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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.

A multiple-year study of wolverines by the Wildlife Conservation Society and state and federal agencies has found that the fierce, reclusive animals travel hundreds of miles.

U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Greg Walden of Oregon unveiled a bill Tuesday to designate 77,500 acres of Mount Hood National Forest as wilderness, protecting it from most use except recreation.

China will tax wooden chopsticks, golf balls and the yachts of the country's nouveau riche as part of an ambitious plan to slash energy consumption and combat worsening pollution in the world's fastest growing economy.

Idaho Sen. Larry Craig says he will not allow a Bush administration proposal to sell 300,000 acres of national forest land to make it through a subcommittee he controls and which has to approve the idea.

Frustration is growing in the United States over issues such as the burgeoning trade deficit with China and the mainland's weak protection of intellectual property, a senior American trade official said yesterday.