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Tiny Bug Sucking Life Out Of Prime Kentucky Hemlock Trees
Tens of millions of Kentucky hemlock trees are at risk from a bug just one-sixteenth of an inch in size that literally sucks the life out of the tree by feeding on the starches that are the tree’s food source. The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, which has no natural...
S.C. Agencies, Residents Reflect On Lessons Learned From Devastating Wildfire
Charred trees now tower over bright green vegetation between Carolina Forest and North Myrtle Beach along S.C. 31, where the state’s most destructive wildfire burned five years ago. The fire, which spread over 19,130 acres, damaged 97 homes and destroyed 76 homes...
Alabama Forestry Commission To Help Landowners Fight Tree-Killing Pests
The Alabama Forestry Commission hopes it can assist private landowners in stopping beetle infestations of pine trees. The commission announced this month that it is awarding $160,000 to landowners to use prescribed burns and thinning on their pine stands to stop the...
Hatton-Brown Partners With ATPA For In-Woods Expo
Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. and the Arkansas Timber Producers Assn. (ATPA) have joined forces to sponsor the next In-Woods Expo, a major demonstration/display of forestry equipment, supplies and services that ATPA launched in 2004 and held again in 2007 and 2011....
Forest Service Funding To Restore Southern Forests On Abandoned Mine Lands
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the United States Forest Service - State and Private Forestry (USFS) today announced $678,000 in grants to support forest restoration on abandoned mine lands at sites in Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee,...
Wood Damaged By Ice Storm Fuels Power Plant In South Carolina
Nearly 21,000 tons of timber and woody debris damaged by the February ice storm in South Carolina has been burned as renewable energy at the Savannah River bioenergy plant, run by Ameresco in Aiken, SC. Ameresco, Inc. used the wood at its biomass cogeneration facility...
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