Sunday, June 10, 2007 Private gardens go public Tour secret oases Saturday By Kathleen Wereszynski Murray Poughkeepsie Journal Kathy Donohue and her sister, Peg, have planted weeping beech, pine and cherry trees throughout their Hyde Park mini-estate, built in 1919 for the manager employed by Frederick and Louisa Vanderbilt. Sunday, June 10, 2007 Private gardens go public Tour secret oases Saturday By Kathleen Wereszynski Murray Poughkeepsie Journal Kathy Donohue and her sister, Peg, have...

Credit: Woods Hole Research Center (whrc.org) Though the dense humid forests of Central Africa have been regarded as among the most pristine on Earth, the expansion of industrial logging and the accompanying proliferation of road density are threatening the future of this important ecosystem. Credit: Woods Hole Research Center (whrc.org) Though the dense humid forests of Central Africa have been regarded as among the most pristine on Earth, the expansion of industrial logging and the...

Sequoia forest fire burns 1,500 more acres Another fire near a reservation is mostly contained By David Castellon Staff writer Post Comment High winds Tuesday in the Sequoia National Forest in southern Tulare County helped a fire raging since Sunday to burn through an additional 1,500 acres of forest and threaten two small communities near Kernville. Sequoia forest fire burns 1,500 more acres Another fire near a reservation is mostly contained By David Castellon Staff writer Post Comment...

This is a man informed about the behavior of fire - about its tendencies to blast over hillsides and through canyons, to jump across roads and giant boulders, and to glow in wild and disturbing colors. Rather than a firefighter or a scientist studying the properties of fire, Maclean is a writer and the author of such fire-related books as "Fire and Ashes" and "Fire on the Mountain," as well as the volume he helped publish after his father Norman Maclean's death, "Young Men and Fire....

Lamy's comments reinforced the upbeat mood at last week's Group of Eight summit, where leaders of the world's richest nations called for the long-delayed round of global trade talks to reach a prompt conclusion. Mandelson said Russia's imposition of export duties on timber "caused me a great deal of concern" because it backtracked on a bilateral deal struck in 2004 intended to pave the way for Russian entry to the WTO. He accused the West of paying lip service to the principle of free...