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Northern Ireland people want to see more trees grown in the province, a new survey has revealed. But according to Farm Minister Jeff Rooker, public awareness of forestry-related issues and activities is relatively low, when compared to the rest of the UK.

As money managers seek homes for today's profusion of investment capital, some are straying far from the canyons of Wall Street. Specifically, into the woods.

NELL NEWMAN is willowy, with prematurely white hair that falls several inches past her slender shoulders. The resemblance to her famed parents isn't immediately discernible, but the more she smiles and talks, the more you see the Joanne Woodward-Paul Newman connection.

The Bush administration has rejected Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski's petition to amend its new roadless forests rule to give states greater certainty that logging can be kept out of undeveloped areas to protect clean water and wildlife habitat.

A proposal to shift a $500 million Forest Service fund reserve from firefighting to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts might not be a complete catastrophe. But the prudence of moving money from one natural disaster to another depends completely on the whim of Mother Nature.

Greenpeace International campaigners scaled the anchor chains and ropes on the side of the ship and positioned small boats around the vessel to prevent it leaving the mill in northwest Finland. "It's a crime that thousand-year-old ancient forests end up as glossy magazines on coffee tables across Europe," activist Matti Liimatainen said.

Under a damp awning of yellowing bigleaf maples, Judith Starbuck is laying waste to a patch of English ivy. A vine at a time, she rips and tugs at the menace creeping through Madrona Woods. Starbuck and a small band of mud-stained volunteers are reclaiming these woods, saving native trees and shrubs from the stranglehold of fast-growing foreign invaders.

The economic benefits of protecting a rainforest reserve outweigh the costs of preserving it, says University of Alberta research--the first of its kind to have conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the conservation of species diversity.