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Bush administration assault on forest

• Bush floating new climate proposal (4/14/08)
• Bush intervention led EPA to scale back ozone limits (3/14/08)
• Waxman demands EPA documents (3/11/08)
• Judge: Ag secretary avoids jail time (2/28/08)
• Agency accused of failing to protect coho (2/26/08)
• Agriculture chief's priority: avoid jail (2/23/08)
• Bush wants to beef up Earth monitoring (2/4/08)
• Lawmakers complain Bush's budget cuts fire prevention money (2/4/08)
• Group cites oil leases in U.S. delay in rating polar bear's status (1/8/08)

Forest Service

• Feinstein criticizes Forest Service firefighting vacancies report (4/10/08)
• Government abandons appeal of forest management ruling (1/8/08)

National Parks

Global Warming

California

• Climate change may alter bay growth patterns (4/18/08)
• Global warming hitting hardest in the West (4/6/08)
• California joins lawsuit against EPA (4/2/08)
• Warming felt more in western U.S. (3/28/08)
• Warming affects trees, streams in the West (3/27/08)
• Air board to revisit rules on zero-emissions (3/26/08)
• Study: Warming may threaten Lake Tahoe (3/25/08)
• State scrambles to fund global warming fight (3/4/08)
• EPA'sown study argues for California waiver (3/3/08)
• Memo warned: EPA chief's credibility at risk (2/27/08)
• Pollution politics (2/27/08)
• PG&E invests to restore forests, offset carbon emissions (2/26/08)
• Internal transcripts show EPA chief Johnson faced dilemma (2/26/08)
• Humboldt forest lands first carbon offset deal under new regs (2/11/08)
• No targets reached at climate conference (2/1/08)
• Water managers told: Plan now for crisis (2/1/08)
• Senate bill requires textbooks to teach global warming (1/31/08)
• Study: Much of West's climate-related water trends human-caused (1/31/08)
• Salmon arrive in record low numbers (1/30/08)
• Address climate change through land use (1/29/08)
• State joins petition to cut non-road emissions (1/29/08)
• EPA chief sits and takes his punishment (1/25/08)
• Behind EPA's rejection of state rules on emissions (1/25/08)
• Salmon facing peril of climate change (1/20/08)
• EPA won't give details on denying emissions waiver (1/19/08)
• Global warming goes to court (1/4/08)

U.S.

• Bush's slow thaw (4/18/08)
• 18 states commit to take action on climate change (4/18/08)
• Bush calls for reduction in emissions (4/17/08)
• Govs to gather to address global warming (4/14/08)
• EPA advisers slam new smog rule (4/11/08)
• Climate change brings health risks (4/10/08)
• Hunters worry about global warming (4/10/08)
• Gore looking to turn idle fans into activists (4/1/08)
• Spring is getting ahead of itself (3/20/08)
• Southern Baptists call for climate care (3/9/08)
• Skeptics of global warming meet in New York (3/5/08)
• EPA unions quit management cooperation pact (3/4/08)
• Governors try to advance clean energy (2/22/08)
• Cities step up tree planting (2/20/08)
• Better biofuels before more biofuels (2/13/08)
• The Senate's changing climate (2/18/08)
• Ethanol from corn may worsen warming (2/8/08)
• Texas is biggest carbon polluter (1/16/08)
• To beat climate change, breaking the mold isn't enough (1/13/08)

International

• WHO: Climate change threatens millions (4/7/08)
• Indigenous groups seek role in shaping climate policy (4/7/08)
• Climate talks open with rancor (4/1/08)
• Despite hot air, climate goals on ice (3/30/08)
• Western Antarctic ice chunk collapses (3/25/08)
• Arctic ice thinning, glacier melting accelerates (3/19/08)
• Power plant CO2 increases by 3 percent (3/18/08)
• Letting nature clear the air (3/17/08)
• EU tells U.S., China to cut emissions (3/15/08)
• Brazil hosts climate change forum (2/20/08)
• Scientists blame ocean dead zones on climate change (2/20/08)
• UN gathering to address climate change (2/11/08)
• Warmer Atlantic worsens hurricanes (1/30/08)
• Brazil to crack down on deforestation (1/24/08)
• UN warns of biofuel's environmental risk (1/23/08)
• Sweden to study belching cows (1/22/08)

California forest news

• Experts determine where Sudden Oak Death began (4/17/08)
• Southern California braces for worst fire season yet (4/18/08)
• Muir Woods celebrates a century of conservation (4/7/08)
• A win for redwoods (4/7/08)
• Off-roaders lose 1,000 miles of trail in new Eldorado plan (4/2/08)
• Clearcutting the history of forest destruction (3/31/08)
• Bohemian Club tries new tactic to log grove (3/28/08)
• It's true: Wolverine thriving near Tahoe (3/24/08)
• If wolverines are extinct in state, then what was that? (3/7/08)
• Getting clear with Sierra Pacific Industries (2/29/08)
• Bringing forests up to date (2/29/08)
• California sues over Forest Service plan (2/29/08)
• Getting clear with Sierra Pacific Industries (2/29/08)
• Purchase of a vast watershed protects pristine river (2/24/08)
• UC Berkeley dismantles parts of protesting tree-sitters' camp (2/19/08)
• Redwood wrangle: it may be a new day for logging (2/10/08)
• Forest Service studying loss of U.S. firefighters to Calif. force (2/12/08)
• Group files to list Pacific fisher as endangered (1/24/08)
• Muir Woods named to National Register of Historical Places (1/10/08)

General forest news

• Watching wolves, moose--and heat--on Michigan island (4/19/08)
• Groups plot trails animals use to link wilderness, park areas (3/21/08)
• Visitors encouraged to protect the forests (2/29/08)
• Helping urban trees to thrive (2/29/08)
• Threat to rainforest isn't easing (2/29/08)
• What you can do to save the forests (2/29/08)
• Tracking down lumber thieves (2/29/08)
• Home improvement (2/29/08)
• New hope for Madagascar's fading forests (2/24/08)
• China's snow storms destroy forests (2/18/08)
• 'Videophilia' cutting into outdoor activity (2/10/08)
• Who stole my trees? Kentucky fights back (2/18/08)
• Haiti's efforts to save trees falters (2/18/08)
• Habitat for Mexican spotted owl to stand (2/8/08)
• Weyerhauser swings to loss on housing (2/08/08)
• Judge says Northwest's marbled murrelet deserves continued protection (2/5/08)
• World launches talks on forests payoff (2/4/08)
• Destruction of world's forests speeding up (2/3/08)
• U.S. plan OKs logging in Alaska national forest (1/26/08)
• NJ beach town scraps rainforest deal (1/17/08)
• World Bank pledges to help save trees, then helps cut down Amazon rainforests (1/17/08)
• Garden clubs group tackles reforestation (1/15/08)
• Idaho roadless plan draws praise, criticism (1/14/08)

Pacific Lumber logging

• Which plan for the future of Pacific Lumber Co.? Redwoods at risk (4/3/08)
• Which plan for the future of Pacific Lumber Co.? Conservation, jobs and the environment (4/3/08)
• Nature Conservancy proposes plan to save troubled Pacific Lumber (1/16/08)

California environmental news

• Montara Mountain sale to Feds stalls—no money (4/9/08)
• Salmon will collapse unless we reverse underlying causes of decline (3/28/08)
• California desert left out of federal plan (3/23/08)
• Conservationists present plan to protect SoCal wildlife pathways (3/19/08)
• 1-Year ban on chinook salmon fishing proposed (3/15/08)
• California: Parks less than pristine (2/28/08)
• Parks we'll miss if the budget cuts go through (1/17/08)
• Nine state parks in Bay Area picked for closure (1/10/08)
• Park pain: Nature lovers fear losing treasured spots to budget cuts (1/12/08)

General environmental news

• The Goldman awards (4/15/08)
• Senate OKs massive public lands bill (4/11/08)
• Wolves to be removed from species list (2/21/08)
• Nature overrun (1/8/08)

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