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It was never my intention to own a forest. I blame it on my mother-in-law. Sixteen years ago, my wife, Amy, and I, at her mother's urging, searched for a small house to buy instead of dumping more money into the extortionate rents in our Montana university town.

Helicopters are hoisting dead trees out of the San Bernardino National Forest to ease the danger of wildfires, a method that lessens environmental damage and allows timber removal in areas too steep for logging vehicles.

EDMONTON -- Alberta will wrap up its aggressive summer campaign against the spread of the destructive mountain pine beetle by burning a forested valley northwest of Jasper.

Firefighters have battled blazes on nearly 4 million acres of public and private land so far this year -- and federal officials are on track to deliberately burn 2.5 million more. This is not a case of rampant arson.

Nearly 150 firefighters from several Midwestern states began soaking the trails and brush of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness today in hopes of containing a fire that threatens part of the Gunflint Trail northwest of Grand Marais.

They may be doing it to impress the girls, but the mating ritual of grey squirrels that tear bark off trees is not impressing conservationists who monitor ancient woodland in the Forest of Dean, Glos. The squirrels have caused unprecedented damage in the forest this summer, apparently because of their hormones.

Amid rows and acres of conventional crop lines lies a corner of variety and color. It's Cornercopia, a small, student-run organic farm on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus.

Senegal is pushing to plant a "Great Green Wall" of trees stretching for nearly 7,000 km (4,375 miles), from Dakar to Djibouti, to stop the relentless advance of the Sahara desert.