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Weyco Buys Land In NC, Virginia From Roseburg
Weyerhaeuser Co. is acquiring 117,000 acres in North Carolina and Virginia from Roanoke Timberlands LLC, a subsidiary of Roseburg Forest Products, for $375 million. Composed of mature, highly productive timberlands, the acreage will be...
Richard Barge Thrived With Timberlands
Charles Richard Barge, better known as Richard, a longtime leader and innovator in timberlands management and who helped to build a modern sawmill in the late 1980s, and who was highly honored by the Mississippi forestry industry, died April 22 in...
Mississippi Loggers Assn. Leads U.S. In Log-A-Load Funds
Mississippi’s forests are a source of growing support for the state’s only children’s hospital. In 2024, the Mississippi Loggers Assn. (MLA) raised a record $320,050 for Children’s of Mississippi through the Log-A-Load for Kids campaign, leading...
No Weight Increase For Alabama Trucks
A bill that was originally written to allow log trucks to carry more weight per axle on Alabama highways, as sought by the state’s forest products sector, underwent substantial changes in the Alabama Senate in April. It will no longer increase...
Tracy Gunter Left Legacy Of Leadership
Tracy C. Gunter, Jr., long respected for his leadership in the logging industry, and owner of Tracy’s Logging, Leesville, SC, died March 23. He was 84. In October 1997, in the 25th anniversary issue of Southern Loggin’ Times, Gunter was named as...
Enviva Closing Amory Mill in Mississippi
Emerging from bankruptcy in late 2024, Enviva announced in early February that it was closing its Amory pellet plant in northeast Mississippi. The Amory facility was the company’s first plant operated in the U.S. and was acquired in 2010. According...
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