• The Government of Canada is planning to redirect the savings from recent cuts to arts. The $40- million saved will go to support the Vancouver Olympics and bilingualism. (The Globe and Mail)
• The story of the fuctional extinction of the American Chestnut is told in American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel, University of California Press, 2007. The book is reviewed by the American Scientist.