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Ground-Breaking Program Launched To Aid Southern Timber Harvesters And Haulers
One of the best-known names in tree-growing and forest stewardship is the first forest products company in America to participate in a new program that will boost the economic vitality and sustainability of the nation’s 10,000 independent timber harvesters and...
Exhibitors Pouring In For 2014 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show
Exhibitor interest in the 2014 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show has been good since space was made available earlier this year, with new space bookings coming in regularly, according to Misty Booth, Show Manager. The biennial event, which is celebrating its 30-year...
Southeastern Wood Producers Association Event To Include Logging & Outdoor Expo
The annual meeting of the Southeastern Wood Producers Association (SWPA) will be radically different this year in that it will occur in conjunction with a logging and outdoor (recreational) exposition, with a focus on transportation. It will be staged at the Jekyll...
Virginia Wildfires Burn Nearly 9,500 Acres During Spring Fire Season
Widespread heavy rain last week was a fitting and welcome end to a relatively busy spring fire season in Virginia. Firefighters from the Virginia Department of Forestry responded to 597 wildfires and protected more than 950 homes and other structures during the spring...
Whiskey, Bourbon Boost Kentucky Forest Products Industry
There's the clatter of machinery, the buzzing of saws and pounding of hammers — all inside a 1920s brick and wood factory, where Brown-Forman Cooperage workers make 2,700 whiskey barrels each day from white oak. With Brown-Forman investing $135 million to expand its...
Multiple Efforts Underway To Save North Carolina Eastern Hemlock Trees
The once-abundant Eastern Hemlock provided shade and respite from the summer heat and played a key role in riverbank ecology. Now they resemble towering grey skeletons, and, gradually, their broken limbs and trunks are filling the creeks and rivers. The questions for...
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