21.  A logging company had tentatively planned to begin harvesting trees in the Mount Hood National Forest on Friday, and activists had vowed to try to stop them.

22.  A logging company had tentatively planned to begin harvesting trees in the Mount Hood National Forest today, and activists had vowed to try to stop them.

23.  Amazon basin tribal leaders started a three-day summit Tuesday to discuss proposals to sell off their backyards to multinational logging companies.

24.  Among other sensitive issues debated during the two-week session were the rights of indigenous peoples and forest dwellers versus those of countries countries and logging company concessions.

25.  Communist rebels seized and burned five vehicles belonging to a logging company in the northeastern area of Mindanao Island, the military said Tuesday.

26.  Communist rebels said they have burned equipment belonging to four logging companies as part of a campaign to stop logging in the southern Philippines.

27.  Environment Secretary Victor O. Ramos has ordered the cancellation of the permits of three logging companies in Luzon due their failure to conduct reforestation activities.

28.  Four government militiamen assigned to protect a logging company were killed along with a civilian in an ambush in the southern Philippines, army officials said Thursday.

29.  Government officials and environmentalists say deforestation by timber-cutting logging companies and villagers needing firewood has contributed to the disasters.

30.  He urged strong action against big logging companies that he says are often responsible for the fires.