forest news archives 2007 _________________________________________
Bush administration assault on forest • Interior sued over endangered species decisions (12/27/07) • Reversal of endangered species rulings (11/28/07) • GOP pulls Craig's leadership posts; some say 'resign' (8/30/07) • Environmentalists win White House suit (8/22/07) • Judge: Bush official faces contempt (8/20/07) • Gov't spotted owl plan fails peer review (8/14/07) • Secret list reveals big firms' role in energy plan (7/19/07) • House panel to probe Cheney in fish die-off (7/17/07) • Bush administration calls for cutting spotted owl habitat (6/12/07) • Embattled Interior official resigns post (5/1/07) • Bush administration appeals roadless forest ruling (4/9/07) • Judge tosses new forest rules (3/31/07) • Official faulted for leaks, meddling (3/30/07) • Barbara Boxer: No to public lands sell-off (3/30/07) • White House seeks limits to Species Act (3/28/07) • Ex-White House official defends editing of climate papers (3/20/07) • Bush moves to tighten grip on federal agencies (1/30/07) • Bush's 9th Circuit pick withdraws his nomination (1/10/07) Forest Service • National forest access could soon be free again (12/26/07) • Voice of Forest Service kills ailing wife, then turns gun on dogs, self (11/7/07) • Judge holds jail threat over administration's top forest official (10/12/07) • Forest Service won't appeal logging ruling (6/12/07) • Montana woman to head Forest Service (1/12/07)
National Parks
• Park Service plans a greater outdoors (8/24/07) • Plan to match donations thrills park officials (2/9/07) • Big boost in funds for national parks – 'We're thrilled' (2/6/07) Global Warming
California
• Pelosi, Congress to scrutinize EPA rejection of California clean air standards (12/21/07) • In past, states were permitted to set own pollution rules (12/21/07) • Newsom plans to make city greener by creating carbon offset fund (12/19/07) • California's emissions control law upheld on first test in U.S. court (12/13/07) • Calif. environmentalists challenge energy efficiency standards (12/11/07) • Air board sets target to reduce emissions nearly 30 percent by 2020 (12/7/07) • Auto industry asks court to slam brakes on state's tough emission standards (11/20/07) • North American flora can't absorb continent's greenhouse gas output (11/15/07) • California fighting global warming with technology, greenbacks (11/14/07) • Californians most attuned in U.S. to threat of warming, poll finds (11/9/07) • State sues Bush administration over greenhouse-gas limits (11/8/07) • State air regulators want go-ahead on auto pollution reduction rules (11/5/07) • Wildfires emitted large amounts of greenhouse gases (11/1/07) • Salvaging the atmosphere (10/27/07) • Bay Area facing lifestyle changes to achieve greenhouse gas goals (10/27/07) • The real clouds in the skies (10/25/07) • Southern California blazes add to global warming (10/24/07) • Combatting Climate Change: Making a real difference with forests. New rules would bolster California's carbon market (10/17/07) • Combatting Climate Change: Making a difference with forests. State needs to encourage forest owners to participate (10/17/07) • Scientists gauge greenhouse gases above SF in warming experiment (10/15/07) • Proposed Bay Area gas tax would add to steep rate (10/6/07) • Follow California's lead on global warming, Schwarzenegger says (9/25/07) • How the White House worked to scuttle California's climate law (9/25/07) • Schwarzenegger tells UN to move on global warming (9/24/07) • Group urges state to back smart growth (9/21/07) • Clean air rules win a road test (9/16/07) • Is California the world's last, best hope against climate change? (9/15/07) • Californians hail emissions ruling (9/13/07) • State air board pledges quick start on greenhouse gas rules (9/7/07) • Emission plan from UC team (8/4/07) • Legislators fiddle while Earth warms (8/3/07) • Recruiting drive for other Cool Counties (8/2/07) • Proposed air board leader pleases Dems (7/17/07) • Dems, governor spar over road to clean air (7/17/07) • Ex-official of air board says pressure was intense (7/7/07) • Global warming and political heat (7/6/07) • Governor accused of playing politics on warming rules (7/6/07) • Fired air board head says he tried to keep integrity (6/30/07) • Transit Dept. memos show move against state gas law (6/29/07) • PG&E lets customers buy carbon offsets (6/28/07) • Fleeting Spring in the Sierra Valleys (6/5/07) • Sprawl clashes with warming in California (5/27/07) • California says no to coal, but world disagrees (5/28/07) • Governor to detail plans to curb fuel emissions (5/18/07) • Ruling helps California battle global warming (4/3/07) • Legislature flooded with bills about climate crisis (4/2/07) • Legislative debate focuses on implementing global warming law (3/26/07) • Sierra snowpack's comeback (3/3/07) • Democrats target truckers, utilities with global warming bills (2/23/07) • Where's the white stuff? (2/3/07) • State won't drop auto industry emissions suit (2/2/07) • New climate for global energy policy: Business will do the heavy lifting (2/2/07) • New climate for global energy policy: California is losing ground to rising seas (2/2/07) • Rainy season falls short so far (1/30/07) • State starts to work on plan to curb greenhouse gases (1/23/07) • Lack of rain no biggie yet, say scientists (1/23/07)
U.S. • Groups to sue for polar bear protection (1/9/07) • EPA emission rule – whither states rights? (12/21/07) • Getting around the EPA (12/21/07) • Staff at EPA supported California's attempt to reduce car emission (12/21/07) • EPA blocks California's bid to limit greenhouse gases from cars (12/20/07) • Democrats warn of denial by EPA (12/19/07) • Gore: U.S. blocking climate talks progress (12/13/07) • Pattern of distortion in review of climate science (12/11/07) • U.S. spurns push for emissions targets (12/11/07) • House OKs sweeping energy bill, but faces major changes in Senate (12/7/07) • Emissions bill heads to fight on Senate floor (12/6/07) • "Cap-and-trade" model eyed for reducing greenhouse gases (12/3/07) • Google to spend hundreds of millions to develop renewable energy (11/28/07) • Obama details plan to reduce emissions (10/8/07) • Bush's switch on climate criticized as lacking new policy (9/29/07) • His incomplete trip . . . (9/25/07) • Enacting federal climate legislation ends up being a long, hard slog (9/24/07) • Science panel finds fault with Bush climate program (9/14/07) • Governors keen on emissions caps, GOP leader says (9/13/07) • Washington needs to join climate effort (9/10/07) • The challenge of a generation (9/7/07) • Global warming threatens nation's public lands (9/7/07) • U.S. In for perilous weather as world warms, NASA says (8/31/07) • NOAA confirms human cause behind warming (8/29/07) • Six Western states and parts of Canada join to cut greenhouse gases (8/22/07) • Climate change, forest management result in bigger, hotter fires (8/9/07) • Gore: Polluters manipulate climate info (8/7/07) • Dramatic increase in tree deaths linked to warming (8/7/07) • Energy bill will test Pelosi's command (7/30/07) • Boxer blasts EPA's stance on gases law (7/27/07) • U.S. is pressured to help China curb emissions (7/5/07) • Erosion of Alaska's north coast speeding up (7/5/07) • Dems' plan on energy tilts green (6/29/07) • Agency's 3 new rules on warming criticized (6/22/07) • Challenge to California emissions rules dropped (6/19/07) • Colleges back plan to become "carbon neutral" (6/14/07) • Lawmakers want capitol to go green (6/11/07) • Airlines' long-term goal is zero emissions (6/9/07) • Pollution math (6/8/07) • Political hot air (6/8/07) • U.S. to help on new climate pact (6/8/07) • Bush portrays himself as mediator on climate change (6/7/07) • An energy plan full of smoke (6/6/07) • Intelligence needed on climate change (6/6/07) • Pelosi scuttles warming challenge (6/6/07) • A blueprint for taking leadership on climate change (6/5/07) • U.S. trims orbiting climate monitors (6/5/07) • Emissions Controls: Pelosi to push for California-style cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases (6/2/07) • Blame coal: Texas leads carbon emissions (6/2/07) • Pelosi: Climate change is a reality (5/29/07) • U.S. Rejects EU Emission Reductions (5/29/07) • Dems drafting bill that could derail state warming law (6/5/07) • Do trees make it okay to drive an SUV? (5/27/07) • State pressures EPA on emissions law (5/23/07) • Bush dusts off climate plan based on ethanol, mpg rules (5/15/07) • Big city officials to study global warming (5/15/07) • 31 states to form greenhouse gas emission registry (5/9/07) • Bush, EU leaders talk about global warming (5/1/07) • Boxer will 'hound' Bush on emissions regulations (4/19/07) • Gingrich, Kerry meet in middle on warming (4/12/07) • Automakers call U.S. court ruling a boost (4/4/07) • Ruling pushes a new U.S. approach to global warming (4/3/07) • EU calls for U.S. help on global warming (4/3/07) • Justices: EPA can control car emissions (4/2/07) • Arizona's cool sky islands feeling the heat as climate changes (3/27/07) • Time for a carbon tax? (3/23/07) • Coordinate carbon trading markets (3/23/07) • Al Gore a star in return to Capitol Hill (3/22/07) • Global warming activists try to stir Americans to change (3/22/07) • 'Cap and trade' gaining favor (3/21/07) • Gore urges fast action on global warming (3/21/07) • Congress listens to automakers (3/16/07) • U.S. accused of silencing experts on polar bears, climate change (3/9/07) • The new emissions war (3/8/07) • U.N. hopes U.S. takes lead on climate change (3/2/07) • EU can offer U.S. ideas on climate change (2/28/07) • 5 Western states announce effort to reduce emissions (2/27/07) • Speaker, Republicans clash in global warming hearing (2/9/07) • Grim global warming prognosis for Western U.S. (2/3/07) • GOP cites warming in bid for new dams (2/1/07) • House, Senate target climate change (1/31/07) • House panel to hear complaints of pressure on climate scientists (1/30/07) • No blue sky, no whining for big biz (1/28/07) • Congress moving on climate change (1/29/07) • Gore's 'Truth' given cold reception in Seattle (1/26/07) • Many around globe warm to Bush's words on climate (1/25/07) • A call to use less gasoline, depend less on foreign oil (1/24/07) • Trading away coal-fired power pollution (1/23/07) • Lobbying effort signals corporate climate change (1/23/07) • Pelosi creates committee to deal with global warming (1/19/07) • Global warming comes to D.C. (1/18/07) • Power players warm to Feinstein bill (1/18/07) International
• Climate plan to adopt forest protection (12/14/07) • Bali climate talks stretch into Saturday (12/14/07) • 'It is time to make peace with the planet' (12/11/97) • US states at climate meeting in Bali (12/11/07) • Kyoto climate pact a decade old (12/11/07) • Scientists: Seaweed could stem warming (12/9/70) • Amazon still faces threats old and new (12/8/07) • UN: US states, cities can impact climate (12/7/07) • China: US should take lead on climate (12/7/07) • Australia signs up to ratifying Kyoto (12/5/07) • The Bali summit (12/5/07) • Warming imperils tiny island nation (12/5/07) • Global warming plays havoc with nature (12/5/07) • U.N. Climate conference crucial as Arctic melts (11/27/07) • UN panel releases comprehensive research on global warming (11/18/07) • Climate forum attracts big names (11/16/07) • Carbon removal has little impact (11/13/07) • Experts to prepare global warming report (11/9/07) • Hotter world may fan flames (10/25/07) • Carbon dioxide in atmosphere increasing (10/22/07) • The meltdown of Greenland's way of life (10/19/07) • More threatening than terrorists? (10/16/07) • Gore, U.N. panel share Nobel Peace Prize for fighting global warming (10/12/07) • Gas emissions said at unsafe threshold (10/9/07) • New Zealand charges ahead in race to address climate change (10/1/07) • 100 ways global warming will change your life (10/1/07) • Record sea ice melt this summer larger than Texas or Alaska (9/21/07) • Helping Chinese go green (9/13/07) • Bush, Australia's Howard vow action on warming (9/6/07) • Doctors see warming as cardiac risk (9/5/07) • Accord reached at talks on climate (9/2/07) • Dropping your load to reduce your carbon footprint (8/22/07) • Global warming watchdog invests in coil, coal, utilities (8/19/07) • Arctic sea ice at record low, melt continues (8/19/07) • Warming of glaciers threatens millions in China (8/1/07) • Uniting to fight warming (7/28/07) • To fight global warming, give to trees (7/25/07) • Making sense of pollution markets (7/15/07) • Coal's appeal to rail spikes upgrades (7/15/07) • Save the Earth, buy less (7/13/07) • Birthing bears head for land as Arctic ice gets scarcer (7/13/07) • Tourism-dependent Micronesian islands threatened by rising waters (7/12/07) • Study: Global warming drying up Arctic ponds (7/2/07) • China spews most CO2- U.S. still more per capita (6/21/07) • How green is valley? Not very (6/20/07) • Greenland sees global warming as nice change (6/8/07) • Merkel: G-8 agreement on climate change (6/7/07) • China unrolls strategy on climate change (6/5/07) • Greenland ice melt speeds up (6/2/07) • Increase in carbon emissions seen tripling since '90s (5/22/07) • Ocean may soak up less carbon (5/18/07) • Getting the carbon out (5/18/07) • Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming (5/14/07) • To cool the planet (5/11/07) • UN raises doubts on biofuels (5/9/07) • Global call for action on climate change (5/4/07) • May snow reading just 29% of normal (5/2/07) • Arctic sea ice smaller than ever (5/2/07) • Nations urged to reduce greenhouse gases (5/1/07) • Global warming health effects (4/17/07) • Courts and Greens (4/14/07) (Registration required) • Fighting climate change (4/13/07) • Scientists detail warming's calamitous effects (4/12/07) • In some areas, forests may not help reduce warming, study says (4/10/07) • The rich-poor divide of global climate change (4/8/07) • Earth faces a grim future if global warming isn't slowed, UN report says (4/6/07) • Global Climate warning: 'Species are going to be lost' (3/31/07) • Researchers raise fears of melting ice at North Pole (3/16/07) • Britain proposes bold environmental law (3/14/07) • Europe gets tougher on climate control (3/10/07) • A WARMING WORLD: As warnings grow more dire, Nobelist emerges as leader (3/5/07) • China about to pass U.S. as world's top generator of greenhouse gases (3/5/07) • Scientists offer climate plan to U.N. (2/27/07) • Researchers take poles' temperature (2/26/07) • Air conditioners batter ozone layer (2/23/07) • Top scientists offer stark climate analysis (2/20/07) • Angela Merkel - the new climate leader? (2/9/07) • Confronting climate change (2/6/07) • Report spurs calls for aggressive action (2/3/07) • Climate scientists strengthen link to human causes (2/2/07) • Experts see 1,000 years of global warming effects (2/2/07) • Humans "very likely" making Earth warmer (2/1/07) • New climate report lacks data on ice sheets (1/29/07) • Degrees of Concern (series on global warming in Contra Costa Times) (1/29/07) • Many species of waterbirds are in decline (1/24/07) • Scientists: Glaciers in Alps melting fast (1/22/07) • More pregnant polar bears denning on land (1/24/07) Richard Pombo
• Central Valley congressman keeps his ears to the ground (8/23/07) • Rookie in Congress touts science (5/14/07) • Ex-GOP representative becomes a Democrat (4/18/07) • New lawmakers already battling to keep seat (1/22/07) California forest news
• Muir Woods celebrates first 100 years as a national monument (12/17/07) • Sierra Pacific says clearcut plan could aid weasel's kin (12/13/07) • Academy teaches use of prescribed fire (12/9/07) • Catastrophic threat facing Sierra (12/6/07) • Court stricter on fire control (12/6/07) • Danger comes with the scenery when you live in a fire-prone area (11/26/07) • Malibu residents flee yet another destructive fire (11/25//07) • New era of cooperation between Heavenly ski resort, environmentalists (11/25/07) • Marin County man found guilty of illegal mountain biking (11/16/07) • Police arrest 3 during midnight grove scuffle (11/16/07) • UC preparing for extrication of tree-sitters (11/10/07) • Redwoods protest is peaceful after arrests and pepper spray (11/9/07) • Inspector probes alleged logging of protected Sequoia pines (11/7/07) • Waddle Ranch in the Sierra near Truckee is being preserved (11/2/07) • Cal can boot all tree-sitters, judge says (10/30/07) • Seeing the giant forest for the trees (10/28/07) • Half a million flee Southern California fires; 1,600 homes burn (10/24/07) • Wildfires force California to postpone EPA lawsuit (10/23/07) • Mining in wilderness areas of state seen as threat (10/16/07) • Ruling on UC center could take weeks (10/12/07) • It's no snow job--handful of redwoods are rare albinos (10/11/07) • Lawmakers call for probe into alleged logging of protected pines (10/10/07) • Supervisors pass emergency ordinance to protect redwoods (10/10/07) • Tree-sitters' leader wants to recall 'conservative' mayor (10/8/07) • Judge tours disputed site of UC's sports facility (10/5/07) • UC to ask judge to ID more of the tree-sitters (10/3/07) • Science of owl plan disputed (10/3/07) • East Bay hills eucalyptus logging plan opposed (10/1/07) • Judge orders treesitters at Cal to get down (10/2/07) • Firefighters contain wildfire in San Bernardino National Forest (9/20/07) • East Bay officials approve deal to buy ranch for huge park (9/19/07) • Battle over trees at Cal football stadium is heading to court (9/18/07) • Rural sprawl in the Sierra raises the risk of wildfire (9/18/07) • Trees go up in smoke to battle big blaze (9/17/07) • Protesters can stay in trees (9/13/07) • Treesitters lose court round (8/31/07) • Berkeley treesitters get food, water (8/30/07) • Zaca Fire is slowed - 2 new blazes flare (8/22/07) • Tahoe's deep blues (8/22/07) • Firebombs in the forest: Slashpiles fueled Angora fire destruction (8/22/07) • Huge SoCal fire grows; Governor declares state of emergency (8/20/07) • Lake Tahoe warmer, dirtier- scientists worry (8/16/07) • Sudden oak death found in Santa Rosa (8/13/07) • Rural Santa Barbara County blaze surges overnight (8/13/07) • Hundreds ordered to flee S Calif. fire (8/4/07) • Doorway to disaster (7/30/07) • Los Padres National Forest is reopened with the 31,000-acre fire 80% contained (7/28/07) • 2-state fire panel formed (7/26/07) • Inventive conservation plan aims to save 30,000 acres (7/26/07) • Bohemian Club's logging plan raises plenty of sawdust (7/12/07) • If salmon could vote (7/11/07) • Dozens of wildfires ravage the West (7/9/07) • Fire prevention councils plead for state money (7/7/07) • End the Tahoe fire blame game (7/3/07) • Forest practices blamed for fire get critical eye (7/3/07) • Raging Tahoe fire's roots: 150 years of forest abuse (6/26/07) • Firefighters begin to contain devastating S. Lake Tahoe blaze (6/25/07) • Nonprofit buys 50,000 acres of redwoods (6/15/07) • Eastwood golf course plan draws fire (6/13/07) • Officials: Sequoia forest fire should be contained by weekend (6/6/07) • Dry winter fuels wildfire warning (6/9/07) • HP sells redwood property to land trusts, plans to open to public (5/31/07) • Scientists advise capturing spotted owls (5/20/07) • Campus tree-sitter appears in court (4/19/07) • Berkeley students climb redwoods in protest (4/23/07) • Spotted owl plan in jeopardy (4/26/07) • Janet Cobb on what happened to all the oaks in Oakland (3/25/07) • Supreme Court spurns California salvage logging review (3/19/07) • Nude people to pose in disputed oak grove (3/14/07) • Tree sitters say site might be burial ground (2/21/07) • Quake concerns block UC (1/30/07) • Swinging in the trees in front of stadium (1/30/07) • Judge issues preliminary injunction to stop UC stadium plan (1/29/07) • Judge to rule on plan to fell grove of oaks near stadium (1/24/07) • Woodman, spare the trees, grandes dames cry (1/23/07) General forest news • WalMart's crimes against forests (12/19/07) • Deal reached on federal timber payments (12/5/07) • World mulls paying for forest protection (12/5/07) • Indonesia to plant 79 million trees (11/28/07) • New conservation zones for North Canada (11/22/07) • Katrina, Rita a super disaster for the trees (11/16/07) • Deterioration of forest roads threatens our drinking water (10/18/07) (Registration required) • Roadless debate goes back before judge (10/17/07) • New York City is one of the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rainforest (10/15/07) • Frankenforests: GE trees threaten ecosystem collapse (8/2/07) • To save trees, let forests burn (5/7/07) • Group sues to stop logging in Ky. (4/30/07) • Higher wildfire risk in West, South (5/1/07) • Forest plan's critics suppressed, judge rules (4/3/07) Pacific Lumber logging
• Gap family offers millions to help revive Humboldt logging firm (12/22/07) • Mediation doesn't settle Pacific Lumber bankruptcy dispute (12/19/07) • Pacific Lumber wants to sell 29,000 acres of north state redwoods (10/2/07) • Suit filed over Headwaters logging deal (4/20/07) • Venue for lumber case argued (3/7/07) • Don't let Hurwitz off (1/24/07) • Pacific Lumber Leans (1/20/07) California environmental news
• Edison hurrying to finish Mt. Wilson project before owls nest (12/26/07) • The birds are back: Good news along the Pacific Coast Flyway (11/18/07) • California greening (9/4/07) • State, EU talk about pollution (8/30/07) • Yolo County ranch a site for agricultural-environmental cooperation (8/13/07) • Melvin Lane, Sunset publisher, conservationist (8/2/07) • Book recounts environmentalists' fight in the Bay Area (7/19/07) • California group pushes for conservation to be added to farm subsidies (7/10/07) • Boxer's push to protect honeybees (7/6/07) • Deal will protect seven miles of river (6/22/07) • California standards could crimp Canada oil boom (6/6/07) • Wildlife watchdog ponders limits (6/5/07) • In John Muir's footsteps (6/4/07) • It Won't Be Easy Being Green (5/24/07) • Conservation Tips: Although most are standard, showering with a friend still not bad idea (4/12/07) • Mandatory Restrictions: Water agencies say imposed summer cutbacks possible (4/12/07) • Schwarzenegger's guiltless green (4/12/07) • Struggling seabirds (4/3/07) • Sierra poet makes case in prose for preserving nature (2/26/07)
General environmental news • A very green year (12/17/07) • Environmental destruction that chokes growth (11/29/07) • Wildlife refuges generate some 1.7B (11/27/07) • Mexico fund will protect butterflies (11/26/07) • Floods devastate northern India state (10/5/07) • Exploring an amphibian epidemic (8/7/07) • She broadened First Lady's domain (7/12/07) • The bald eagle soars again (7/3/07) • Bald eagle being taken off U.S. list (6/28/07) • Energy bill draft splits House Dems (6/8/07) • Brazilian rancher guilty in nun's killing (5/16/07) • U.S. Court rebuffs Bush on tuna ban (4/28/07) • Effort to catalog every species tops 1 million (4/8/07) • Protection, acre by acre (3/27/07) • Feds drop Yellowstone grizzly from list (3/23/07) • TechNet is keen on green (3/16/07) • Sales soar at green-tech companies (3/7/07) • Wildlife refuges lack means to survive (2/27/07) • Idaho senator loses fish fight on appeal (1/25/07)
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