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From the AFP, via Yahoo News Despite alarming global deforestation rates, estimated at approximately 9.4 million hectares per year, a UN conference on forest preservation ended with the conference chairman calling the event a "failure."

From the Portland Business Journal via MSNBC.com, by Shelly Strom A local environmental activist organization wants to save the trees by logging them.

From the Associated Press via the Duluth News Tribune The ruling gives Great Lakes states a role in fighting the introduction of invasive species. A federal judge has granted motions for Great Lakes states to intervene in a lawsuit over whether ships without a permit can dump ballast water containing nonnative species.

From the Toledo Blade, by Tom Henry Lest there be any doubt that North America's billions of ash trees are imperiled by the deadly emerald ash borer, consider this: The government is establishing a national gene pool to help keep the shade trees from going extinct. And you can help.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune While Senate Republicans were evangelizing for up-or-down votes on judicial nominees, House Republicans were bending the rules to send a tax-saving challenge to timber subsidies into point-of-order oblivion. Once again, control of Congress and the White House wasn't sufficient to protect this party's agenda from open decisionmaking.

From The Guardian, UK, by Tim Radford in Krasnoyarsk Fires in the Siberian forests - the largest in the world and vital to the planet's health - have increased tenfold in the last 20 years and could again rage out of control this summer, Russian scientists warn.

From Greenbiz.com

From EDP News, by Tara Greaves First it was the decline of farmland birds, but now woodland birds are also in trouble - and more of a worry is that no one knows how to stop it. Human activity and Mother Nature seem to be conspiring to make it increasingly difficult for woodland birds to survive - and with two such great powers combining, the future does not bode well.