Nov 15, 2017 | News, News/PR
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...
Aug 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry and Huber Engineered Woods LLC (HEW) are teaming up to initiate the Trees for Tennessee Seedling Program. The program aims to provide an avenue for the establishment of as many as 1 million pine seedlings on...
Apr 5, 2017 | News, News/PR
First Lady of Virginia Dorothy McAuliffe helped harvest the 2 Billionth tree seedling grown by the Virginia Department of Forestry during a celebration March 29, 2017 at the Garland Gray Forestry Center in Sussex County. The First Lady and Virginia’s Secretary of...
Dec 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
For about 15 years, the state’s most destructive forest insect has been lying low in South Carolina. But damage caused by recent droughts, storms and wildfires raises the specter of a resurgence. Sizable infestations of southern pine beetles have been few and far...
Sep 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
Hurricanes and other major storms cause billions of dollars of damage to southern timber resources. If you add the increased risk of wildfire, insect infestations, and disease that accompany downed wood, you have millions of acres of forests vulnerable to further harm...