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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.

A wildfire burning through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has scorched more than 1,330 acres of forest in northeastern Minnesota and cost about $857,000 to fight, officials said Friday.

The attack on the ground and in the air continued unabated Wednesday against the Alpine Lake fire, the largest wildfire the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has seen in a decade. Ground crews continued to stretch hose and sprinkler systems along two remote canoe portages and etch out fire lines on the fire's western and northeastern fronts.

America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a forestry researcher will report today at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada.

A federal appeals court today struck down a management plan that allows logging on roadless areas in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, handing environmentalists a victory in a long-running battle over wild lands in the world's largest intact temperate rain forest.

A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today.

A largely unmanaged forest in Mexico holds lessons for improving the health of California wildlands, according to University of California, Berkeley fire science professor Scott Stephens.

America's national forests are becoming islands of green that are increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, according to a new study. Suburban growth threatens to cut off natural corridors, or "wild highways," that allow plants and animals to move from one wild patch to another.