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2004 forest news archives
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Bush administration assault on forest

• New forest planning rules to be reviewed (12/30/04)
• Holiday gift for timber industry (12/27/04)
• New rule for forest planning (12/23/04)
• New sales reignite timber battles (12/12/04)
• Panel sees good, bad in overhaul plan (12/11/04)
• Attention Mr. Governor: No more forest roads (11/27/04)
• A firestorm over fireproofing (12/8/04)
• California will sue to block Sierra national forest plan (11/19/04)

• Alaska drilling gets tentative OK (10/22/04)
• Judge ends ban on snowmobiles (10/15/04)
• Environment clearly divides Bush and Kerry (10/7/04)
• Plans to drill Wyoming forest for oil on hold (9/16/04)
• GAO report says Forest Service PR campaign for Sierra plan legal (9/14/04)

• Endangered seabird could lose protection (9/2/04)
• Keep roadless lands free of industry inroads (8/19/04)
• Bush administration eases pesticide reviews for endangered species (7/29/04)
• Dems block Bush nominee for the Ninth Circuit court (7/22/04)
• Bush opens gates to more logging (7/13/04)
• U.S. to open more forests to logging (7/13/04)
• Opt-in plan proposed for roadless forests (7/2/04)
• Burning a forest to save it (5/14/04)
• Bush team sued over owl status (5/12/04)
• Kerry blasts Bush's record on protecting environment (4/21/04)
• Report condemned as one-sided (4/17/04)
• Bush accord could revive timber wars (4/12/04)
• Science and policy– It's an issue of trust (4/4/04)
• Science adviser rebuffs critics (4/3/04)
• Congressmen want probe of PR spending (4/2/04)
• Forest promotions deal questioned (4/1/04)
• Hostile to the environment (3/24/04)
• Park Service tried to conceal service cuts, files show (3/18/04)
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Dems attack PR for tree plan (3/11/04)



General forest news

• Spawner's comeback (11/27/04)
• Farmers may win dispute on water, fish (12/8/04)
• Wilderness park fees extended for decade (12/3/04)
• Slow-fading salmon (12/2/04)
• Salmon habitats face cuts (12/1/04)
• Firefighter accused of setting 3 wildfires (11/25/04)
• Mexican tropical forest to be preserved in $3 million deal (11/12/04)
• Bark beetle numbers appear to drop (10/5/04)
• Officials demand evacuation of LA area forest (10/4/04)
• Lifetime hunt for world's biggest tree (10/3/04)
• New state agency to guard Sierra (9/24/04)
• Mistrial in pepper spray suit: Jurors deadlock 6-2 in favor of demonstrators (9/23/04)
• Activists recount pepper-spray agony (9/16/04)
• Retrial opens on using pepper spray on protesters' eyes (9/10/04)
• Ecuador free-for-all threatens tribes, trees: weak government lets loggers prevail (9/3/04)
• Protected status urged for spotted owl (9/1/04)
• Judge blocks post-fire timber sale, says hazard would grow (8/24/04)
• Oak disease found in Golden Gate Park (8/20/04)
• New push for consensus on major salmon stream (8/16/04)
• State boards may face demise (8/16/04)
• Proposals would fast-track approval of logging, oil refinery construction (8/16/04)
• Oak-killing disease found on a tree in New York state (7/28/04)
• Crusade to save a dying forest (7/6/04)
• Fiscal year begins without new budget (7/1/04)
• Logging dispute to go to court (6/18/04)
• Builder immunity rule halted (6/11/04)
• Oak death's genes decoded (6/10/04)
• Justices to decide on county logging rules (6/10/04)
• When butterflies and tourists leave, the loggers move in (6/6/04)
• Cal biologist solves mystery of disappearing Sierra frogs (5/13/04)
• Loud call for more money to prevent fires (5/12/04)
• Small Bay Area fires seen as early warning (5/11/04)
• New England logging tradition close to toppling (5/9/04)
• Conditions ripe for bad fire season (5/6/04)
• City Council bans fast-growing trees (5/5/04)
• Early, vicious start to fire season (5/5/04)
• SoCal authorities prepare for fire season amid record heat (5/2/04)
• Climate change's effects strikingly noticeable in West (5/2/04)
• Oak fungus spreads (4/29/04)
• FBI to pay $2 million in Earth First suit (4/23/04)
• Unimpeded views vs. tall trees (4/19/04)
• Rose linked to killer of oaks (4/2/04)
• Logging protest retrial to stay in San Francisco (3/23/04)
• Logging companies tout big plans for big trees (3/22/04)

• Nursery reports oak disease (3/11/04)
• U.S. increases tree harvest for fire prevention in Sierra (1/23/04)
• Governor's budget would slash funds to add protected areas (1/14/04)
• Preserving forests, the nation's "water factories." (1/01/04)

Pacific Lumber logging

• Voters reject DA recall (3/03/04)

• Timber report called faulty (2/05/04)


General environmental news

• Lake Tahoe warming mirrors world trend (12/21/04)
• S.F. nonprofit a lean, green, fighting machine (12/17/04)
• 3 nominated to key state agencies (12/17/04)
• Shrinking glaciers evidence of global warming (12/17/04)
• Tree hater has city stumped (12/16/04)
• 2004 ranks 4th on list of warmest measured (12/15/04)
• U.S., Arctic nations at odds on warming (11/25/04)
• Congress OKs Nevada land, water bill (11/18/04)
• 13 countries sign on to methane reuse plan (11/17/04)
• Warming threatens Mt. Everest, group says (11/16/04)
• A witness to global warming
• Governor picks ex-state EPA chief for Cabinet post (11/6/04)
• U.S. seeks to derail climate report (11/5/04)
• Russia paves way for treaty on emissions to take effect (11/6/04)
• Russia's upper house of parliament ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change (10/28/04)
• Russia moves closer to OK of Kyoto pact (10/24/04)
• River gets salmon born to be wild (10/21/04)
• Amphibian species imperiled worldwide (10/15/04)
• Kenyan woman wins peace prize (10/9/04)
• Russian Cabinet approves treaty on global warming (10/1/04)
• Researchers detect rising carbon dioxide levels over Antarctica (9/29/04)
• Global warming creeps up on S.F. (9/27/04)
• Good going, gov (9/27/04)
• Air board's tough smog rules defy auto industry (9/26/04)
• Russia set to OK Kyoto Protocol (9/24/04)
• Glaciers in Antarctica melting twice as fast as in 1990s, study finds (9/24/04)
• Fossils show climate influencing evolution (9/20/04)
• Scientists' ethics bill vetoed by governor (9/16/04)
• 'Cool gray city' projected to turn murderously hot (9/14/04)
• Trout colony thriving in urbanized streams (9/9/04)
• How green is the governor? (9/7/04)
• Into the wilds (9/3/04)
• Wilderness Act turns 40, and people are still arguing about it (9/3/04)
• World-renowned paleontologist presses for 'green California' (9/1/04)
• U.S. report on warming puts blame on humans (8/26/04)
• Battle royal over monarch habitat (8/23/04)
• Hupa Indians battle to reclaim Trinity River (8/22/04)
• Report warns of flooding (8/18/04)
• Global warming clouds the future (8/18/04)
• Ebbing glaciers may make quakes likelier (8/16/04)
• U.S. set to announce methane agreement (7/28/04)
• Budget deal rests on hefty deficit, heavy borrowing (7/28/04)
• Proposed gold mine threatens river refuge (7/26/04)
• Lawmakers push for wilderness expansion (7/23/04)
• House panel passes measures to alter Endangered Species Act (7/22/05)
• Poll says foul air, gasoline prices grab Californians (7/22/04)
• Global warming lawsuit accuses 5 power plants (7/22/04)
• Compound in smoke boosts plant growth (7/19/04)
• Arctic Ocean census races global warming (7/19/04)

• Save the natives from the invaders (7/5/04)
• Gauging how earth breathes (7/4/04)
• Western drought worst in 500 years (6/18/04)
• Climate really is changing, scientists say (6/16/04)
• State seeks 30 percent cut in tailpipe emissions (6/15/04)

• World Bank on horns of dilemma (6/6/04)
• An environmental link between the U.N. and S.F. (6/4/04)
• Getting warmer... A movie on climate change is a warning (5/30/04)
• National parks cut services for visitors (5/28/04)
• Earthshine could shed light on global warming (5/28/04)
• Preserving California's Wild Things: Land use key in saving big cats (5/24/04)
• Preserving California's Wild Things: Demise of California's wildlife a legacy of
this generation (5/24/04)

• Storm over range lands continues in claims court (5/5/04)
• Species Act allies Cardoza with GOP (5/4/04)
• Lawmaker's agenda just part of his nature (5/4/04)
• Warming winters, earlier springs shrink vital mountain snowpacks (5/1/04)
• Hatchery-bred fish to be part of wild salmon count (4/29/04)
• Economic future depends on healthy environment (4/22/04)
• EPA offers plan to help clean national parks' air (4/17/04)
• National parks are hamstrung by shrinking budgets (4/16/04)
• Yosemite violates new federal smog standards (4/15/04)
• At least 8 famous parks sullied by dirty air, federal officials say (4/8/04)
• A beauty of a land deal (4/7/04)
• Monumental deal for PG&E land (4/2/04)
• Quarantine slapped on state's nurseries (3/27/04)
• Blight on state's nurseries (3/24/04)



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