May 26-29, 2006 HEALING MOUNTAINS The 16th Annual Heartwood Forest Council & 6th Annual Summit for the Mountains Join us for this important national conference, the largest-ever gathering of folks working to STOP the devastation of Mountaintop Removal coal mining.…

It’s all dogwood and lilacs this time of year up here in the mountains. We’ve been spending a lot of time sitting on the front porch in Todd, NC, almost watching the buds burst into leaves on the sugar maples…

Those of you who have been involved in the fight to end mountaintop removal for a while will be surprised to learn that we’ve been barking up the wrong tree all along. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources,…

As astute news-watchers know, a number of Christian evangelicals have recently emerged as leaders in the struggle to get the polluter-friendly politicians running the country to take global warming seriously. Now, a group of polluter-friendly Christian evangelicals have set up…

[Texas] The groups will offer a resolution at Kimberly-Clark’s shareholder meeting Thursday calling on the company to report by Nov. 1 on whether it could phase out the use of fiber from old-growth Canadian forests that environmentalists say are threatened…

[Vermont] In Ohio and New England, and through Canada, the maple sugaring season starts and ends earlier than a generation ago — a sign of warming climate trends…. for the last two years, the Marshes have tapped their maples in…

[Arkansas] Much like the bird that drew attention to it, Bayou de View — where birders reported seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker — is critically endangered, researchers said Thursday. University of Arkansas at Fayetteville graduate students spent last fall slogging through…

[Mississippi] In the late 1980s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service served notice that it would likely put the Louisiana black bear on its endangered species list. Unfortunately, an Endangered Species Act listing can provoke fear among landowners who believe…

Presentations from the Energy from Wood Conference at NC State University in March, 2006 are now available online. The conference explored potential benefits of wood biomass utilization for energy production and identified needs for further research. North Carolina Cooperative Extention…

This just in – the Tennessee legislature has passed a bill that gives the state authority to shut down surface mines if they are in violation of the law, rather than having to go through a lot of red tape.…