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From the Register-Guard, By Diane Dietz A new pro-logging stance among some conservationists has opened a rift in Lane County's environmental community that is likely to emerge in public during the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference this week at the University of Oregon.

Americans who enjoy the occasional BLT or a ham on Easter Sunday probably don't consider the humble pig as a source of serious international trade disputes. But that's exactly what has developed since last fall, when the United States slapped a 14 percent penalty on piglets coming across the border from Canada.

From the Register-Guard, by Diane Dietz A question is humming around the edges of the Oregon Logging Conference this week, like the distant sound of a chain saw bucking firewood. Can a small-time logger find a new living with tiny trees - thinned from federal or private forests - that are most commonly chipped for pulp or burned on slash heaps?

From Reuters via Alternet, by Andrew Gray IN THE RAINFOREST OF SOUTHEASTERN CAMEROON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Standing in a clearing by a pile of recently felled tree trunks, Edmond Fouda says life as a woodcutter has changed in recent years. "Before, we went much faster," he said, clutching a bottle of water in the searing heat. "It was really wild compared to now."

From the Washington Post, By Blaine Harden HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- The nation's strongest laws against sprawl are beginning to buckle here in Oregon under pressure from an even stronger, voter-approved law that trumps growth restrictions with property rights.

From the Washington Post, via the Chicago Tribune, by Ellen Nakashima KALIMANTAN PROVINCE, Indonesia -- Three men in a canoe drew near swiftly from behind and overtook another canoe carrying a local environmentalist, Bastarin, on a river deep in the wilds of the Borneo rain forest.

From Environmental Defense

From Environmental Defense