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With at least 40 fatalities reported so far this year, relatives of forestry workers who have died on the job in British Columbia are calling for action to make the province's logging camps a safer place to work. David Gramlich believes his brother might be alive today if workplace regulations in B.C. were tightened to prevent loggers from working alone in the bush.

There are two facts to get your head around when it comes to British Columbia's mountain pine beetle infestation: It's killed stands of lodgepole pine covering an area of north-central B.C. forest the size of New Brunswick with no end in sight. And government and the forest industry are in a race against time to log the dead and dying timber before it rots.

Apple growers could urge the Government to take an immediate case to the World Trade Organisation over the Australian import ban without waiting for an approval process that could take two years. Upset at the prospect of Australian quarantine officers "turning over every leaf" in orchards searching for diseases, they warn they may not wait for the full approval process.

The eco-conscious carnivore: a meat-lover's guide to making choices that maximize personal and planetary health; Healthy Appetites: savvy strategies for eating well By Dayna Macy "DO YOU WANT REGULAR GRASS-FED, OR ORGANIC?" asks the clerk behind the meat counter. It s winter and I've been craving a warming substantial food like brisket.

President Clinton's Roadless Area Conservation Rule protected 58 million acres nationwide. In Minnesota, some 65,000 acres were declared roadless, mostly in the Superior National Forest.

As projects go, this one was truly ground-breaking. For the last five years, volunteers from across the state collected seeds from native plants growing along local roads.

Two different factions of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are pooling their efforts in hopes of solving a common problem. The state's forestry and wildlife department are working to save Wisconsin forests from being picked clean by a hungrier, and more adaptable, herd of deer.