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News archives

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Oregon State University 200-Year Experiment Changes Face Of Forest
A 200-year study of rotting logs in the Oregon Cascade Range is only 10 percent complete, but findings from this research have already helped save hundreds of millions of dollars, improved forest health and shattered conventional wisdom about the decay of woody debris. It also has attracted the inte... Continued...

Bush rules mirror polluters' defense
The Bush administration has drafted regulations that would ease pollution controls on older, dirtier power plants and could allow those that modernize to emit more pollution, rather than less. The language could undercut dozens of pending state and federal lawsuits aimed at forcing coal-fired pla... Continued...

Insurance firms, paper mills fight over Fox River cleanup bill (WI)
Insurance companies tried to coax legislators at a hearing Tuesday into killing a proposal that could force the industry to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to papermakers to cover cleaning up the Fox River. The Senate's insurance committee wasn't scheduled to vote on the legislation, which wo... Continued...

Press Release: Declaration on the Principles of Parks - Signed by 73 Canadian and US Environmental Groups
Contact: CANADA Anne Sherrod, (250) 358-2610 Valhalla Wilderness Society, New Denver British Columbia Contact: USA Scott Silver, (541) 385-5261 Wild Wilderness, Bend, Oregon Seventy-three Canadian and US environmental groups have issued a declaration on the principles of parks. Th... Continued...

Safe Harbor's First Decade: Helping Landowners Help Endangered Wildlife (NC)
"IEATRCWS," the red truck's license plate defiantly proclaimed. Of course the truck's owner didn't really dine on endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers, but like many other longleaf pine forest owners in the North Carolina Sandhills and elsewhere in the Southeast in the mid-1990s, he was wary of conse... Continued...

Dry, Hot Weather Ignites Big Alaska Wildfire Season
ANCHORAGE — Successive hot summers, vast swaths of insect-weakened trees and lightning strikes have combined to torch about 4 million acres of forest in Alaska this summer, nearly tying the state's third-largest fire season on record, federal and state officials said Tuesday. This summer's large ... Continued...

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Editorial: Destroying the national parks
Most of us think of America's national parks as everlasting places, parts of the bedrock of how we know our own country. But they are shaped and protected by an underlying body of legislation, which is distilled into a basic policy document that governs their operation. Over time, that document has ... Continued...

A Quest to Save a Tree, and Make the World Smell Sweet
Until the perfume Chanel No. 5 went on the market in 1921, pau rosa, or Brazilian rosewood, was just another tree that grew in abundance in the Amazon. But the enduring popularity of that fragrance, which includes rosewood oil as a main ingredient, began a process that has led to a black-market trad... Continued...

Economist predicts more mill closures in next year (MT)
Montana’s timber industry can expect to lose one or two more mills in the coming year if timber harvests, specifically those on national forest lands, don’t increase, a prominent wood products economist predicts. Charles Keegan, economist with the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Ec... Continued...

Position: Executive Director, Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica
The Monteverde Institute (MVI), founded in 1986, is a Costa Rican, nonprofit association dedicated to international education, applied research, community service, and the vision of a sustainable future where human and natural ecologies integrate. It provides and coordinates educational, research, a... Continued...

Habitat projects start long process to restore fish, wildlife habitat on Mississippi River pool (WI)
BUFFALO CITY, Wis. – Three multi-agency, multi-million dollar habitat projects unfolding along a dammed up stretch of the Upper Mississippi River near here are starting the long process of bringing back the river’s splendor. “In the late 1950s, you were pushing 250,000 ducks on this pool at one t... Continued...

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Environmentalists oppose giving Waukesha Lake Michigan water
Waukesha's top water manager made a pitch to let his city tap into Lake Michigan, but environmental activists said that idea should not be part of a new agreement on protecting water resources of the Great Lakes. The Waukesha area's need for a b... Continued...

Frequent fire miles (MN)
As wildfires in the Boundary Waters go, the Alpine Lake fire is a wimp. At under 1,400 acres, it pales next to the nearby 1995 Sag Corridor fire, which burned 12,000 acres, and even the 1976 Roy Lake fire, which covered some of the same ground as the Alpine fire. This month's fire wouldn't eve... Continued...

Scientists Try to Save Rare and Randy Warbler
Europe's rarest songbird is facing extinction, despite being the most promiscuous and energetic lover in the avian world, and concerned scientists are looking urgently for ways to save it. The male aquatic warbler is described as "continuously ready to mate" and able to indulge in record-breaking... Continued...

Feds Cut Land for California Tiger Salamander
Federal wildlife officials said Tuesday that they would cut by nearly half the amount of land set aside for the California tiger salamander, saying it would be too costly to restrict development in those areas to protect the threatened amphibian. Home builders applauded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife... Continued...

Two New Bird Species Identifed in Colombia
Two new species of birds called tapaculos have been identified in the mountains of Colombia, a conservation group said Tuesday. The shy, dark-colored birds, which live in thick forest, are mostly identified by their songs and it was their calls that distinguished the two new species, BirdLife Int... Continued...

Forest Service Admits 'Serious' Mistake in Logging Rare Tree Preserve (OR)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Forest Service admitted Wednesday to making a "serious" mistake that allowed the logging of 17 acres inside a rare tree reserve as part of the salvage harvest of timber burned by a fire in 2002. The logging inside the 350-acre Babyfoot Lake Botanical Area, created in 1966 ... Continued...

Arborists prepare for `horrifying potential' of tree-eating pests (PA)
In the beady eyes of two invasive insects, the Philadelphia region would be a bacchanal - an orgy of fine food and wild sex amongst the maples, sycamores, birches and ashes that shade the city and suburbs. Were the Asian longhorned beetle and the emerald ash borer to converge here, potentially ha... Continued...

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to streams (NM)
It began as an idea scribbled on a cocktail napkin. A decade later, that idea in action has revived the once packed-down, strippedbare and eroded streambanks along the popular Rio Cebolla, Rio Guadalupe and Rio de Las Vacas in the Jemez Mountains. Wetlands are restored; fences keep vehicles off ... Continued...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Doyle unveils green energy, land plans (WI)
Gov. Jim Doyle proposed creating new protections for Wisconsin waterways, restoring the state's natural resources watchdog and forming energy standards focusing on renewable resources as part of an environmental agenda he unveiled Thursday. Doyle, a Democrat, said the proposal was meant to preser... Continued...