Forest Dweller ; City Man's Vision Grew into Backyard Woodland
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By Stories by REBECCA ROYBAL JONES For the Journal Photographs by PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  Back in 1953, Wyoming Boulevard was the edge of Albuquerque, not the busy thoroughfare it is today. The road was dusty. It was quiet.
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By Paul Burgarino, STAFF WRITER  SAN RAMON -- A boisterous group of residents packed into City Council chambers this week, concerned about the environmental and aesthetic effects of a proposed land-use plan just outside the city's northwest border.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 15--From Bob Bendick, director of the Southern Region of The Nature Conservancy:   I flew across the South from New Orleans to Charlotte. While the people around me read papers and stared into computer screens, I looked out the window.
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NGAMBE-TIKAR, Cameroon  - From outside, Cameroon's Ngambe-Tikar forest looks like a compact, tangled mass of healthy emerald green foliage.
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By Eric Olson  OMAHA, Neb. - Fred Jaeger doesn't care what the National Arbor Day Foundation says. He's not going to attempt planting magnolia trees on his land in a Utah mountain valley.   He'll stick with Canadian chokecherries and ash.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--The Coast's embattled urban trees are about to receive two types of help on Friday.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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By NO BYLINE  A CITY woodland is being given a GBP 200,000 makeover with new paths, wardens and thousands of trees.   Work will begin on improving Colinton and Craiglockhart Dells next month thanks to the grant from Forestry Commission Scotland.
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By PEGGY ANDERSEN, Associated Press writer  SEATTLE  In the past quarter century, this Emerald City in the Evergreen State has lost nearly 1.7 million trees  roughly half the urban forest that shaded yards, parks and open spaces  to population growth, lax maintenance and view seekers.
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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The holes he wanted to fill were for fence posts. The grass he needed was for cattle. The sticks he used were for campfires.
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 13--WOOD RIVER -- Anthony Schroeder and his brother Chris want to leave their old neighborhood better than they found it, so they plan to convert 170 acres into a 290 houses for other families while leaving minimal impact on the land.
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Trees bring both comfort and measurable benefits to urban environments. The problem is that roots don't flourish under pavement. Now scientists think they have a solution.
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Mr. Taylorâs projects helped shape skylines in several Southern metropolitan areas.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Wooded Island's "Bird Man" is back -- but that doesn't mean Doug Anderson now approves of measures taken to remove several hundred shrubs and small trees on the bird-lover's paradise.