Aug 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Mother Nature has not been very nurturing to the South Carolina logging, construction and lumber industries recently, with building projects being delayed and loggers struggling to find dry, harvestable land. Neal Branan, president of Orangeburg’s Branan Lumber, said...
Aug 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
On the Ashley River, a few miles south of Charleston, S.C., the water is murky and the marsh grass high. A three-man logging crew is cruising on a 24-foot pontoon boat. It’s low tide and logs are poking out everywhere. Hewitt Emerson, owner of the...
Jul 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
America’s forest landowners and forest products industries rely heavily on a cadre of small businesses for the harvesting and transporting of trees. If those small businesses don’t thrive, forest landowners and converting mills suffer. The U.S. Endowment for Forestry...
May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Foresters with the South Carolina Forestry Commission have developed guidelines that address the emerging practice of harvesting woody biomass for energy. Biomass generates energy. Forest products manufacturers have known this for generations and have produced their...
