Aug 6, 2018 | News, News/PR
As thousands more people in Northern California fled their homes as wildfires surge, Florida is sending more firefighters to help battle raging wildfires in California. As of Wednesday, the Florida Forest Service had sent 75 firefighters to California, as well as...
Sep 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
The timber business is booming in northeast Florida with demand booming for the natural resource worldwide. The towering grove of century-old longleaf pines surrounding Roger Ward’s family home is a rare site in this verdant swath of north-central Florida — most pines...
Sep 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced today the results of a forestry inventory of Florida’s nearly 17 million acres of forestland. The study, led by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Florida Forest...