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LIBBY - For the second time in a month, a U.S. Forest Service appeals adjudicator has surprised officials on the Kootenai National Forest, overturning timber sales because of wildlife concerns. "It is unusual," forest supervisor Bob Castaneda said Wednesday. "We have a very high rate of success with being upheld during appeal review."

Mushrooms growing in the old-growth forests of the Northwest could help in the fight against bioterrorism.

On the eve of an expected announcement of significant Ontario government measures to assist the forestry industry, CPAWS is asking the provincial and federal governments to earmark any spending in this area for strategies that will benefit northern communities, improve environmental performance and build a competitive forest sector.

SAO PAULO - Ethanol export contracts from Brazil are looking more like contracts for other goods, such as sugar, soy and oil -- a sign that the renewable fuel may be on its way to becoming a world commodity.

WASHINGTON- Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton said Tuesday that after the two destructive gulf hurricanes that battered the nation's energy heartland, the Bush administration would intensify its push to expand energy development on public lands including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in the nation's coastal waters.

BOZEMAN, Mont. - By all accounts the turnaround of the Yellowstone grizzly is an all-too-rare success story of the Endangered Species Act. After dwindling to 200 or so by the 1970's, the number of the big bears in the mountains and grassy meadows around Yellowstone National Park has grown to more than 600, thanks to the federal protections given to the species in 1975.

The good old days of ruffed grouse hunting may never be seen again in the north woods. Some biologists believe that grouse hunters in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin may never again see the kind of grouse populations that occurred 40 and 50 years ago.