From SFGate.com, by Glen Martin
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer waded into the Sierra Nevada logging fracas Tuesday, announcing a lawsuit against a U.S. Forest Service management plan for the region's 11 million acres of federal woodland that could increase the number of trees that are cut by up to four times what has been allowed.
From the Casper Star-Tribune, By Jeff Gearino
CHEYENNE -- More open spaces and fewer trees can help increase water yields on national forest lands in Wyoming, a U.S. Forest Service official told a state legislative committee Thursday.
From Terra Daily
A five-day conference on biodiversity wound up here [Paris] Friday with appeals to set up a scientific panel which would draw global attention to a feared mass die-out of wildlife.
From Terra Daily
The Philippine government said Tuesday it would file illegal logging complaints with the courts against 18 people, including three district officials, for logging which allegedly resulted in a series of deadly landslides in November.
From Reuters News Service via Planet Ark
NALUVEDAPATHY, India - Two years ago, drought-stricken farmers in a village on the southern coast of India walked into the Guinness Book of World Records by planting the highest number of saplings in a 24-hour period.
Even the shipping industry is acknowleding that there will likely be no increase in barge traffic on the Mississippi River.
This commentary was published in the Mississippi Monitor, January-March 2005
