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Canada is to protect a vast swath of intact temperate rainforest along its Pacific coast, under an agreement unveiled yesterday between the British Columbia government, local indigenous peoples, environmental groups and major logging companies.

A state-level forestry park stretching along the coastline of Hainan Province, China's southernmost island, has opened to visitors recently.

When sophomore Brandi Petitt attended the first class of the Native American Forestry course being taught for the first time this spring, she seriously considered dropping it.

At meetings on Capitol Hill Tuesday, House staff members began to try to sort out who is responsible for addressing concerns over mistreatment of Latino forest workers. The most recent round of concerns were raised by California Rep. Joe Baca, D-Rialto, who has asked the House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Dairy, Nutrition and Forestry to investigate the matter.

A federal agency has suspended funding for the final year of a study out of Oregon State University that raised questions about whether logging is the best way to restore national forests burned by wildfires, further inflaming a debate over how to treat the millions of acres of national forest that burn each year.

Associated Press | February 7, 2006 The World Trade Organization is expected to release its preliminary decision Tuesday on a legal complaint brought by the United States, Canada and Argentina over an EU moratorium on approval of new biotech foods.

Ending a decade-long environmental battle once dubbed the "War of the Woods," British Columbia is set to announce Tuesday the creation of a park twice the size of Yellowstone along a vast coastal swath where grizzly bears and wolves now prowl under thousand-year-old cedar trees.

Giant sequoia trees are tough, long-lived organisms. Their survival strategy, perfected over millions of years, is to live for dozens of centuries. Most everyone knows this, but much of what the trees pursue to achieve this goal is missed by many who visit the groves.