Existing wilderness does not experience fire in excess of logged over areas, and some data suggests logged over areas are actually far more fire prone. Sunday, June 3, 2007 The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (HR1975) proposes that Congress designate a 23-million-acre wilderness - a designation that would cause forest ecosystems to suffer immensely and great economic damage throughout Montana and several adjacent Western states! Pre-settlement Western forests were shaped by fire....

The international environmental lobby group has welcomed a decision by timber company Gunns and Forestry Tasmania to immediately end the practice whereby plantations take the place of logged native forest. WWF says over the past ten years, well over 100,000 hectares of Tasmania's native forest across public and private land has been converted to plantation. WWF Australia program leader, Paul Toni, says native forest and other vegetation on private land is still at risk. The World Wildlife...

Hot, dry weather increasing forest fire risk within region Following a period of hot, dry weather last week, the Foothills forest region was now in its first significant drying trend of the season. Higher temperatures, no anticipated precipitation and lower humidity meant fire hazard levels have ramped up considerably from low to moderate to extremely high in some areas of the region, Foothills communications manager Leslie-Anne Chapman said. Forestry crews were ready to tackle impending...

One of the patriarchs of the land rights rebellion in his own right, he has collected a series of essays written by a number of free-market environmentalists. A reaction to regulations that have allowed our government to effectively destroy the value of a parcel of land without having to compensate the owner for it. Even more than in the tropic and temperate forests, the effect on the soil of clear cutting is hard to reverse. They are not only threatened by rapacious and completely...

I urge all market operators to market the sale of the hotel as private sector responsibility is to drive the economy while government is to create enabling environment which is what we are doing. The Governor said Akwa Ibom is not a civil service state but industrially driven by the private sector, hence the need to embrace the capital market which will engender the economic development of the state and the people in general. In his remark, he further said " It is our deliberate commitment...