September wheat futures in early trading were mixed, from a 1/4 of a cent higher in Minneapolis, to 5-1/2 cents lower in Kansas City and 11-3/4 cents per bushel lower in Chicago compared to Mondayís closes.

The Bureau of Land Management wants to salvage 40 million board feet of timber blown down in a Jan. 4 windstorm. Environmentalists, who have opposed many salvage sales, are at least partly aboard.

Jerome County Commissioners in south-central Idaho have approved a massive animal feedlot a mile west of a national historic site where Japanese-Americans were confined during World War II.

Gold prices dropped Tuesday for the eighth straight session, as speculative funds kept liquidating their holdings due to the stronger dollar.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ The Bush administration has decided that the northern spotted owl can get by with less old growth forest habitat as it struggles to get off the threatened species list.

POCATELLO, Idaho - Stripe rust remains a real concern for southeast Idaho grain growers.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak.

A new U.S. Forest Service rule governing the way it develops long-range plans for 192 million acres of national forests has its challenge in court.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Dorothy English, who was the public face of the Oregon property rights battle, has died.