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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.

A rain forest is in the making in northeastern Bangladesh and the men who for years stripped it of its inhabitants are now its guards. The 1,250 hectares (3,125 acres) reserve is home to more than 50 species of plants and rare animals including hollock gibbons.

The concept of sustainable development seems to be taking root among some Namibians, including traditional authorities. In an effort to ensure that mopane worms in the Uukwaluudhi Conservancy are not over-harvested but utilised in a sustainable manner, the Uukwaluudhi Traditional Authority (UTA) has set up regulations governing the harvesting of mopane worms in their forests.

During the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, Arbor Day organizers planted millions of trees to stop devastating soil erosion on the Great Plains. Now, the Nebraska-based National Arbor Day Foundation has turned its attention to global warming and is teaming up with a company whose lifeblood is putting cars and trucks on the road.

Three Wisconsin and Michigan forestry organizations have merged to form the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association. The association, based in Rhinelander, is the amalgamation of Wisconsin Professional Loggers Association, Timber Producers Association of Wisconsin and Michigan, and Forest Industry Safety & Training Alliance.

The FSC-US Board of Directors announced the resignation of Roger C. Dower, who has been President of the organization since November 2002. Following his resignation, Mr. Dower was appointed to the Board of Directors of FSC-US effective March 1, 2006. On March 1, 2007, Mr. Dower will assume the position of President of the Johnson Foundation, located in Racine, Wisconsin.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and partners are calling on the nation's architects, builders and others to participate in a competition seeking designs that facilitate reuse and minimize waste.

Paper collected each week from blue box programs has become the latest commodity to rocket up in price as a new player -- China -- is scooping up almost one-third of North American newsprint to recycle it in its own mills.