The chief of the U.S. Forest Service has backed new long-term management plans for the Superior and Chippewa National Forests in Minnesota, rejecting appeals from environmental and industry groups.
The tugging for money from the next multibillion-dollar federal farm bill is already underway, and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns got to a hear a good share of it Friday in Fresno.
Forest Service officials have scaled back their assessment of how much recreation on national forest land contributes to the American economy, concluding that these activities generate just a tenth of what the Clinton administration estimated.
A coalition of leading environmental NGOs [1], today, attacked the UK Government's decision to water down its standards for sustainable timber, by allowing government departments to buy wood from forest certification schemes that approve destructive logging practices.
OSLO, Norway - Salmon swim north into Arctic seas, locusts plague northern Italy and two heat-loving bee-eater birds nest in a hedge in Britain.
Signs of global warming fed by greenhouse gases produced by human activity, or just summertime oddities?
If the cool breeze and colorful grasslands of this state wildlife preserve weren't enough to attract birds both large and small, they've also got numerous dead trees to hang out on, hunt from, and hollow out.
Valley's eyes on Tempe effort after U.S. ruling
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Tempe this week will try to convince a judge that the city should be allowed to take immediate possession of land from 13 property owners to build a $200 million mall.
Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said Wednesday that he thinks senators will push for a tighter cap on farm payments this fall, which could stimulate political good will among urban lawmakers for the next farm bill.
Sen. Chuck Grassley talks about federal farm policy problems during the Agricultural Policy Summit at Iowa State University on Wednesday.
