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With the upcoming holiday weekend likely to send thousands into Minnesota's woods, state officials are enlisting campers in the fight against the emerald ash borer, a bug that has killed 20 million ash trees in the Midwest.

The Cabinet has suspended the proposed giveaway of part of Mabira forest to the Mehta Group until the Ministry of Lands formulates a land use policy to spell out the utilisation of such land.

With the peak of summer wildfire season still months away, Congress and the Forest Service are wringing their hands over how to pay the increased costs of fighting wildfires without cannibalizing the agency's limited budget.

Each year, development claims a million acres of private forest land in the U.S. To stem this threat to the country's forests, landowner, forestry and environmentalist groups have joined together to influence the 2007 Farm Bill. The Forest in the Farm Bill Coalition consists of more than 30 national and regional organizations.

The U.S. Forest Service awarded a half million dollars in matching challenge cost-share funds today to improve children's health and close the widening gap between America's youth and the outdoors.

Representatives of Bolivia s government and private sector are in the United States capital, Washington, D.C., to lobby legislators for another extension of trade benefits afforded under the expiring Andean Trade Preferences and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). The U.S. treaty, which includes Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, was due to expire in December 2006, but U.S.