1.  Environmental protests over logging practices have become more frequent in the past decade.

2.  Logging practices cannot harm other plants or forest creatures, add to erosion, or allow herbicides to pollute rivers, soil or the food chain.

3.  Logging practices that take the strong, towering trees and leave diseased ones behind have for years contributed to tree death, stripping large areas of healthy forests.

4.  On the coast, green groups want companies to adopt less destructive logging practices, methods that usually cost more money.

5.  Rapacious logging practices created a backlash that has reduced the timber cut on federal lands to a quarter of what it was.

6.  The government said last week that it would use the areas to demonstrate logging practices that could sustain surrounding communities and the environment.

7.  The meeting coincided with the release by the state Board of Forestry of draft regulations governing logging practices on private lands.

8.  Keating did not rule out cuts in Australian aid to countries that did not do more to improve logging practices.

9.  While many top riders race in Europe through the spring and early summer, Armstrong logs practice miles over French roads where the Tour will be held.