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Canada lynx and trumpeter swans could be advertisements for threatened wildlife species in Minnesota. But a new study reminds people not to ignore crystal darters and slender madtoms.

A variety of Web sites are gathering names and contact information in an attempt to link landowners with timber on the ground with people who can help them salvage it. Glenn Hughes, Mississippi State University Extension Service forester, said Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the standing timber in South Mississippi, and landowners are working now to salvage what they can.

Merve Wilkinson's directions to his home are direct: Leave the Trans-Canada Highway at old Cedar Road, drive uphill before turning right at the Chuckwagon Market, go past Yellow Point Lodge, then hang a left onto Crane Road. "You'll see a green gate," he advises. "It's always open."

The danger of a 16,000-acre forest in southeast Ohio being sold to developers or broken up into small private plots has state officials so worried they want to buy it.

Some 13 million hectares of forests are destroyed around the world each year, an area the size of Greece, although the net loss of trees has finally slowed thanks mainly to new plantations, the United Nations said on Monday.