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DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Bidding for a congressional seat held by a free-trade Republican for nearly two decades, Democrat Bruce Braley has gained an edge by taking the opposite view: bashing globalization.

Republican Assemblyman John Carpenter of Elko is proud of the influence his northeast Nevada town wields in state politics. "If it wasn't for Elko, President Bush would have never won Nevada in '04," Carpenter said. "If he hadn't taken Nevada, he might have not won the election.

When Montana forester Craig Thomas bought newly developed bins and bunks for hauling his wood products, he had them painted bright green. "Craig is a pilot, so he said he wanted to be able to see them from the air," Craig Rawlings explains.

The future is looking a little brighter for North Georgia's hemlock trees. The stately evergreens are threatened by an invasive insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid, which has killed trees throughout much of the Eastern United States.

With smoke from ceremonial pipes swirling upward, representatives of the federal government and four American Indian tribes sealed an agreement Monday guaranteeing tribal members access to national forests to gather plants. The agreement covers the Huron-Manistee National Forests in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula and the Hiawatha National Forest in the Upper Peninsula.

Scott Killman | Wall Street Journal | November 11, 2006

Julia Hayley | REUTERS | November 1, 2006 MADRID - Organic farmers in Spain are abandoning maize after finding traces of genetically modified (GMO) strains in their crops, figures show.

The 10,000 black walnut trees planted on Sen. Richard Lugar's family farm might someday bring in extra cash, not by being sent to a sawmill, but by simply staying rooted in the soil. Two years ago, the Indiana Republican enrolled his 604-acre farm in the Chicago Climate Exchange, North America's only legally binding greenhouse-gas reduction and trading system.