41.   Wildcrafting is especially attractive to forest communities because in the long-smoldering conflict between conservationists and lumber companies, it is part of an evolving middle way.

42.   Prosecutors suspect Suzuki accepted the money from Yamarin, a lumber company that faced a government fine for illegal logging in national forests.

43.   A powerful Japanese lawmaker was arrested Wednesday for allegedly taking bribes from a lumber company in a scandal that has deeply embarrassed the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

44.   Fifty years after the end of the war, a Japanese lumber company Juken Nissho wants to build two memorials at the site to honor the dead.

45.   Government officials have blamed plantation and lumber companies for starting the blazes as a cheap and quick way to clear land.

46.   He quit his job with a lumber company to spend more time at home.

47.   Lumber companies owned by Germans, Britons, Japanese and Americans are punching great networks of roads into forests, she said.

48.   Lumber companies wanting to clear forests already heavily logged do the same.

49.   A huge, privately owned grove of ancient redwood trees in California will be spared under a deal struck Saturday between a lumber company and the US government.