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HUNTER MOUNTAIN WILD FOREST, N.Y., So far this summer, Wing Goodale and his boss, David C. Evers, have used decoys and recorded bird calls to lure about 150 thrushes, warblers and other wild songbirds into nets here and in several others parts of New York City's Catskill Mountain Watershed to determine what is happening to the drinking water.

Dressed in red and equipped with a black bag containing a water bottle and a book, Karen Bauernschmidt left her home Saturday morning prepared to silently protest by sitting in a tree for as long as it took to get her questions about trees answered. Five hours later she was home.

The energy bill so proudly signed into law the other day by President Bush is 1,724 pages long. But the gist of it can be found on an old, not-so-humorous bumper sticker: "Avoid hangovers. Stay drunk."

In a sort of ecological trade-off, conservationists headed into the Arkansas woods Thursday to kill dozens of trees in hopes of helping the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that up until recently was feared extinct.

The government says half your diet should be fruits and vegetables, but it doesn't subsidize the farmers who grow them. Instead, half of all federal agriculture subsidies go to grain farmers, whose crops feed animals for meat, milk and eggs and become cheap ingredients in processed food. What's wrong with that?

Crews battling a fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildnerness are preparing this afternoon to light several small fires around the perimeter line of a wildfire that threatens the Gunflint Trail.

Worldwide, amphibians are dying. And University of Pittsburgh ecologist Rick Relyea said he knows one way to kill them: Spray them with a little Roundup, the best-selling weed killer from St. Louis-based Monsanto.