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The Monarch is arguably America's favorite insect. It's also in danger of losing its principle resting place. NPR's John Nielsen reports satellite photos reveal a recent and rapid disappearance of the mountainside forests in Mexico that serve as the roosting place for migrating Monarchs.

NPR's Alex Chadwick traipses through an Australian forest custom-grown for koala bears. He learns that koalas have the finicky appetites of toddlers -- they eat eucalyptus leaves, or nothing at all.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on preparations for what's expected to be another bad wildfire season in the West. But federal agencies are also getting the jump on fires by setting prescribed burns in some forests, in an effort to prevent them from burning out of control.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Cornwall, England, where the curtain goes up tomorrow on the world's largest greenhouse. The "Eden Project" -- with its tropical rain forest under a giant geodesic dome -- is a huge conservation project for endangered plant species.

New Hampshire foresters are closely watching the movements of an exotic beetle known as the Emerald Ash Borer. Just last month the U-S Forest Service…

The U.S. Forest Service is waiving fees at most of its day-use recreation sites, including those in the White Mountain National Forest, over the Veterans…

A logger in Wisconsin uses a draft horse to pull pine trees out of the forest. Nick Van Der Puy reports that the horse can haul half as much as a logging truck, but is cheaper to maintain and causes less damage to the woods.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that President Bush has delayed a ban on road-building and most logging in a third of the country's national forests. The ban was put in place in the final days of the Clinton administration.

North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports that environmental groups are trying to persuade the timber industry to label wood and paper products that are produced from logs that are harvested in ways that help sustain forests. Such products would carry a "green" label.

Nevada historian Frank Wright tells us a little about the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, which was torn down this morning. He says it was part of the second generation of hotels - a high rise, coming after an era of bungalows. It's the place where the Frank Sinatra gang "The Rat Pack" performed in the 50's and 60's.