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Standing Trees, a Vermont-based forest advocacy group, alleges the Forest Service violated federal law by failing to adequately investigate the projects’ potential environmental impacts and explore less harmful alternatives.

March is maple sugaring season in New Hampshire.The latest outing in our "Five Easy Hikes in Five Weeks" series celebrated this traditional rite of Spring…

The London musicians complement their surroundings with everything that makes their music work: disarmingly plainspoken charm, ragged beauty, and uniqueness that blooms naturally.

Woodland forest fires are burning with such power and size, no one can remember anything like it. The problem with fires of this intensity is that the forests can't recover — they are completely destroyed.

One piece of public land, two very different perspectives about how to use it, and the agency that somehow has to appease them both.

The U.S. Forest Service cancels a Clinton administration policy that banned road building in nearly 60 million acres of national forests. The agency also sets out a new policy that will give governors a say in what happens in these areas. Critics say they will fight the change, which they say opens pristine wilderness to commercial interests.

The U.S. Forest Service has always had to balance economic and recreational needs. But lately, scientific research has become a bigger part of the agency's mission. In the first of two reports, Elizabeth Arnold profiles researchers looking for evidence of climate change in a forest canopy.

Hotels have collected a record $2.25 billion in fees this year. That's a 6 percent jump over last year and nearly twice that of a decade ago.

Germany's dense green spruce forests are being decimated by parasites and climate change. It's unclear if planting different kinds of trees would help stop the decline.

Cheadle stars in the new film Hotel Rwanda playing a hotel manager who shelters over a 1,000 refugees from genocide. It's based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina. Cheadle's other films include Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Ocean's Eleven, and Traffic. This interview was originally broadcast on April 6, 2004.