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The Bush team has agreed a free-trade deal with South Korea but also slapped tariffs on Chinese paper. Is America's trade policy going backwards or forwards?

Listen closely, and you can hear a growing roar of worry about the high price of corn, increasing from $2.60 a bushel last year to near $4 a bushel now. It's just one crop, right, so who cares?

Scientists looking at the aftermath of wildfires in the forests of southwestern Oregon and Northern California found that after five to ten years even the most severely burned areas had sprouted plentiful seedlings without any help from man.

There's more green to trees than the leaves. Trees provide shade, store carbon, collect storm water, cut energy costs, block wind and increase property values, all at a benefit to the city. But time is running out for residents to snatch up bargain-priced trees through a city partnership to add up to 1,500 trees to the landscape.

Reducing the number of deer in Pennsylvania has allowed the state's forests to begin to recover from decades of overbrowsing, but the problem is not yet solved. That's the conclusion drawn by two ongoing studies.

The Allegheny National Forest will have more wilderness, new remote recreation areas and new standards to govern oil and gas well drilling, according to a new, long-awaited, 10-year management plan. In addition, the U.S. Forest Service will try to raise money to buy some of those underlying mineral rights.

Jeremy Rogers, an inventory forester with the U.S. Forest Service, took pleasure in hacking away privet from the tree line around Aiken's "hidden bay" Saturday. "I really don't like exotics," Rogers said. "They're taking over in parts of the state."

New Mexico pecan farmers have shipped more than 2 million pounds of pecans to China in a two-month period, and state agriculture officials are hopeful large-scale exports of the southern New Mexico specialty will continue to grow.