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Boise Cascade Sees the Light By Darci Andresen, AlterNet
On Wednesday Sept. 3, Boise Cascade, the number one logger on U.S. public lands in the 1990s, released a landmark policy agreeing to halt its logging of endangered and old growth forests in the U.S. and abroad. It also committed itself to responsible forest management practices, including a decision to give preference to wood harvested from certified “sustainably managed” forests.

Stand of giant cottonwoods found in southeastern B.C.
By Margaret Munro
A grove of giant cottonwood trees that rival Canada's famed coastal cedars and firs in both age and girth has been discovered in the southern Rockies.

The trees are close to 400 years old and up to 10 metres around.

"They are, by far, the oldest known cottonwoods in the world," says Stewart Rood, a tree specialist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, who describes the trees in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Botany.

The football field-sized stand of arboreal giants is beside the Elk River in southeastern B.C.

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