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Texas A&M Students Help Bastrop State Park Recover The Forest
Approximately 10,000 trees will take root in Texas soil over the next two weekends in February, helping restore the wildfire-scarred landscape of Bastrop County. Aggie Replant - a Texas A&M student organization – will converge approximately 800-strong on Bastrop...
Texas A&M Forestry Program Gets New Society Of American Foresters Accreditation
Texas A&M University’s Ecosystem Science and Management department’s forestry program (formerly known as the Forest Science and Rangeland Ecology and Management) is refocusing in an effort to make it a model among other schools, according to forest management and...
Georgia Timber Theft Targeted At Capitol
Georgia timber might seem like a well-rooted asset, but thieves actually are making off with enough truckloads of trees that the state Legislature is considering tripling penalties and empowering state foresters to arrest crooks. “We’re trying to make a disincentive...
New Technologies Could Mean Profit For Louisiana Forest Landowners
New words like wood pellets and biomass are providing a ray of hope for Louisiana forest landowners who have seen nothing but low prices since the downturn in the economy. Producers who attended the LSU AgCenter Forestry Forum in West Monroe on January 17th heard from...
Outdoor Enthusiasts, Military At Odds Over Possible Training In Florida State Forest
Tate’s Hell State Forest, best known for its swamp, seclusion and signature species, may become the site of weekly helicopter drops of up to 50 men, careening Humvees with blacked-out headlights and foraging soldiers made to subsist off the land for seven days. Those...
Georgia Power Rethinks Coal-To-Biomass Conversion
In 2014, Georgia Power will file a request with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to decertify Plant Mitchell Unit 3 in Albany, Georgia. Further, the company will cancel the previously proposed conversion of the coal-fired unit to biomass after an extensive...
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