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12/28/99--The Future of Canada's Forest in Terms of Carbon Emissions

12/18/99--Canada Wants Farmers in Habitat Plan

12/17/99--Canada: Endangered Federal Legislation for Endangered Species

12/16/99--Conservation Battle Over B.C. Cedar Targets Interfor

12/9/99--British Columbia Forest Plan Overturned

12/1/99--Canada Urged to Protect Wilderness

11/29/99--No More Logging in Vancouver Watershed

11/26/99--Hungry Grizzlies Killed in Canada

11/25/99--Canada Bear Killings Raise Environmental Alarm

11/25/99--Ottawa Vows to Protect Vulnerable Habitats

11/24/99--Grizzly Bears Overrun Village Because of Fishery Collapse

11/24/99--Starving Grizzlies Killed in Canada

11/14/99--Furor Rises in Canada Over Hunt for Grizzly

11/11/99--Sorry Plight of Canadian Innu

11/8/99--Activists Destroy British Columbia Research Trees

11/4/99--Tree Sitters Protest British Columbia Wilderness Logging

11/4/99--Groups Claim Responsibility for Research-tree Destruction

11/2/99--Weyerhaeuser, MacBlo Merger Complete

11/2/99--Protestors Return to Elaho Valley

10/29/99--Canada OK's Weyerhaeuser-MacBlo Merger

10/29/99--New Brunswick Seizes Logs Cut By Natives

10/26/99--Treaty To Grant B.C. Native Timber Rights

10/25/99--Generous Rulings for Canada's Natives Spur Backlash

10/25/99--Loggers Find Canada Rain Forest Flush With Foes

10/15/99--British Columbia Indians Push for Forest Boycott

10/13/99--Eight Protected Areas Recommended for New Brunswick

10/12/99--Birds Heading South Find New Landscapes

10/11/99--B.C. Pursues Native Loggers in Court

10/10/99--Canadian Government's Indifference to Endangered Species

10/8/99--Timber Industry Wants 25% of British Columbia Forests

10/7/99--End of Softwood War Good for B.C. Economy

10/7/99--Stumpage Rates Squeeze Forest Firms

10/6/99--Siska First Nation Blockade Begins to Stop Watershed Destruction

10/5/99--Approval for Change-in-Control to Weyerhaeuser

10/5/99--Clayoquot Tenure for Native Firm OK'd

9/30/99--Canadian Women Blockade Temperate Rainforest Logging Road

9/29/99--Canadian Indians Win Interim Land Rights Victory

9/28/99--Ask Clinton to Urge Canadian Government For Strong Canadian

9/24/99--Westbank Indigenous Nation Begins Logging B.C. Crown Land

9/23/99--B.C. Natives Charged Over Defiant Logging

9/22/99--Woman Offer Themselves for Arrest in the Stoltmann Wilderness

9/21/99--MacBlo Meeting to Vote on Weyerhaeuser Deal

9/20/99--Protestor that was Assaulted Says She Will Sue

9/17/99--B.C. Loggers Assault Protesters, Burn Camp

9/15/99--Violent Canadian Timber Company Employees Demolish Protestors Camp

9/8/99--Mac Blo Takeover Approval May Put B.C. in Legal Bind

9/8/99--Defiant Westbank Indian Band Begins Logging Crown Land in B.C.

9/7/99--Mac Blo Gets Cash, Not Land, for Parks

9/3/99--Public Access to Canada's Oldest Tree Retained

9/2/99--Public Can Visit 1,300 Yr.-Old Douglas Fir in B.C.

9/1/99--Public Locked Out of Stoltmann Wilderness

8/31/99--Fires Blaze Out of Control in Canadian Wilderness

8/31/99--Dozens of Forest Fires Reported in Canada

8/31/99--Canfor to Be Canada's Top Softwood Lumber Firm

8/31/99--B.C. Producers Seek Edge in New Home Depot Policy

8/30/99--Carrier Lumber Decision in B.C. Appealed

8/27/99--Call by Canadian Indigenous Peoples to Halt MacMillan Bloedel Sale

8/27/99--Cash Not Land to Compensate MacMillan Bloedel for Park Land

8/26/99--Illegal Logging in New Brunswick Worries Officials

8/25/99--Canada/US Softwood Stumpage Settlement Reached

8/24/99--Canada and U.S. Strike Timber-Cutting Fee Deal

8/23/99--INTERFOR Crew Endangers Forest Protestors

8/21/99--Loggers Allowed to Dynamite Near Stolen Tree Sitters

8/16/99--Blockade: INTERFOR Gets no Trees for a Week

8/16/99--Canada Halfway to Achieving Millennium Forest Commitment

8/16/99--Canada Creates Three New National Parks

8/12/99--Carrier Lumber Case in B.C. a Tale of Abuse, Arrogance and Deceit

8/11/99--Threats to Stoltmann Tree Sitters in British Columbia

8/10/99--Update on Tree Sitters in the Stoltmann Wilderness

8/9/99-- Canadian Great Bear Wilderness Threatened

8/8/99--The Action in Stoltman is On; Witness Support Needed

8/3/99--Grizzly Bear Recovery Planned in British Columbia

7/29/99--On the Verge of Blockading Interfor in Clayoquot Sound

7/29/99--Virtual Blockade of Canadian Timber Company Begins

7/26/99-- Virtual Blockade of Canadian Timber Company Begins

7/21/99--Weyerhaeuser Commitment to Great Bear Questioned

7/13/99--Weyerhaeuser Endorses MacMillan Bloedel's Forest and Environmental Initiatives in Coastal British Columbia

7/13/99--Weyerhaeuser to Honor MacBlo Forestry Pledge

7/9/99--Logging Foes Rekindle Temagami Dispute; New Minister Urged to Probe Clear-Cut Plan

6/30/99--The Great British Columbia Give-Away

6/28/99--After Buying MacBlo, Weyerhaeuser Won't Commit on Clear-Cutting

6/28/99--Environmentalists Worry Lumber Merger Will Cost Them

6/22/99--MacBlo Deal Impacts Lumber Trade Fight

6/22/99--Friends of Clayoquot Sound Provide Update

6/21/99--Weyerhaeuser Acquires Canadian Timber Company, Clayoquot & Elsewhere at Risk

6/21/99--Weyerhaeuser Co. to Acquire MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., of Canada

6/19/99--Clayoquot Sound, Canada Truce

6/17/99--Agreement reached in Canadian Environmental Battle

6/14/99--Citizens Call for Home Depot Boycott

6/14/99--Oregon-Based Wood Products Company to Buy Canadian Rival

6/14/99--Wise Old Women to the Rescue of Ancient Forests

6/8/99--Foresters Warm to New Methods: Variable Retention System

6/8/99--Home Depot Meeting Bars Indian As Activists 'Reclaim' Wood

6/2/99--Canada's Lack of an Endangered Species Law

5/26/99--FAN's National Day of Action against Home Depot!

5/17/99--B.C. Indians Present Anti-Logging Resolution at Home Depot

5/10/99-- Timberwest to Phase Out Clearcutting

5/10/99--Second West Canadian Forester to End Clear-Cutting

5/7/99--Remote Canada Town Ponders Life after Economic Death

5/6/99--Mi'Kmaq Crown Logging

5/5/99--Beetle Invader Damaging Canada's Pine Forests

4/29/99--Legal Action Outlawing Boycotts Going Back to Court

4/29/99--Canadian Endangered Species List Grows

4/23/99--Profit at Canada Forest Giant MacBlo Doubles

4/15/99--British Columbia Cool to Privatization of Forests

4/5/99--Ontario Moves to Protect Land from Loggers

3/30/99--Northern Ontario Land-Grab Ignores Treaty Rights

3/25/99--Canada Hit With NAFTA Claim for Softwood Quota

3/10/99-- Some Ancient Pine forests in Ontario, Canada Will Be Protected

3/9/99--Canadian Foresters Warned on Environmental Standards

3/9/99--Canadian ESA Day of Action

2/11/99--Forestry Giant MacMillan Bloedel Stems Flow of Red Ink in Q4

2/4/99--British Columbia's Raw Log Exports Up

1/29/99--Canada Must Sell Forest Industry Better

1/25/99--Canada's Pulp and Paper Sector Expects Tough Year

12/29/98--Forests Minister Promises Aid to Troubled Forest Companies

12/15/98--Canada's Environmental Protection Laws Have Been Gutted

12/11/98--US Groups Sue over Canadian Logging Practices

12/4/98--Ontario, Canada's Boreal Forests-Fading Fast

12/1/98--Axe Attack on Conservationists by Member of a Logging Team

12/1/98--Protect Wilderness in Ontario from Forestry and Mining Interests

11/30/98--Dutch Court Order Greenpeace off Timber Ship

11/30/98--Protest Halts Canadian Wood Shipment in Dutch Port

11/27/98--British Columbia Revamps Logging Fees System for Smaller Firms

11/26/98--Ship Carrying Raw Logs Blockaded in Bella

11/24/98--Lands for Life of Lands for Logging

11/24/98--Prevent Land for Life Decision that will Undermine Conservation Efforts

11/24/98--Canadian Right Wing Targets Greenpeace

11/24/98--Canada Politicians, Loggers Lash Out at Greenpeace

11/23/98--Lands for Life Moving Too Fast

11/20/98--Act Now to Turn Back Assault on Ontario's North Woods

11/16/98--Controversy Surrounds Canadian Lynx

11/12/98--Lands for Life Process Threatens Existing Network of Protected Areas

11/12/98--Ontario's Lands for Life Assault on Wildlife and Wildlands

10/30/98--FBI to Look into Timber Theft of Woods from Great Bear Rainforest

10/29/98--Five Activists Arrested Trying to Reclaim Stolen Canadian Rainforest Wood

10/23/98--Greenpeace Activists Protest Logging in Canadian Rainforest

10/22/98--Greenpeace Activists Block Ship in Tree-Logging Protest

10/20/98--Greenpeace Protesters Stop Newsprint Shipment

10/20/98--Stop Buying Ancient Forest Destruction

10/12/98--Greenpeace, MacMillian Bloedel to Market Clayoqout Timber

10/9/98--Quebec Cree Negotiate with Quebec over Forestry Development

9/29/98--Greenpeace Virtual Boat Tour Continues

9/17/98--Greenpeace Launches a Virtual Boat Tour of the Great Bear Rainforest

9/16/98--British Columbia Has Higher Sawmill Costs than U.S.

9/4/98--Canadian Rocky Mountain Park Fire Doubles in Size

9/1/98--Banner Hung over Niagara Falls to Protest Forest Destruction

8/23/98--Scientists Call on Canadian Government to Protect Endangered Rainforest

8/18/98--Canada Forest Industry's United Front Splintering

8/17/98--British Columbia Giant Poised to End Clear-Cutting

8/2/98--Ecology and Marketing Merge as Canadian Firm Opts to End Clearcutting

7/15/98--Ontario Forest Fires Force More to Flee

7/6/98--Canadian Court Rejects Native Bid to Halt Logging

7/4/98--Help Needed to Prevent Logging Road in Manitoba

6/30/98--Canada Lynx May Be on Threatened Species List

6/27/98--International Forest Products Clearing Sacred Land South of Prince Rupert

6/26/98--Forestry Giant MacMillan Bloedel Proposing Stumpage Overhaul

6/26/98--Canada Restricts Building and Development in National Parks

6/24/98--Tree DNA Could Aid Fight against Illegal Loggers

6/23/98--British Colombia Judge to Rule on Logging Rights

6/23/98--Alberta Forests Vanishing as Fast as Amazon Rainforests

6/23/98--Taking the Axe to Alberta, Canada's Forests

6/16/98--Canadian Rain Forest Home to Previously Undiscovered Insects

6/15/98--Loggers Bows to Band, Lubicon to Lift Boycott

6/13/98--MacMillan Bloedel Stops Thinking in Absolutes, Rethinks Clearcutting

6/11/98--Logging Giant Vows to Change Logging Practices

6/11/98--Canadian Timber Giant Renounces Clearcut Logging

6/11/98--Canadian Logger to Stop Clearcutting in Temperate Rainforest

6/10/98--Canadian Forestry Giant Pledges to Phase Out Clear-Cutting

6/10/98--MacMillan Bloedel to Phase out Clearcutting

6/10/98--Greenpeace Celebrates Landmark Victory In Forest Fight

6/6/98--Native Ownership Claims Head for Supreme Court of Canada

6/5/98--British Columbian Forests Threatened by Stumpage Reduction

6/3/98--Canada Log Thefts Tally Seen C$500 Million Yearly

6/3/98--Aboriginals Vow to Stop Company Logging

6/1/98--Americans and Canadians are Working Together to Save Ontario Wilderness

5/28/98--British Columbia Cuts Forest Stumpage Rates

5/28/98--Kennedy Supports Native Loggers in New Brunswick

5/23/98--New Brunswick Native Loggers Vow Defiance

5/22/98--New Brunswick Government begins Crackdown on Native Loggers

5/22/98--New Brunswick Rangers Seize Natives Logs and Trucks

5/20/98--Interfor Logging Causes Landslide at Johnston Creek

5/20/98--Greenpeace Challenges British Columbia Government and Forest Industry

5/18/98--Website Launched to Bear Witness to Logging of Johnston Creek

5/13/98--Queen Cuts Ribbon while Canada Clearcuts Rainforest

5/5/98--Forest Fires Rage across Western Canada

4/30/98--Canadian Company under Pressure from Logging Protest

4/28/98--Canada's Federal Government Slackens Efforts To Protect Wilderness

4/25/98--Interfor Ready to Join MacBlo Clearcut Ban

4/24/98--Friends of Lubicon Boycotting Daishowa Again

4/24/98--MacMillan Bloedel announces They May Stop Clearcutting Oldgrowth Forests

4/24/98--Friends of Lubicon Boycotting Dasihowa again

4/16/98--British Colombia Government Guts Forest Practices Code

4/15/98--World Wildlife Fund Seeks End to Spring Bear Hunt

4/15/98--Protect Ontario from Lands for Life Process

4/14/98--Mitsubishi Pulp Mill in Canada Gets Taxpayer Bailout

4/14/98--Consumer Boycotts Ruled Legal in Ontario Court

4/4/98--Greenpeace Protests over Great Bear Rainforest Logging

4/4/98--British Columbia Judge Sentences Belgians, German for Forest Protest

4/3/98--Four Greenpeace Activists Sent to Prison for Criminal Contempt

4/2/98--British Colombia Rollback on Forest Practices a Step Backward

4/2/98--Renowned Scientists Call for Moratorium on Logging of Rainforest Valleys

4/1/98--Logging the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Border is a Cut Too Far

3/31/98--Environmentalists Warn Code Changes put Wildlife at Risk

3/31/98--Landslide in Slocan Valley Caused by Ministry of Environment

3/27/98--Canada's Great Bear Rainforest Being Logged

3/26/98--Midways Woodchip Mill Protest and Otways Update

3/23/98--Greenpeace Denounces Logging of Intact Rainforest Valley

3/22/98--What Deals are British Colombia Indian Leaders Prepared to Make?

3/12/98--Documents Confirm Clark Government is Gutting the Forest Practice Code

3/12/98--Innu Hope Supreme Court Ruling could Stop Megaproject

3/5/98--Greenpeace and Loggers Fight over Great Bear Canadian Rainforest

3/3/98--Greenpeace Challenges Government to Cancel British Colombia Contract

2/20/98--Threats to Old Growth Continue on the Coast of British Columbia

2/19/98--Ontario Government Puts Forests at Risk by Delaying Forest Law Compliance

2/17/98--British Columbia's Prime Farmland may be Planted with Pulp Trees

2/6/98--Desperate British Colombia Boosts Overseas Log Shipments

2/4/98--MacMillan Bloedel Fined $100,000 for Huge Chemical Spill near Powell River

1/31/98--Help Stop the Logging on the Deh Cho Land in the Northwest Territory

1/29/98--Last Remaining Wildlife Corridor along Manitoba Border Threatened

1/17/98--Protest in Montreal to Stop Daishowa Paper Mill!

1/14/98--Trees Are Among Casualties of Ice Storm in Quebec

1/8/98--Indigenous Tribes in Canada Receive Formal Apology

1/6/98--Groups Protest British Columbia Rainforest Wood Shipment

1/6/98--British Colombia Logging Protested in Brooklyn

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