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forest news archives 2007
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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)