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Peering through the windshield of his truck, Ed Gross sighed as the heap of junk grew larger as he drove down the road. "Son of a gun!" he said. "This is a new one to me. I didn't even know about it." About 8 miles up Winchuck River Road, the pile of garbage on the shoulder resembled a thrift store after a tornado: clothes, toys, appliances, old cars, storage equipment.

When Premier Gordon Campbell announced last year that nearly two million hectares in the heart of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest were being protected, he promised a new type of ecosystem-based management would be developed to control logging in the remaining four million hectares.

The timing was most unusual for the early-to-bed Bush White House. At 1 a.m. Monday, in a letter dated Sunday, it formally notified Congress, which was out of town in any case, that the United States and South Korea had just reached agreement on a free-trade pact.

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.

Landowners who sell pulpwood to paper giant Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury ratified a deal with the mill Sunday that will bring the highest wood prices in the Maritimes. "This is a significant victory for all Nova Scotians," Kingsley Brown, spokesman for the Nova Scotia Landowners and Forest Fibre Producers Association, told The Chronicle Herald on Sunday evening.

Boise Cascade Chairman Tom Stephens called on Congress on Tuesday to cap U.S. greenhouse emissions that contribute to global warming, while encouraging other nations to develop their own programs. In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Stephens said the cap should be reduced over time to move the U.S. economy to "a more neutral greenhouse gas position."

Medium sized tomato ripening to a green color, with cream/yellow spots and stripes. The flavor is generally considered excellent and this variety often makes top ten lists for its taste. The Green Zebra is used heavily in salads and salsa for its mild sweet-acidic flavor blend.