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A Duke University study has found that maturing stands of pines exposed to the higher levels of carbon dioxide expected by mid-century produce more needles than those absorbing today's levels of the gas, even under drought conditions. However, the study also found that lack of soil nutrients may impose limitations in many forests.

For more than 80 summers, generations of young campers have headed to Camp Namanu to frolic in the Sandy River, ride horseback through forests of Douglas fir and hike along trails used by Roosevelt elk and black-tailed deer. The camp's idyllic landscape, spread across 545 mostly wooded acres on the western slope of Mt. Hood, is its most valuable asset.

Meat producers and buyers are slowly moving away from the routine use of antibiotics on farms and in feedlots, a welcome change that should be helped by the passage of federal legislation to require the phase out the use of most of these drugs.

The federal government and the commercial farming industry are beginning to take action to protect the effectiveness of antibiotics in people by restricting their use in farm animals.

Friday, August 19, 2005 By RUSS HENDERSON, Staff Reporter The same antibiotics that prompted officials to ban the Vietnamese fish basa in Alabama and Louisiana have been commonly, and legally, used in U.S. poultry production for about a decade, federal officials said Thursday.

In the solidly Republican state of Nebraska, voters are expressing deep anxiety about rising gasoline prices and the war in Iraq, a possible early warning sign for President George W. Bush in one of his most reliable strongholds.

Climate change is to blame for alterations in the number and distribution of birds in Britain, and more changes are expected, according to a report published Friday. Milder winters have pushed bird populations eastward and could result in new bird species being found in Britain, The State of U.K. Birds 2004 report found.