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Forest landowners and those who enjoy being out in the woods can learn more about forest management and the impacts healthy forests have on local and state economies by attending next month's Million Acres in Minnesota conference scheduled for Feb. 10-11 at the Entertainment and Convention Center in Duluth.

An Environment Ministry report on the state of Germany's forests said the number of oaks with damaged crowns (upper section including branches and leaves) had nearly doubled in the past 11 years to 85 percent in 2005. Even more dramatic was the rise in trees with severe treetop damage, up to 51 percent in 2005 from 9 percent in 1984.

In the frozen Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, the last tiny herd of caribou in the Lower 48 states is fighting for survival.

Wood reinforced with fiberglass potentially offers "green" or environment-friendly products, according to a life-cycle inventory (LCI) that investigated the energy consumed and environmental emissions produced during its premanufacture and manufacturing stages.

A group of professors at Oregon State's College of Forestry unsuccessfully tried to get the prestigious journal Science to hold off on publishing a study that concluded that leaving forests alone is the best way to help them recover from wildfires.

With Canada lynx returning to the White River National Forest in ever-greater numbers, local land managers continue to grapple with the question of how best to ensure that there is adequate habitat for the big-pawed, tuft-eared cats in Summit County's forests.

A burgeoning U.S. market for "green roofs" has greenhouse owners cultivating plants that help keep out the summer heat and winter cold while also managing storm water runoff and absorbing carbon dioxide.

Original Publish Date 1/20/06 A contingent of professors at Oregon State University's College of Forestry want the nation's top scientific journal to withhold a study by an OSU graduate student who found that forests best recover from wildfires when they are not logged and left alone.