Aug 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Some Texas landowners may be eligible for funding to help with prescribed burning costs on private lands. Now through Sept. 28, 2018, Texas A&M Forest Service is accepting grant applications to cover prescribed fire costs for private landowners that use...
Jun 25, 2018 | News, News/PR
Clemson University is holding students’ feet to the fire – literally – as it prepares them to take leadership roles in one of the most dangerous and underserved aspects in the forestry industry. Fire Tigers is a 15-member group of Clemson forestry and wildlife...
Mar 31, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Alabama Forestry Commission is working with Wiregrass timber owners to try to save the timber industry from the outbreak of Ips Bark Beetles. “Ips Bark Beetles are hitting our pines very hard,” said Alabama Forestry Commission Forestry Specialist Brady Dunn. “The...
Apr 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
In the U.S., most of the focus is on the catastrophic fires that regularly sweep across the western states, but wildfires actually occur more frequently in the Southeast, where rapid vegetation growth and fuel accumulation combine with frequent ignitions from...
Jan 27, 2016 | News, News/PR
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced today that the Florida Forest Service has received the Wildfire Mitigation Fire Service Leadership award for its record-breaking prescribed fire program. This award comes just as Florida recognizes...
