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NATIONAL NEWS
Inquiry begins into Forest Service negotiations - Federal investigators inquire about Plum Creek, Forest Service talks, Daily Herald AP
Are the ways fires are fought and prevented firewise? - Billions spent on wildfire-fighting strategy widely regarded as ineffective, Idaho Statesman
Burning up budgets, Baker City Herald
Inexperienced attorneys can botch public land cases - Department of Justice often assigns new lawyers to defend Forest Service, Capital Press

Enviros decry Bush admin revisions to mining regs, Land Letter at American Lands Alliance
Three Great Challenges Facing Forestry: Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell, USFS
New Group Releases Forest Investment Zones Call for Pre-proposals, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
In Nature, What We Need Is Quiet, Albuquerque Journal op-ed
WORLD NEWS
Logging companies look to flip forests in B.C., The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
New life in burned forest - A walk through fire-ravaged forest reveals green shoots emerging from ashes, The Halifax Herald
New Clayoquot conflict looms over logging - But this time around, area First Nations could line up against environmentalists, Victoria Times Colonist
Government spin on forest industry not new - From coastal decline to the Interior pine beetle, we don't get the full story, Victoria Times Colonist

NORTHERN REGION (Region 1):
Montana and Northern Idaho
Inquiry begins into Forest Service negotiations - Federal investigators inquire about Plum Creek, Forest Service talks, Daily Herald AP
Plum Creek takes right approach, Daily Inter Lake editorial
Citations Issued in the Bitterroot NF, Bitterroot Quiet Use Coalition
Race fight: 2 whites arrested in attack - The workers pick and sell mushrooms that grow in the aftermath of forest fires, The Daily InterLake
Seminar set on ancient oaks, McCook Daily Gazette
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION (Region 2):
Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming
Coalition: Overhaul roadless rule - Current proposal puts habitat in danger, sportsmen say, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Camping Day on Pikes Peak, KRDO Colorado Springs
County seeks site for beetle-killed tree debris - Neighbors thwart plan to buy land for slash drop-off, Boulder Daily Camera
Waging war on weeds, Casper Star-Tribune
SOUTHWESTERN REGION (Region 3):
Arizona and New Mexico
Coronado National Forest Rosemont Copper Project: Notice of Solicitation of Interest and Eligibility of Federal and Non-Federal Cooperating Agencies, Federal Register
We've been betrayed by the U.S. Forest Service, Green Valley News & Sun letter

Massive Cave-In Created Caldera, Albuquerque Journal
PACIFIC NORTHWEST (Region 6):
Oregon and Washington
Chehalis floods blamed on clearcuts - State and Weyerhaeuser point to catastrophic nature of storm, Capital Press
Purple mountain - Transform the mothballed Coldwater Ridge visitor center into a camp, and Mount St. Helens into a national park, The Oregonian
Logging's legacy lives, Baker City Herald
Burning up budgets, Baker City Herald
Man pursues dream of coast trail, Corvallis Gazette-Times
City moves to clear some land in watershed - A fire in the area could seriously damage the watershed's ability to filter snow and rain runoff, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Owls not to blame for forest problems, Eugene Register-Guard op-ed
SOUTHERN REGION (Region 8):
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

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