They didn't get a vote in the boardroom, though, and the company has hung a "for sale" sign on its forest holdings, convinced by a billionaire investor into joining a land divestment trend within the industry. The result of Temple-Inland's decision in February to split three ways and relinquish its trees has been rampant uncertainty, both for the forests the company has harvested, planted and protected for more than a century and people who have long depended on them. newslettersrss...

The Hills had oxygen equipment installed on the second floor, which pumped air through a tube down the stairs, across the foyer and into the living room. On June 29, 2004, a technician arrived several hours late to assemble it in the family's living room, just off the home's two-story foyer, Hill's attorneys allege. Hill, converted the living room into a bedroom, kept a baby monitor at her side and acquired a hospital bed to keep her more comfortable. Mulvihill explained that once a fire...

Cannabis which is grown for medicinal use is of a species which is grown for the flowers, and they tend to be SHORT, FAT, XMAS tree looking plants, taking up about a 2-3 ft circle per plant. Farmers Dave Monson and Wayne Hauge last month were issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp, a cousin of marijuana that falls under federal anti-drug rules even though it does not produce a high. Johnson acknowledged that federal law does not require the DEA to decide on applications...

Luke Starkey quickly swung into action upon spotting a distant white cloud last week while manning the Mount Agamenticus fire tower in western York County. In no time, radio transmissions shattered the quiet of his tiny post atop the tower as dispatchers and firefighters prepared to respond to the fire in a remote area of Lebanon. After some searching, firefighters were able to find the fire just over the border in Lebanon. Ideally, volunteers in the towers work together to pinpoint a...

On the upland site, he marked sweet gum and pine that were very old or were crooked and taking up space (sunlight and nutrients) for straighter trees. So, by taking care of your big dollar trees, you'll protect the environment better than anyone, create forests that will regularly produce income, produce all the timber we need and maintain great areas to hunt and fish. On the bottomland site, he marked primarily sweetgum, sycamore, green ash and oaks (those that are very old and diseased)...