ALOR STAR: The Malaysian Nature Society has described the state government's plan to log timber in the Ulu Muda forest reserve as "a cruel act against nature".

By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.

Former Governor Pete Wilson, a principal of Bingham Consulting Group, was selected as the Plan Agent for the reorganization of Scotia Pacific Company proposed by the Indenture Trustee for the public noteholders, Bingham Consulting Group announced today.

By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Jan. 16--A coalition of environmentalists, the Bank of America and others will propose setting aside old-growth trees and allowing sustainable logging on the rest of the world's largest privately owned redwood forest in Humboldt County.

By Susan Palmer, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Oct. 28--They're not much, as Douglas firs go. This little patch on U.S. Bureau of Land Management forest in the Coast Range west of Lorane is young -- 10-year-old trees in a section that was logged from 1996 to 1998 and then replanted.