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• Afghanistan: Environmental degradation in a fragile ecological setting Daud Saba/Int. J Sustain. Dev. World Ecol. 8 (2001)

• World's Fragile Ecosystems Nearing Point of Total Collapse: Next 30 Years Critical - mindfully.org 31may02

• 77 Tons of DU used at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge: A Deceptively Pretty Place -  Bloomington Alternative (Indiana) 22jun03

• Fungi and Humans: How All Species Are Related Grows More Precise, Complex  - Wall Street Journal 13jun03

• Desertification is Both a Cause and a Consequence of Poverty - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan / Press Release 12jun03

• Nature Conservancy Accused of Drilling for Gas Under Breeding Ground of Endangered Bird - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 5jun03

• ELF Strikes Twice in 48 Hours Against Urban Sprawl: California and Michigan -  Earth Liberation Front & AP 4jun03

• Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP  - E Magazine 5may03

• How the Bush Administration Uses the Judicial System to Weaken Environmental Protections (Executive Summary) - Defenders of Wildlife 2ma03

• The War May Entail Ecological Disaster in the World  - Deutsche Welle (Germany) 22mar03

• Pacific Lumber Goes After Remedy's Home Tree Jerry and Other Tree-Sitters  - Earth First!/Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters 20mar03

• Tailspinning Bird Populations Highlight Biodiversity Crisis -  Worldwatch Institute Press Release 13mar03

• Bush Forest Plan: Cut Down the Forest to Save It  - SF Chronicle 7mar03

• Hundreds of Yellowstone Bison Killed for Roaming - ENS 6mar03

• Alaskan Native Activists Take a Firm Stand Against Oil and Gas, Launching a New Alliance - Drillbits & Tailings v.8, n.2, 28feb03

• U'wa Demand Immediate Withdrawal of Ecopetrol From Our Sacred Land - Drillbits & Tailings v.8, n.2, 28feb03

• Humboldt County sues Pacific Lumber over Fraud  - AP 26feb03

• American Indian Jailed for Feeding Deer - AP 13feb03

• Afghanistan: UNEP Report Chronicles Environmental Damage Of The Afghanistan Conflict - UNEP Press Release 29jan03

• National Park Service Privatization: 70% of Jobs in Park Service Marked Ripe for Privatizing  - LA Times 26jan03

• Rules on Environment Concern Pentagon: Military Says Laws Inhibit Training  - Washington Post 13jan02

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• The Skeptical Environmentalist Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty - Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03

• George Bush's War on Nature  - Salon 6jan03

• ELF Torches SUVs in Erie, Pennsylvania - ELF Press Release 2jan03

• DMZ: The Land That War Protected - Ke Chung Kim & E. O. Wilson / NY Times 10dec02

• Global Analysis Finds Nearly Half The Earth Is Still Wilderness - Press Release / Conservation Int. 4dec02

• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Timber Certification Tainted: Rainforest Foundation - ENS 20nov02

• Bush Opens Yellowstone to More Snowmobiles  - ENS 13nov02

• Red Legged Frog Habitat Protections Overturned - ENS 11nov02

• Viagra Swells Scarce Animal Count  - ENS 7nov02

• Former Humboldt County Sheriff Dennis Lewis and Chief Deputy Gary Philp can be sued for pepper spraying incident  - AP 4nov02

• Estimating the Size of the World's Threatened Flora  - Science 1nov02

• EF!/FBI Case Post-Trial Motions Scheduled  - BACH 28oct02

• Disney’s Deceit Tarnishes Jiminy Cricket’s Mission - John F Borowski 27oct02

• Enforcement of Environmental Laws has Slipped - NY Times 1oct02

• Bees’ Needs  - Press Release 20sep02

• Bush Thinning Plan Cuts Too Deep: Suspends Review Process  - SF Chronicle 10sep02

• ELF Attacks U.S. Forest Service Research Facility in Irvine, PA - Press Release 3sep02

• Humboldt judge orders halt to Pacific Lumber Co. timber cuts  - AP 30aug02

• The Myth of 'Thinning' Forests - Chad Hanson / SF Chronicle 26aug02

• Market Fails To Capture Nature's Value  - Wall Street Journal 9aug02

• Resilient Sequoias Witness Inferno - SF Chronicle  25jul02

• California red-legged frog loses 4 million protected acres  -  SF Chronicle 4jul02

• Skeptical Environmentalist:  Media Sheep  - Commentary / Worldwatch Institute 2jul02

• Plants 'Speak' Using Versatile Volatiles  -  Science v.296, n.5577 28jun02

• As Trees Die, Some Cite the Climate - NY Times 25jun02

• Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25jun02

• Crashing Fish Stocks Around the World - Fishlink Subgills 6jun02

• Rare Iguanas in Galapagos Are Victims of Oil Spill -  NY Times 5jun02

• Spreading 'Mad Deer' Plague Leaves U.S. Scientists Baffled  -  Wall Street Journal 24may02

• Should U.N. Make the Moon Off-Limits for Development? -  Wall Street Journal 24may02

• New Proposal to Aid Mountaintop Mining  - AP 30apr02

• Edward Abbey: A Vow Is Kept, a Void Is Left -  NY Times 29apr02

• State Of The Planet Is Getting Worse But For Many It's Still "business As Usual'  - UNEP Release 15may02

• Asymmetric Indications of Extinction  -  Sciences et Avenir May02

• Democrats Assail Shift in Superfund Cleanup -  Washington Post 11apr02

• Myth of World Forest Cover Shattered - ENS 4apr02

• Environmental Activist John Francis Spent 17 Years in Silence and Eschewed Cars for 22 - SF Chronicle Magazine 6jan02

• Afghanistan Faces an Environmental Crisis  - New Scientist 2jan02

• Property Rights Groups, Feds Face Off in Nevada  - AP 27dec01

• Bonnie Urfer to serve 5 months Will not pay for poles cut during ELF facility protest  -  Ashland (WI) Daily Press 13dec01

• Conservation Implications of the Link between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning  - Oecologia v.129, n.4 Dec01

• The Sacking of Science at Interior  -  LA Times 25nov01

• Fertility treatments are being used to preserve rare animals - The Economist 17nov01

• Don't use terror as excuse to exploit nature  - Tom Dustin / News Sentinel 15nov01

• Insects an ally for healthy forests  -  The Oregonian 31oct01

• Tree-Spiking Charges Against Frank Ambrose Dismissed  - Bloomington Herald-Times 13sep01

• Liberty Coal to open new coal mine in Harco, Illinois  - AP 30aug01

• Leakey Warns of Mass Extinctions  - ENS 23aug01

• Human Arrogance and the Decline of the Earth -  Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. / Healing Our World 11aug01

• Spatial pollination patterns in an experimentally fragmented landscape - (abstract) ESA 9aug01

• Linking Habitat Areas Vital for Survival of California Wildlife - SF Chronicle 7aug01

• Are potential behavioral effects caused by pesticide exposure contributing to the decline of terrestrial amphibians? -  (abstract) ESA 7aug01

• Human impacts change parasite dynamics through host reservoirs and the role of abiotic factors -  (abstract) 7aug01

• Is prescribed fire effective in restoring eastern forest soils under heavy atmospheric N loading? -  (abstract) 6aug01

• Earth Liberation Front releases video encouraging Membership   -  AP 27jul01

• ELF Vandalism at Kentucky Power Plant  - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 23jul01

• ELF: Vandalism Suspects Say They're Part of ELF - World-Herald (Omaha, NE) 20jul01

• Fish Really are Smaller: Adaptation to Overfishing  - Boston Globe 15jul01

• Biggest Elephant Relocation Effort Is Underway in East Africa's Kenya  - AP 5jul01

• Vast Chilean wilderness saved Bay Area tycoon reaches sanctuary agreement with government  - SF Chronicle 4jul01

• S.U.V.'s, Golf, Even Peas Join Eco-Vandals' Hit List  - New York Times 1jul01

• The Importance of Vision -  Rachel's n.727 (parts 1&2) 21jun01

• Indiana Tree-sitter Last Obstacle to Project: Tracy "Dolphin" McNeely -  Herald-Times 14jun01

• Babbitt: Former Interior Secretary in Development Deal of San Simeon  - LA Times 6jun01

• Berkeley Marina's Fecund Ground Squirrels Birth-Control  -  SF Chronicle 4jun01

• Earth Liberation Front Stepping Up Arson Campaign  - AP 2jun01

• Conservation implications of the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning  - Oecologia 1jun01

• ESA: Appeals court halts logging in Northwest forests -  LA Times 1jun01

• Maxxam SLAPPs Mattole Defenders  - Karen Pickett / Earth First! May/Jun01

• U.S. Navy Asks to be Exempted from Federal Law Forbidding Harassment or Killing of Whales  -  LA Times 26apr01

• Ten Arrested in Washington Bush Environment  Protest  -  Planet Ark 20apr01

• Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition  - (Wash Post article + abstract) Nature 12apr01

• Safety in Numbers (Biodiversity) -  New Scientist 11apr01

• Mary Demkovich Tree-Sitter takes spot in area woodlands  -  Herald-Times (IN) 2apr01

• Ambrose Protest defused with no arrests -  Indianapolis Star 2apr01

• Bush's Choice for Interior Department's Lawyer Drawing Environmentalists Fire (bio included)  - Idaho Statesman 1apr01

• ELF Targets Federal Offices  - AP 15mar01

• ELF urges ‘militant’ action against FBI  -  Herald-Times 15mar01

• Animals Near Extinction Being Frozen  -  ENN 15mar01

• John Fahey, Inventive Guitarist dies at 61 - A Great Loss - LA Times 24feb01

• Species Protection Hits Budgetary Wall  - Christian Science Monitor 16feb01

• The Boy Who Cried 'ELF'  - Wall Street Journal 14feb01

• The FBI's Current Campaign Against Activism in Indiana: The Case of Frank Ambrose  - Peoples Bark News / 2feb01

• Northern coho salmon considered for state endangered list  -  AP2feb01

• Afghanistan: Geothermal Energy in Afghanistan: Prospects and Potential - Daud Saba et al 1feb04

• Highlights of the OECD Environmental Outlook - Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) 2001

• Frank Ambrose says he’s Innocent  -  Herald-Times (Indiana) 26jan01

• Environmentalist is accused of ecoterrorism used to thwart logging in Indiana -  Indianapolis Star 26jan01

• Grasses, not Lawns, Good for Chain of Lakes  -  Times of NW IN 22jan01

• Quake Victims Pin Blame on Developers Builders Ignored Warnings  - SFC 17jan01

• Eco-warriors wage stealth campaign Elusive band hits 'Earth-rapers' -  Boston Globe 16jan01

• A Cutback in Crabbing Quotas Leaves St. Paul, Alaska Scrambling to Save Its Lifestyle  -  WSJ 15jan01

• U.S. Shifts Policy on Sierra -- Trees, Wildlife Protected - SFC 13jan01

• Oil Drilling in Alaska Looms As Legislative Test for Bush -  WSJ 12jan01

• Justices' Ruling Could Affect Scores of California Wetlands -  SFC 11jan01

• Trout Program Slashed to Save Frog -  SFC 11jan01

• Feds Bar Rare Zebra From Breeding - AP 9jan01

• Afghanistan's Natural Heritage: Problems and Perspectives - Daud Saba / Lemar-Aftaab January - December 2001 1jan01

• Federal plan to save salmon avoids breaching Snake River dams -  AP22 dec00

• Oil Companies Agree to Protect Rights in Remote Areas - NYT 20dec00

• Whales: The Old Men of the Sea -  San Jose Mercury News 19dec00

• Congress Adds Land To Sequoia Park  - SFC 19dec00

• Visiting Luna  - Julia Butterfly Hill Dec00

• Conservation groups go for final push -  USA Today 14dec00

• House Republicans Allege FDIC Lawsuit Forced a Land-for-Debt Deal with Hurwitz -  WSJ 13dec00

• Forest Service overseer seeks preservation of old growth - Oregonian 13dec00

• Thousands of Salmon Eggs Destroyed By Puget Sound Energy's Dam Shut-Off -  WSJ 13dec00

• Clinton OKs  'Everglades' Restoration - AP 12dec00

• Madagascar Sapphire Search Creating Economic Rifts, Health Crises -  SFC 11dec00

• Order bars 170 sales of timber in region -  Oregonian 9dec00

• Study offers clues to loss of state's rare amphibians -  San Jose Mercury News 8dec00

• BLM Rethinks Access for Off-Road Vehicles -  Oregonian 5dec00

• Fighting for the Frogs to keep amphibians from disappearing in High Sierra - SFC 4dec00

• Green groups bare teeth at ESA moratorium - ENN 29nov00

• Vandals Slash Giant Redwood Tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill's former home chain-sawed - SFC 28nov00

• Clear-Cutting Done With Eye to Appearance (really!) - AP 26nov00

• Park Service to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone, Grand Teton - AP 23nov00

• Brower on the Yosemite Valley Plan - David R. Brower / SFC 20nov00

• For kids' sake, let butterfly EIR proceed - PAUL R. EHRLICH / SFC 19nov00

• Voices of the Earth Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity / UNEP

• USDA Unleashing Brazilian Phorid Flies to Eat Fire Ants - AP 16nov00

• Isolated Yanomami people of Venezuela were Corrupted by UC Anthropologist, Napoleon Chagnon - SFC 16nov00

• Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt unveils Yosemite Restoration Plan  - AP 15nov00

• Monkey Brain Wired to Control Robot Arm  -  AP 15nov00

• Logging protests escalate with 'Striptease for the trees' -  AP 12nov00

• World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican Fund for Natural Conservation pay for conserving monarch sanctuaries - AP 9nov00 

• Forest DIS-Service Suit says Feds failed to protect fast-fading California spotted owl - sfbg.com 8nov00|

• David Brower, teacher, 1912-2000 - sfbg.com 8nov00

• Bees Glowing paint may highlight the forces that make insects fly  - Scientific American May00

• Mine Production Statistics of Selected Non-Fuel Minerals 1995-2000 - From U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2001.

• Commentary: Recuperation from Mass Extinctions  - PNAS 23nov99

• Albatros: PCBs, DDE, DDT, and TCDD-EQ in Two Species of Albatross on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean - Env. Tox. Chem.  Mar97

• Birds Rescued in Oil Spills Do Poorly, Study Finds: Many die within months, a survey in California reports -  New York Times 12nov1996

• Two Views of the World - Lester Brown / Amicus Journal Winter 1991

• Map of Strip-Mined Areas of S.W. Indiana Source: Indiana Geologic Survey Misc. Map 15 as of 1980