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When sisters Marlene and Darlene Telfer decided it was time to harvest some of the timber in their Thames Centre wood lot, they opted for a kinder, eco-friendly approach to removing some of the towering hardwoods.

The shady corridors of Potlatch Corp.'s 17,000-acre poplar plantation near Boardman will soon echo with the sound of buzzing saws. Spokane-based Potlatch is building a sawmill "right in the middle" of the tree plantation along Interstate 84 east of Boardman, one that will employ up to 55 people when it opens in late 2006, company spokesman Michael Sullivan said Tuesday.

A logging company is suing two Canadian firms that once owned a pulp mill in northern Wisconsin for $23 million as part of an effort to reopen the mill that abruptly closed last week. Johnson Timber Co. of Hayward said it was notified Feb. 16 by SMART Papers LLC it was closing its Park Falls pulp mill immediately and the company would buy no more wood chips from Johnson.

Charles Frederick says the more than 300 acres of steep, rolling hollows he owns near this speck on the map in southwestern Illinois isn't of much intrinsic value beyond the wild turkey and deer he has hunted on it.

The U.S. Forest Service has trapped the first wolverine ever captured and fitted with a radio collar in the Pacific Northwest. Biologists are hoping to learn more about the habits and range of the elusive creatures known for their ferocious nature.

The line of figures trudging along beside their firewood-laden bicycles stretches to the the horizon on this dusty Nepalese back road.

Through the stand of red pines, you come to the ledge that opens onto the nearly 180-degree vista of the Sable Highlands, stretching wide across the horizon and up into pale clouds.