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Up on the slopes of Mount Hood, legions of trees are in their death throes.

The Fox River in Brown County is far more contaminated with possible cancer-causing chemicals than first estimated by regulators in 2003, officials said. The 6.2 million cubic yards of sediment with polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations, or PCBs, are already enough to make it the largest known sediment cleanup ever attempted in North America.

A master plan for Wisconsin's largest state forest was approved by the Natural Resources Board without an 8- to 10-mile all-terrain vehicle trail that had been proposed for it. The plan approved Wednesday is to guide operations of the 225,000-acre Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest for the next 15 years.

BOSTON, Oxfam America welcomes McDonald's announcement today that it will be serving Fair Trade Certified(tm) coffee in 658 of its restaurants in New England and Albany, N.Y. Starting Nov. 1, participating locations will be switching 100 percent of their coffee products over to Fair Trade Certified(tm) organic coffee from Newman's Own Organics, roasted by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

Seyoum Goitom, inventor and father of six, stood in his workshop in Eritrea, explaining his passion for mechanics, while young girls herded goats outside and butterflies wobbled in the warmth. Goitom has so far built a biscuit maker, welding machine and lawnmower from recycled parts. Now he is looking at a much bigger and possibly more significant project.

The U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, when it failed to go through a public process to consider the dangers of fire retardant drops that have killed thousands of fish, a judge has ruled.

(Original publish date 10/22/05) Weyerhaeuser posted a 52 percent drop in earnings yesterday and announced plans to close mills in Aberdeen and nearby Cosmopolis, Grays Harbor County, to become more profitable.