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When the DuPage County Forest Preserve District campaigned to raise $75 million to acquire open space in the fast-growing county in 1997, one official remarked, 'This is our last chance [...]

The American Electric Power Foundation (based in Columbus, Ohio) on July 13 announced a US$2 million donation to fund reforestation and conservation of 22,500 acres of forestland in Guatemala. The [...]

According to 'Tehran Times', so far around 2,100,000 hectares of the country's deserts have turned into forests, said deputy minister of Agricultural Jihad. According to the Public Relations Office of [...]

The article reports that a provision in the $285 billion U.S. farm bill that could pave the way for a nonprofit conservation group to buy Montana forest land from Plum Creek Timber Co. might prove to be that measure's latest stumbling block. The provision sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has drawn objections from House Republicans for its cost and tightly drawn language. House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Jim McCrery said that it is tantamount to an earmark.

The article discusses the Abong gold project's permitting activities located in the Province of Aceh, Indonesia by Canadian-based minerals exploration company Barisan Gold Corp. It states that the government gave approval to Barisan Gold for suspension of Izin Usaha Pertambangan (IUP). It informs that the company received support from the Province of Aceh to proceed its application with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry for a borrow-use forestry permit at its Abong gold project.

Reports on the criticism the United States Forest Service (USFS) is receiving in the late 1990s. Concerns that the USFS wastes millions of dollars a year; Statistics on the USFS; Investigation being lead by members of the General Accounting Office (GAO); How the US Department of Agriculture is investigating the land-exchange program; Comments.