Logging and legality: environmental crime, civil society, and the state.
THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS HOW CRIMINOLOGISTS CAN BEST ANALYZE THE CRIME AND harm involved in the destruction of forests around the world. Although "illegal logging" as conventionally defined is undoubtedly a major form of transnational organized crime, the boundary between "legal" and "illegal" logging is ambiguous and conceptually unsatisfactory. We...

Lawyers, trees and money: British Columbia forest policy and the convergence of international and domestic trade considerations.
Softwood lumber in Canada is a sectoral issue driven by both international and domestic dynamics. Domestically, the government of British Columbia maintains significant control of timber policy as a result of provincial land ownership, executive dominance, and the historic role of the Ministry of Forests. In addition, there is...

A timber baron exposed.
Indonesia -- Timber baron Mohammad "Bob" Hasan is a rising environmental star. In Indonesia, one of his companies recently won a clean-operations award from the government, and abroad, he's been getting plenty of good press. But Hasan is anything but deserving of environmental praise. Best known as Indonesia's...

Western Forest Products Announces Q3 2006 Results.
Increase in EBITDA Reported TSX: WEF DUNCAN, BC, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX: WEF) today announced its results for the third quarter of 2006. The Company achieved EBITDA of $10.2 million in the quarter compared to $7.7 million in the second...

Flights of the phoenix: explaining the durability of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute.
Benjamin Cashore, an expert on forest resource policy in Canada and the United States, is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the forest economics and policy analysis research unit at the University of British Columbia. He holds advanced degrees in political science from Carleton University (1986, 1988) and the University...

The forest primeval.
In the Pitched Battle Between Loggers and Environmentalists, a Timber Tinderbox Waits for a Match Scene I: There is a 40-acre stand of ancient trees near Chester, California in the heart of the dryland timber forest. The stand is dominated by towering 500-year-old, 200-foot Ponderosa pines. These trees, which...

Demanding good wood: some current approaches to forest certification are dubious merit, and even the best have significant limitations.
Environmental activists have found that nothing catches an industry's attention as successfully as a threat to sales. When unsustainable forestry practices in the world's tropical regions attracted attention in the 1980s, activists in some industrialized nations initiated campaigns to persuade consumers to boycott tropical timbers. More recently, similar campaigns have...

Cato Institute: No New Restrictions After Softwood Lumber Agreement Expires This Weekend; Current Import Limits Are Tax on U.S. Consumers, Home Buyers.
-- Report cites quota as a tax on lumber used in new U.S. homes, remodeling -- SLA harms both consumers and U.S. workers; 300,000 homebuyers denied mortgages due to the added cost on lumber used in homes -- Industry should use...

L'ecoumene forestier canadien: Etat, techniques et communautes--l'appropriation difficile du territoire.
Abstracts R. BLAIS et G. CHIASSON : "Canada's Forest Ecumene : State, Approaches and Communuties--The Diffuclt Appropriation of Territory." [<< L'ecoumene forestier canadien : Etat, techniques et communautes : L'appropriation difficile du territoire. >>] This paper reflects on regional development through an historical analysis of forestry policy...

Should the log and wood products trade be regulated in the (U.S.) northeastern borderlands?
I. INTRODUCTION With its periodic trade disputes over potatoes, fishery products, logs and lumber, and woods labor, the northeastern borderlands would seem to have more than its share of trade irritants with Canada. Yet none of these industries rank high on the agenda of national trade policy...