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Arkansas Forests Are Growing Faster Than They Are Removed

According to the 2017 Forest Inventory and Analysis report, Arkansas’s forests continue to thrive with forested acreage remaining steady at 19 million acres, 56 percent of the state’s total land area. Data for the report is collected through the Forest...

Arkansas Industrial Wood Pellet Mill Raises Green Stakes

More than 150 wood pellet manufacturing mills operate across the U.S., many supplying the domestic woodstove pellet market with home heating fuel. More than a quarter are industrial pellet mills, grinding thousands of acres of forest into biomass for overseas export...

Bioenergy Could Save Southern Forest Markets

A new report raises new issues and questions about the future of forestland and the forest products industry in the south, but wood bioenergy could elicit significant changes in forest conditions, management and wood markets. Harvesting wood for bioenergy is projected...