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SFI & AFF Announce Innovative Project To Promote N.C. Longleaf Pine Conservation
The future of Southern U.S. forests depends in large part on decisions made today by family forest owners, who account for 62 percent of privately owned forestland in the region. To help promote responsible forestry among this crucial group, the Sustainable Forestry...
Biomass In North Carolina: An Embarrassment Of Riches?
The rich forest growth characteristic of North Carolina and other East Coast states is feeding a worldwide need for biomass energy facilities, but a study released this week asks, “At what cost?” The pellets are used primarily for power generation, although some are...
Report: South Carolina Woody Biomass Harvest May Hurt State In Long Term
South Carolina’s forests may be ripe to harvest woody biomass, a source that’s emerged as an export to European markets to power their electrical plants, but mass cutting of small trees and undergrowth may be bad in the long term for the state’s forests and its most...
Industrial Timber Invests $1.5 Million To Expand Mississippi Facilities
Industrial Timber, a manufacturer of wood furniture frames, will invest $1.5 million to expand operations at its facilities in Shannon and Ripley, Mississippi. Both expansion projects will create 80 jobs Lee and Tippah Counties. Industrial Timber is adding a new...
U.S. Forestry Industry Experiences Move To The South
The forestry industry in the United States has shifted from the Pacific Northwest to the South during the past two decades, all thanks to owls. Rich Vlosky, director of the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, said national forests in the West...
U.S. Forest Service “Kids In The Wood” Program Exposes Georgia Students To Nature
On a brisk morning in north Georgia, U.S. Forest Service employees prepared for a “Kids in the Wood”’ excursion to Scull Shoals with students from the local Union Point STEAM (STEM plus the arts) Academy and Elementary School, the first rural K-8 STEAM school in...
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