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From POLEX: CIFOR’s Forest Policy Expert Listserver You can make a fortune logging illegally. It is usually much cheaper to pay bribes than to make serious management plans, pay taxes and royalties, and harvest fewer logs.

From Science Daily Relief from soaring prices at the gas pump could come in the form of corncobs, cornstalks, switchgrass and other types of biomass, according to a joint feasibility study for the departments of Agriculture and Energy.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, by Doug Smith Concerned that an exploding cormorant population is responsible for a decline in walleye numbers on Leech Lake -- one of Minnesota's most popular angling destinations -- federal sharpshooters this week will begin killing up to 80 percent of the 5,000 adult cormorants nesting there.

From the The News Tribune, by Marcelene Edwards Twenty-five years ago, the Weyerhaeuser Co. wanted to keep cutting trees on the flanks of rumbling, spitting Mount St. Helens. But to play it safe, the company moved loggers 15 miles from the mountain -- and thought that would be far enough.

From the Petosky News Review, by Fred Gray U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has told Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm that the federal government can provide no additional emergency financial aid to fight the emerald ash borer (EAB), at least until 2006 federal budget allocations have been made next fall.

The Women's Environmental Institute is looking for six student interns to work on the WEI CSA farm over the summer and into the early apple harvest. The interns will work a total of ten hours on a Friday-Saturday schedule twice a month for a total of twenty hours a month. Each intern must attend a two

New Delhi, April 28 -- Increasingly, Democrats and Republicans in the US are speaking with one voice in pushing for tough action on the massive trade deficit with China. In their eyes, China is more a threat - particularly as an economic competitor - than an emerging partner.