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A remote Papua New Guinea forest tribe has a new "walkabout" sawmill to cut logs for export to Australia as "ecotimber" rather than admit destructive foreign logging companies. The portable mill is part of a new ecoforestry initiative by Greenpeace and other environmental action groups in PNG to encourage tribes to do their own small-scale timber harvesting and milling.

Mexican President Vicente Fox and his guests US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada will tackle trade and immigration when they meet here on Thursday and Friday.

The US Forest Service wants to add 10-thosuand acres of wilderness to the Green Mountain National Forest in the Glastenbury Mountain area of southern Vermont. The additional wilderness is part of a plan, released by the Forest Service today, to increase wilderness and logging in the 400,000-acre national forest, which runs from the Massachusetts border to Addison County.

Dangling from the helicopter, a huge claw attached to a hose waited for its next victim. The four blades of the HeliQwest helicopter spun rapidly as pilot Kyle Wadden slowly lowered his aircraft. Then, when Wadden was at just the right height, the claw closed its jaws around its unhappy prey - a tree trunk.

South Dakotans ash trees are at risk. "What we did was cut all the elm out and plant ash trees," said John Ball, an Extension forest health specialist at South Dakota State University. "We couldn't have foreseen the emerald ash borer." The emerald ash borer is an insect that has killed 15 million ash trees since its discovery in 2002.