Each time a news report about a timber conviction appeared, the phones at the forestry commission would start ringing, said Ken Cabe, a spokesman for the South Carolina agency. Without the threat of possible jail time or a big money judgment against them, timber thieves operate unchecked, police and experts say. But theft, especially when timber prices are up, is also booming. The first thing they're going to ask you is, 'What murder case or drug case do you want me to drop to look into...

Forest Service is removing dead trees and planting new ones, but officials say it will take decades for the forest to recover. Forest Service's long-term plan for burned areas of the Sitgreaves National Forest: removing what burned from selected areas, planting anew and letting nature handle the rest. What was lost in a matter of days in Arizona's largest wildfire will take more than 100 years to replace, and the forest won't ever look like it once did, according to Gayle Richardson, a...

But in the 1980s, federal forest policy shifted away from logging, and timber sales plummeted. When the stopgap expired last year, counties like Alpine -- where 92 percent of the land is national forest -- found themselves short by $425 million nationwide. That aid was a stopgap measure to replace an older program that gave them 25 percent of the timber harvest money from forests in their boundaries. Alpine is one of the mountainous counties where schools could be facing big budget cuts...

He was instrumental in the settlement of the softwood lumber dispute, which returned billions of dollars to the Canadian lumber industry. He has guided the Company through difficult markets and operational challenges and has positioned Canfor to take advantage of growth opportunities by having one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry. At the annual general meeting, eight directors will stand for election, five current directors and three new nominees. Apr 06 2007 With its annual...

And face it, everybody has better things to do than try to remember when they bought that stray can of kidney beans or opened the mystery jar of pasta sauce. That's because some of those old ingredients in the back of your pantry likely have lost flavor or potency, or worse yet, could make you sick. During the past five to 10 years, it's become almost standard practice in packaged food industry to include some sort of date coding, says Allen Matthys, vice president of federal and state...