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Lacey Act: The Diverse Coalition That Supports It and Why Efforts to Weaken It Should Be Resisted

Jake Schmidt | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Illegal Logging, Gibson Guitars, Global Deforestation, Lacey Act, Jobs, Environmental Law, Forests, Timber, Trees, Green News
Jake Schmidt

The Lacey Act is a powerful tool in efforts to stop the destruction of the world's forests, protect American jobs, and help establish rule of law in developing countries.

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The Precocious Joshua Fink Makes 80% On Gold, Copper,Oil , Gas,Timber, Rare Earths

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Gold, Natural Resources, Africa, Brazil, Copper, Timber, Oi, Joshua Fink, Business News
Robert Lenzner

Fink began his natural resources adventure at the age of 23, despite the fervent opposition of his father Larry Fink, the founder and CEO of BlackRock.

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The Tongass and the Battle for the Last Great Trees

Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker) | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tongass, Sealaska Corp., Forest, Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, Timber, Green News
Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker)

The largest national forest in the U.S., the Tongass, will never be seen by most Americans, but it contains the last significany stands of old growth virgin forest in the nation.

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New Zealnd's Kauri Trees Hold Ancient Climate Record That Could Be Lost Within 10 Years

Treehugger | David DeFranza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peat Bogs, Ancient Climate Record, Kauri Trees, New Zealand, Oxford University, Climate Change, New Zealand Kauri Trees, Tree Rings, Tree Climate Record, Timber, Green News

Buried in New Zealand's peat bogs are more than 30,000 ancient climate records containing data that spans back to the last ice age. This data, stored ...

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Beetles Killing Trees In Colorado, Reviving An Industry

Green Inc. | Erik Olsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, Pine Beetle Epidemic, Lumber, Pine Beetle, Timber, Green News

Grand Lake, Colo., is regarded as ground zero for the pine beetle epidemic in the West. The mountainsides are blanketed with dead trees as far as the ...

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News
Jeff Biggers

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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