It's forestry not arboriculture but fascinating article in Business section of 9/14 NY Times. Recent coup in Fiji, parliament held hostage. Reportedly now understood to be over the concession to harvest 125,000 acres of mahogany plantations. You foresters should find interesting.

Reply to post by Scott Cullen, on September 15, 2000 at 17:05:26:

Tom Kimmerer kindly provides another source... the Sydney Morning Herald.
(http://www.smh.com.au/news/0010/20/world/world3.html).

Reply to post by Scott, on September 15, 2000 at 17:05:26:

pliz could you send me the mahogany yalks that behind the build up to 2000 crisis