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USDA To Spend $30 Million On Forest Restoration
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Thursday it will spend $30 million this year on forest restoration projects in 12 states to reduce the threat of wildfires, protect water quality and improve wildlife habitat for at-risk species. Those first 13 projects...
North Carolina’s Headwaters State Forest Closer To Completion
Thanks to a $3 million federal grant, the N.C. Forest Service and its conservation partners have now protected more than 40 percent of a fledgling 8,000-acre Headwaters State Forest in southern Transylvania County. On Tuesday, state forestry officials announced they...
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...
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