Sep 8, 2017 | News, News/PR
Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced that more than 100 Florida Forest Service personnel, as well as aircraft, off-road vehicles and mobile command posts, are preparing to respond to Hurricane Irma and assist in search and rescue missions, debris...
Oct 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Hurricane Matthew has come and gone, but the South Carolina Forestry Commission’s statewide burning ban remains in effect. A State Forester’s Burning Ban prohibits outdoor burning, which includes yard debris burning and burning for forestry, wildlife or agricultural...
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...