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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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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