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DOVER-FOXCROFT - He's known to local youngsters as the "tree man," and that name suits Stephen Law of Dover-Foxcroft just fine. Law, 79, is spending his retirement teaching youngsters about the value of trees and the need for a sustainable forest.

THE forests have won a reprieve, and the people can breathe easier. With a comprehensive forest management legislation now in place, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) is on track to secure the future of the region's forests for the benefit of generations to come.

The Forest Service has suspended the use of so-called categorical exclusions that allowed timber projects to bypass environmental reviews after a federal judge ruled those projects should be open to public comment and appeal.

MCCLOUD - The mile-high creeks start small enough to jump across, draining white fir and cedar forests beneath 14,179-foot Mount Shasta. Moving south, they join streams that flow into the Sacramento and Fall rivers that finally pause in the massive reservoir behind Shasta Dam.

The Monarch is the world's only migrating butterfly. Each year tens of millions of these fragile insects make a round-trip journey across North America to Mexico and back. Now a group of humans have embarked on a bold mission to track the Monarch's migration and help protect the insect and its habitat.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Conservative property rights activist Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, won a key vote Thursday in what could become the first major overhaul of the 32-year-old federal law that seeks to bring endangered plants and animals back from the brink of extinction.

What's an applied research institute founded to create jobs doing studying moose in national parks and lynx in national forests? Geri Niemi cringes a bit when he hears that question. Niemi, who since 1988 has headed the Center for Water and the Environment at UMD's Natural Resources Research Institute, says the question misses a key point.

The Heiltsuk First Nation is to release a landmark resource-use plan today, declaring their intention to manage 16,770 square kilometres of forests in the heart of British Columbia's central coast.