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A variety of Web sites are gathering names and contact information in an attempt to link landowners with timber on the ground with people who can help them salvage it. Glenn Hughes, Mississippi State University Extension Service forester, said Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the standing timber in South Mississippi, and landowners are working now to salvage what they can.

Merve Wilkinson's directions to his home are direct: Leave the Trans-Canada Highway at old Cedar Road, drive uphill before turning right at the Chuckwagon Market, go past Yellow Point Lodge, then hang a left onto Crane Road. "You'll see a green gate," he advises. "It's always open."

The danger of a 16,000-acre forest in southeast Ohio being sold to developers or broken up into small private plots has state officials so worried they want to buy it.

Some 13 million hectares of forests are destroyed around the world each year, an area the size of Greece, although the net loss of trees has finally slowed thanks mainly to new plantations, the United Nations said on Monday.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)and Portland, Ore., consulting firm Forest Products Solutions have announced that Goldman Sachs will receive the first annual Designing & Building with FSC Award for their new building at 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, N.J.

On a common-sense level, it is obvious. When a forest burns, the trees are dead. So you cut them down, haul them to the sawmill, and plant new ones. Soon the blackened hillsides will be covered with healthy green trees.

A forest that is home to a rare tree species found only on the Galapagos Islands is threatened by fire set by an erupting volcano, officials said Sunday. There are only 400 specimens of the Scalesia-Cordata tree left in the world, press reports said Sunday. The species has succumbed over the years to pressure from imported goats and cattle as well as insects.

A Gallatin National Forest timber sale sidelined by court cases spanning nearly six years has been upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing the sale to proceed over objections it threatens wildlife habitat near Yellowstone National Park.