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From Reuters News Service via the Houston Chronicle BELEM, Brazil -- A 74-year-old American nun was shot to death early today in Brazil's Amazon rain forest where she worked to defend human rights and the environment despite frequent death threats, federal police said.

From the Duluth News Tribune, by John Meyers Four years into a seven-year plan to burn wind-toppled trees in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the U.S. Forest Service has fallen well behind its plan to remove dead wood that could fuel catastrophic fires.

From New World COmmunications via Checkbiotech.org, By Harvey Black MADISON, Wisconsin - At an abandoned hat factory in Danbury, Conn., scientists are testing genetically engineered trees to see if they can be used to remove toxic mercury from the ground.

From Knight Ridder News via Duluth News Tribune, by Robert Boyd The United States has gained 10 million acres of forest since 1990, but the Forest Service says population growth will lead to another decline by 2050. -----------------

From Agence France Presse via the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Germany is looking to messier energy sources to produce cleaner fuel, showing the world that it is possible use all-natural plant and animal products to run cars and heat homes.

From Oregon Public Radio, By Ley Garnett

From the Independent, Daryl Gadbow MISSOULA (LEE) - On Feb. 7, 2002, the U.S. Forest Service, the timber industry and seven conservation groups negotiated a landmark settlement of a lawsuit challenging the Bitterroot National Forest's Burned Area Recovery plan.

In association with Clark Forestry, Inc. of Baraboo, WI, Native Thumb Environmental Consulting will likely be hiring one or two field botanists for rare plants surveys in national forests in the upper Midwest.