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The World Trade Organization ruled that the United States complied with international law in its calculation of tariffs against Canadian lumber imports, according to a report made public Monday. Canada argued the United States artificially inflated antidumping rates by using a different calculation method to avoid complying with an earlier World Trade Organization decision.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been given the green light to wage a full-scale assault on the hemlock woolly adelgid. The regional director of the National Park Service has approved the park's preferred alternative for fighting the insect using a combination of chemical and biological controls.

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Forest Service to diversify its work force in California, ruling that the agency has failed to eliminate hiring and promotional barriers to Hispanics as required by a 2002 court agreement.

There's a telling scene in the documentary "Buyer Be Fair" in which various Home Depot customers try to define "certified wood." Customer No. 1: "Well, I know it is treated with chemicals so that it stands up for a long time ..." Customer No. 2: "I worked with wood for my whole life and I've never heard the term 'certified' ..."

A new, one-hour documentary film that tackles issues of fair trade and certification labeling reccoments FSC certification as one of the solutions. The film, which was presented at the FSC General Assembly in Manaus, 2005, held its East Coast of the United States premiere this March at the 14th annual Washington, D.C. Environmental Film Festival.

Barama Company Limited says that even though it has not turned a profit in its 15 years of operation here it still contributes to Guyana's economy and aims to do more of this with the export of its products now that its forests have been certified as sustainably managed.

Early in the twentieth century, Martin Hicks planted a handful of American chestnut seeds on the ridge overlooking his farm in West Salem, Wisconsin. The planting was an act of faith: Chestnuts are not native to the Midwest. The seeds, a gift from Hicksmother, came from trees in Pennsylvania, the heart of a vast chain of chestnut forests stretching from Georgia to Maine.