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The eco-conscious carnivore: a meat-lover's guide to making choices that maximize personal and planetary health; Healthy Appetites: savvy strategies for eating well By Dayna Macy "DO YOU WANT REGULAR GRASS-FED, OR ORGANIC?" asks the clerk behind the meat counter. It s winter and I've been craving a warming substantial food like brisket.

Two different factions of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are pooling their efforts in hopes of solving a common problem. The state's forestry and wildlife department are working to save Wisconsin forests from being picked clean by a hungrier, and more adaptable, herd of deer.

Canadian paper-maker Domtar Inc. is cutting 1,800 jobs and plans to close or sell several mills as part of a plan to steer the company back into profitability amid a downturn in the paper industry.

What's new: Nearly 4,800 acres of forest owned by the Potlatch Corp. in north central Minnesota will be protected from development under a deal with the Trust for Public Land and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The lands are located near the Crow Wing State Forest in Crow Wing County and near the Pillsbury State Forest in Cass County.

President Clinton's Roadless Area Conservation Rule protected 58 million acres nationwide. In Minnesota, some 65,000 acres were declared roadless, mostly in the Superior National Forest.

As projects go, this one was truly ground-breaking. For the last five years, volunteers from across the state collected seeds from native plants growing along local roads.

General Electric's strategy of pursuing environmentally friendly business has given its Greenville site new jobs making wind turbines, softening the blow of layoffs that cut the plant's work force by more than 600 jobs in the past three years.

Greg Sanders once stalked his chief nemesis -- an otter nicknamed Phoky -- for 24 days. When Sanders, a biologist, finally captured the critter at Southern California's Anacapa Island, he shipped Phoky north to Monterey under an ambitious federal program to preserve otters while protecting shellfish divers from natural competition.