruz, Calif., to the Pacific Northwest, dozens of tree-sitters are living in the canopy to protect old-growth forests from the axe -- so many that a cottage industry has grown up around them to provide food, water, clothes, company, encou ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging (all these topics)

Money Doesn't Grow on Tree Cutting		26 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Money Doesn't Grow on Tree Cutting Money talks. At least, that's the hope of environmentalists in Texas, who are appealing to taxpayers' economic self-interest in an effort to stop commercial logging in the state's four national forests. After 15 years of failed efforts to stop the logging through legal action, the Sierra Club turned to a different tactic, commissioning and going public with a study on the l ...
Topics: logging, Sierra Club, Texas, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Knowing the Cost of Every Thin and the Value of Nothing		23 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Knowing the Cost of Every Thin and the Value of Nothing The plan unveiled by President Bush earlier this week to make it easier to thin forests in the name of fire prevention has touched off a firestorm of its own, enraging environmentalists who see it as a giveaway for the timber industry and a backdoor out of environmental protection measures. Moreover, environmentalists see the Bush plan as a Trojan horse for sneaking a highly controve ...
Topics: logging, politics (all these topics)

Backdraft		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Backdraft Citing the need to reduce fire danger after a season of devastating wildfires, President Bush is planning to propose more extensive thinning of Western forests and support legislation to streamline environmental rules that have slowed down some logging projects in the region. Most Western governors back the plan to thin forests, but environmental groups say the president is simply leveraging fears raised by this sea ...
Topics: logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Arresting Development		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Arresting Development U.S. federal authorities arrested two Portland State University students yesterday and are seeking two others in conjunction with the firebombing of logging trucks during last year's protest of the Eagle Creek timber sale in Oregon. Environmentalists spent years protesting the timber sale, and some resorted to tree-sitting and other forms of civil disobedience. The sale was finally cancelled las ...
Topics: logging, Oregon, Portland, wilderness (all these topics)

Amazon Quivers		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Quivers Deep in the southeastern jungles of Peru, a stand-off has begun between illegal loggers and some of the world's last wholly isolated indigenous groups. Around 400 native Amazonians, who traditionally have little to no contact with the outside world, have emerged to try to run the illegal loggers off the land. After four of the loggers were reportedly injured with arrows, others called for reinforcemen ...
Topics: Brazil, business, logging, rainforests (all these topics)

Two Green Peas in a Pod		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Two Green Peas in a Pod It's a rare day when Greenpeace and the Bush administration see eye to eye, but the environmental organization is siding with the White House in a fight against mahogany importers. Seven such importers have sued the administration for holding up 12 shipments of Brazilian mahogany, which have been stranded on U.S. docks since last winter due to concerns that they may violate Bra ...
Topics: Brazil, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States (all these topics)

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