Feb 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its history, the national Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program is providing training in the eastern United States, and it is doing so at the Auburn University Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center in Andalusia. The training course, also...
Aug 1, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Southern Group of State Foresters’ (SGSF) Communications Committee held its annual summer meeting in Charleston, S.C., July 25-28 to review and update its strategic plan for the coming year and begin work on several new regional outreach projects promoting...
Oct 7, 2015 | News, News/PR
Kentucky’s forestry industries want better education and, ultimately, better enforcement of state timber laws and regulations to cut down timber theft. That was the word today before a meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment where...
Feb 13, 2015 | News, News/PR
Arkansas’ only school of forestry is getting a new name to go with a broadened, updated academic direction. The School of Forest Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello has been renamed the School of Forestry and Natural Resources, according to an...
Sep 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
Education majors at Louisiana State University (LSU) at Alexandria learned to incorporate the state’s landscape into their classrooms thanks to Project Learning Tree. State forester Wade Dubea hosted an all-day workshop Tuesday about the national program that...
