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The U.S. Forest Service this month launched a national strategy intended to preserve open space on private lands outside of forest boundaries. That's because federal officials now consider the proliferation of homes and roads on private lands like those stretching from West Point to Arnold in Calaveras County to be one of the greatest threats to nearby national forests.

An attempt to settle the Pacific Lumber Co. bankruptcy through mediation has failed, sending the matter back into court Friday. A federal judge must eventually decide whether Charles Hurwitz's Maxxam Corp. or its creditors should control some 200,000 acres of redwood forest.

I spent three days at the end of November in Brisbane, a booming but still small-ish city, some 930 km North of Sydney, on Australia's east coast.

Residents, research link farms to illness DELTA, Pa. - Mark and Diane Thomas were accustomed to farm life when they moved from Maryland into a charming 1830s log home here on 19 acres.

Not only is it OK to cut trees; it's necessary to maintain and grow more old growth trees. That was the theme of a recent workshop hosted by the Sisters Ranger District in the Glaze Meadow forest adjacent to Black Butte Ranch.

As 12,000 people gathered in Bali this week to begin framing a global response to Earth's warming climate, efforts to close a deal that would slow destruction of tropical forests appear to be the best prospect for a concrete achievement from the historic assemblage.

A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. And we're already past 0.6 degrees C., climate experts say.