The second consideration, he said, is the Forest Service intends to promote oak regeneration and longevity on the forest and one management method involves controlled burns. Assuming Congress agrees to designate the two new wilderness areas at Chestnut Ridge and Minister Valley, Morse said the amount of acreage on the forest designated as wilderness would increase from the present 8,979 acres to 21,358 acres or from less than two percent of the forest s lands to four percent. Morse said, I...

Will investors remain long-term oriented as they say and stay the course? Or will they shift greater allocations to actively managed products such as hedge funds to hopefully reduce the pain of a downside market? If it is for the latter, the shift may come too late. But should we experience a serious market decline as we did after 2000, the expectations of investors will be recalibrated and decisions made thereafter. So, if I want to have timber or uranium exposure, for example, I m pretty...

District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that the administration failed to adequately consider the environmental effects the new rules would have and neglected to properly gather public comment on the issue. The ruling overturns a key administration environmental rule that governs all 192 million acres of national forests and stops pro-business plans in the parks under way for more than two years. Hamilton said in her written ruling that the government "appears to have charted a new path and...

Zheng said the strong wind and craggedness of the mountain made it more difficult for controlling the fire. But people were still stationed there for fear that smolder turned to blaze again. Blaze ravaging southwest China brought under control 2/4/2007 10:19 More than 3,200 people succeeded in bringing a forest fire in southwest China's Yunnan Province under control by yesterday afternoon. The fire started in Anning, a city in central Yunnan and 60 kilometers from the provincial capital...

Goodman and Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 1, 2007; Page A01 MYITKYINA, Burma -- The Chinese logging boss set his sights on a thickly forested mountain just inside Burma, aiming to harvest one of the last natural stands of teak on Earth. Goodman and Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 1, 2007; Page A01 MYITKYINA, Burma -- The Chinese logging boss set his sights on a thickly forested mountain just inside Burma, aiming to harvest one of the last...

While it's impossible to predict spring fire activity, the conditions on the forest floor are very dry and below average precipitation is expected across the northwest, specifically for the southern portion, from Kenora to Marathon. By the time the season had wrapped up, more than 1,700 fires had burned across the northwest, making it the busiest fire season on record and fires consumed almost 148,000 hectares of bush land. Last year, the region saw an unprecedented number of forest fires....

With the help of a volunteer contingent of 21 and a Streets Department contingent of two, the Phoenixville Tree Advisory Commission on Saturday planted new street trees in three locations in the Borough: on both sides of Third Street between Buttonwood and Gay, on Gay Street north of Third, and on Third near its intersection with Wheatland Street. With the help of a volunteer contingent of 21 and a Streets Department contingent of two, the Phoenixville Tree Advisory Commission on Saturday...

At the entrances to many forests, including the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Smokey appears with his smiling face and ranger hat next to a chart that warns of the relative danger of forest fires. He said Rutgers was broadly interested in how land-use change affects the resources in the Pine Barrens - whether it be the loss of endangered species or the effect of development on water resources, or, in the case of his work with the Forest Service, how the Pine Barrens react to and are changed by fire.

Planting is overdue for many plants in my greenhouse. From late fall through early spring people practice incorrect pruning, cropping off or cutting back to the same area of the branches. By not pruning, the flower heads do not get huge and heavy and weigh down the branches to form an arching, short, shrubby plant. That will result in healthy new growth and plentiful clusters of white, pink or red flowers. The idea is to add subtle, and in some cases insistent, perfumes to the garden to...