Guyana has accused the timber company, owned by Samling Global Limited of Sarawak, Malaysia, of failing to report some of the trees harvested in northwestern Guyana, near the border with Venezuela, and illegally excluding logs it purchased from its total production report. GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - A Malaysian timber company fined by Guyana for allegedly underreporting its harvest of trees announced Wednesday it will seek international forestry experts to back its claim that the penalty...

Designed in the early 90s by veteran foresters looking for a balance between protecting species and a predictable timber harvest, the Northwest Forest Plan authors warned that it was not a quick fix. But the timber industry and the Bush administration are in the midst of a major push against those restrictions. Gabriel lives in a modest house on 20 acres in a narrow trough among the hills that rise up to the Coast Range, a place famous for growing some of the worlds tallest trees. To...

For more than 20 years, Malaysia's 9,000 Penan have fought a losing battle to hold back the timber companies that have, by some estimates, stripped 90 per cent of Sarawak's forests. In the process of trying to stop the logging, Penan men and women have suffered beatings, jail, and some have been reduced to penury when their forests have been destroyed. Deep in the mountainous interior of Borneo, in one of the few great forests of Sarawak to survive the depredations of loggers, a tribe of...

By Cicely Richardson for Journal Opinion BRADFORD, Vermont (STPNS) -- FAIRLEE West Fairlee and Fairlee residents will be hearing a lot about West Fairlee s proposed Brushwood Community Forest in the coming months as they must make some decisions on town meeting day. By Cicely Richardson for Journal Opinion BRADFORD, Vermont (STPNS) -- FAIRLEE West Fairlee and Fairlee residents will be hearing a lot about West Fairlee s proposed Brushwood Community Forest in the coming months as they must...

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist Published:Sunday, October 28, 2007 It may not be possible to reverse a provincial government decision to allow Western Forest Products to pull private land out of tree-farm licences, but some areas need to be preserved as parkland, says Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Keith Martin. Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist Published:Sunday, October 28, 2007 It may not be possible to reverse a provincial government decision to allow Western Forest Products to pull private land...