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Canada: Greenpeace Partners with Logging Industry
Greenpeace negotiates weak agreement that legitimizes continued old growth forest logging in exchange for vague promises of possible future protections

Regional Forester Nominates $90M Montana Proposal for Federal Restoration Funding
The forest restoration proposal was recently hammered out by a group of diverse interests in western Montana called the Southwestern Crown Collaborative

State May Buy Plum Creek Land with PPL Money
The state is looking at using a $40 million court-ordered windfall to buy thousands of acres of former Plum Creek Timber land from The Nature Conservancy

Enviro Groups Debate Climate Bill's Biomass Provisions
Environmentalists and the timber industry are taking their long-running battle over biomass energy into the Senate climate debate

New Plan Protects States Forests
Massachusetts is more than quadrupling the amount of forested state land that is off-limits to commercial logging and will sharply limit the use of clear-cutting, according to a plan announced yesterday

'Mechanical Treatment'
Tester forest bill's 'mechanical treatment' has different meanings for different people

Plum Creek decries Seeley Lake Regional Plan's slow process
The process has yet to reach the "nuts and bolts" stage, Landquist added, and she assured that Plum Creek's arguments would not only be heard but discussed

Planned 'Skyline Forest' $2.5 million closer to reality
This is the second Forest Legacy grant awarded to the Deschutes Land Trust, as they work to assemble the funding for an eventual purchase of Skyline Forest

Tongass timber wars simmer under forest planning process
Community leaders want more control over decisions made on public land

Forests Are Essential to a Healthy Outdoor Strategy
The American Forest Foundation issued the following statement on the White House Conference on America's Great Outdoors

Obama to take a grass-roots approach to conservation
President plans to direct the federal government to foster community-based efforts

Preserving the Tongass
Native tribes might well be owed concessions by the federal government, but not at the cost of a treasured public resource

Group hopes to change forest rules
Recent clearings prompt founding of Log Smarter

Missoula panel discusses tweaks to Tester's wilderness, jobs bill
The first major Montana wildlands legislation in decades hopes to clean up a lot of the loose ends created by the state's deadlocked wilderness debate

Forest, jobs bill up for discussion at UM
The Montana Forests Coalition will host a panel discussion and question-and-answer session on the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act

Mill-planning group seeks thinning approval
Conservationists, loggers, fire managers and a business that want to open a wood products mill are calling on the Coconino, Apache-Sitgreaves, Kaibab and Tonto national forests to approve thinning across 2.4 million acres

Residents' Views Mixed on Brunswick-area Federal Forest Proposal
Several hundred people packed a hearing Wednesday on a proposal to add nearly 200,000 acres in eastern Rensselaer County to a federal forest protection program

Buying Woodland for Fun and Profit
What's a growth asset, an inflation hedge and a tax dodge rolled into one? A forest.

Northwest Timberland Owner Reaps Cash By Logging Less
A timberland holding company in Portland has made a deal to sell carbon credits tied to a forest parcel it owns on Washington's Olympic Peninsula

Okanagan Indian Band announces end of logging in communitys drinking supply watersheds
In response to threats from Tolko to commence logging of the watershed that supplies the majority of the Okanagan Indian Band with their drinking water, the Okanagan Indian Band membership commenced a protective blockade of the Browns Creek watershed

Environmental group challenges logging plans
The Center for Biological Diversity accused the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection of illegally approving 15 timber harvest plans that improperly analyzed the effect of logging on the climate

Report slams 'conflicted' Forestry Tasmania
A report into Tasmania's forestry industry recommends a radical restructure of Forestry Tasmania and its bureaucratic processes

Los Altos conservation group buys hundreds of acres of local redwoods
California nonprofit makes offer logging company can't refuse

Trees and the Recession
If the forest industry fails, there's nothing standing in the way of a wholesale sell-off of forestland

Rehberg to solicit ideas for 'fixing' forest bill
Tester, a Democrat, introduced the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act in July, promoting it as a consensus-driven balance between preserving the environment and creating new jobs.

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