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Forest LoggingArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
Logging to begin in Keystone - 27 Sep 2008 Summit Daily News,By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — Logging crews will soon start removing hazardous trees and thinning dead lodgepole pines on about 1000 acres of national Chips are down for loggers - Sep 21, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,...timber that could allow it to hugely scale back native forest logging while still producing enough hardwood and softwood for domestic use and export. Walking for the forest - Sep 23, 2008 Narooma News,...provided an analysis of trends in the timber industry which show that Australia has enough plantation resource to allow an end to native forest logging. Mayors decided to take control over forest logging - Sep 18, 2008 Focus News,Sofia. Mayors of 35 municipalities across Bulgaria mull setting up a union in order to coordinate their forest management efforts and increase their control Carbon scheme putting forests at logging risk: academics - Sep 3, 2008 ABC Online,..."If we see a curtailment of plantation processing in Australia, what will happen is we will revert back into more native forest logging," she said. Greenpeace Targets Logging Ships - Sep 4, 2008 Environmental Leader,The activists boarded the ship as barges carried cut logs to the vessel, moored beside a forest-logging concession owned by Malaysian firm Rimbunan Hijau Study aims to protect beach from forest runoff - Sep 21, 2008 New Zealand Herald,By Wayne Thompson Residents concerned about popular Maraetai Beach being spoiled by forest logging have won the backing of local authorities for a study of Police to crack down on forest protesters - Sep 8, 2008 ABC Regional Online,..."no tolerance" attitude to protests in and around the Bermagui forest. Logging has not yet started in the area, north of Bermagui on the Cobargo Road, Judge shuts down Central Oregon logging - Sep 12, 2008 The Oregonian - OregonLive.com,...by Michael Milstein, The Oregonian A federal judge has shut down a, 8000-acre logging project in Central Oregon's Deschutes National Forest that was Logging starts soon in Eightmile drainage - Sep 4, 2008 Omak Okanogan County Chronicle,Early in September, logging is scheduled to begin in the Eightmile Creek drainage of the Methow Valley Ranger District, according to a Forest Service From logging to literacy - Aug 30, 2008 BlueRidgeNow.com,By Ann Greenleaf Wirtz Exie Wilde Henson shared the story of her parents' life one morning, as the wonder of the Blue Ridge Mountains that dominate every Team Up with Horses - Sep 5, 2008 Mother Earth News,By Tom Moates The vision of a team of enormous draft horses pulling a log down a forest path may hearken back to days gone by, but it may be more modern They Helped Create This Mess - Sep 19, 2008 CounterPunch,But, for me personally, the resumption of public lands' Ancient Forest logging is unforgivable. The Democrats were the majority party in the House and the Ghana, EU clinch deal to crackdown on illicit timber trade - Sep 3, 2008 AFPLAGOS (AFP) — The European Union on Wednesday inked a landmark deal with Ghana to fight illegal timber exports from the west African country, the EU said. Greens angry after Garrett grants Gunns 'unjustified' extension - Sep 7, 2008 LIVENEWS.com.au,...apply for an extension demonstrates that the Rudd government is still captive to Gunns, to the native forest logging industry, and to big business. Conservation: Rise in illegal logging threatens butterflies - Sep 12, 2008 Scenta.co.uk,The traditional wintering site for tens of millions of monarch butterflies in central Mexico is under continuing threat after conservationists failed to Ghana, EU sign pact - Sep 4, 2008 Modern Ghana,By Naa Betty Nelson - Ghanaian Chronicle The Minister of Lands Forestry and Mines, Mrs. Esther Obeng Dappah, has noted that Ghana, under the first Voluntary Logging in Clayoquot at a crossroads - 14 Aug 2008 The Westerly,If a logging company says they can log sustainably in an old growth forest then they are lying. For it to be sustainable they would have to provide a Create an account - 14 Aug 2008 Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription),The magnificent, rare Clayoquot Sound is one of the most famous forests in the world. More than a decade ago, the fight to save Clayoquot Sound inspired Fire crews keep watch over blaze - 14 Aug 2008 The Province,Fire crews were keeping an eye on a blaze on Sumas Mountain last night, hoping they'll get a chance to douse it this morning. First Nation’s angle conspicuous by absence - 14 Aug 2008 Georgia Straight,While the Straight remains one of my favourite sources for news, Matthew Burrows’s recent piece about proposed copper mining in Clayoquot Sound was Greens want end to all logging in native forests - Aug 13, 2008 ABC Online,..."I do think that there is a unified voice across the conservation movement that native forest logging must stop and that we must make a complete transfer to Small forest fire erupts near homes in Abbotsford, BC - Aug 13, 2008 The Canadian Press,ABBOTSFORD, BC — A resident living near a pile of logging debris that went up in flames on an increasingly developed mountainside Wednesday said she had to Green groups say native forest logging unsustainable - Aug 4, 2008 ABC Online,Environment East Gippsland's Jill Redwood says VicForests is going broke because it was set up to make profit from native forest logging. Man dies in forest logging accident - Aug 5, 2008 The Northern Star,ACCIDENT SITE: The scene of the accident yesterday near Wyan Creek Road, south-west of Rappville. Picture: Jacklyn Wagner By ANDY PARKS A MAN has been The Last Stand: Part 3 - Aug 10, 2008 Steamboat Pilot,View photo » Beau Heggie, with Heggie Logging, replaces a chain on the harvester at a Roosevelt National Forest logging site. View photo » Jerry Heggie, Sierra Leone: Still On Gava Forest Industry - Aug 6, 2008 AllAfrica.com,..."Gava FIC has not gotten the appropriate equipment for timber and forest logging operations. Gava dishonestly took advantage of the free privileges to Restoule man says logging built community and people shouldn't be ... - Aug 12, 2008 The North Bay Nugget,Not everybody in Restoule is opposed to a proposal to haul logs down Hawthorne Drive to Highway 534. James Roberts, 51, said most of the people criticizing Coalition sues over Elliott State Forest logging - Aug 12, 2008 The Register-Guard,By Winston Ross FLORENCE — A coalition of environmental groups sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday, arguing the agency has exposed the northern Scientists say spotted owl plan not good enough - Aug 4, 2008 BusinessWeekBy JEFF BARNARD The Bush administration's latest plan for saving the northern spotted owl from extinction while allowing a boost in old growth logging was Trees' role in climate change 'unclear' - Aug 5, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,Trees could hold the key to tackling climate change - but it's not clear whether the planet benefits from leaving them in the ground or chopping them down. Natives and environmentalists on opposite sides of new Clayoquot fight - Jul 27, 2008 Vancouver Sun,The fragile economies of five first nations in Clayoquot Sound would be dealt a crippling blow if major environmental groups go ahead with plans to disrupt Congo launches review of logging contracts - Jul 30, 2008 Reuters South Africa,By Joe Bavier KINSHASA, July 30 (Reuters) - Congo, home to the world's second largest tropical forest, launched a review of all timber contracts on California officials reject emergency salmon protection petition - Aug 7, 2008 guardian.co.uk,California forestry officials yesterday rejected an emergency petition to protect coho salmon in coastal streams, even though federal fisheries regulators Conservation council rethinks logging position - Jul 30, 2008 ABC Online,The Conservation Council of Western Australia has adopted a new policy that opposes the felling of any native trees. The council once supported logging of Heybrook Ridge saved from clear-cutting - Jul 31, 2008 Seattle Times,Advocates for a swath of forest called Heybrook Ridge, above the tiny town of Index in Snohomish County, have just about saved it from clear-cut logging. Create an account - Jul 30, 2008 Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription),Ancient forest logging must end worldwide to solve climate change, protect all biodiversity and achieve global ecological sustainability. Judge halts helicopter logging in grizzly habitat - Aug 3, 2008 Jackson Hole Star-Tribune,By KATIE OYAN AP writer Monday, August 04, 2008 HELENA, Mont. -- A federal judge has halted a small portion of a northwestern Montana logging project, Green activists set deadline for loggers - Jul 24, 2008 Vancouver Sun,Environmental groups have set a July 29 deadline to obtain an agreement with logging companies and the provincial government to halt logging permanently in Maps outline logging future - Jul 15, 2008 Terrace Standard,ANYONE CURIOUS about what areas could be logged in the next years are welcome to check out a series of web-based maps prepared by the province and local Action against logging is put on hold - Jul 29, 2008 Vancouver Sun,Environmental groups have indefinitely postponed action against logging companies that had planned to begin logging a pristine old-growth valley in The neglected conscience - Aug 7, 2008 Jakarta Post,Many are at risk of extinction due to forest logging and capture for pets. Trapping and smuggling to supply the trade in wild animals continues largely Little carbon scheme joy for Tas - Jul 16, 2008 The Mercury,Tasmanian forest industry stood to benefit from carbon credits from plantation establishment, but would bear no cost for extensive native forest logging. Climate won't wait, Mr Rudd - Jul 19, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,...convenient mass transit and cycleways; and retrain all those workers and communities who currently rely on coal, oil and native forest logging. European Union countries add to illegal logging trade - Jul 22, 2008 Lepidopterology,Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem according [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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