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Southern U.S. Forest Service Study: Electronic Noses and Forests?
What if a machine could detect insects and diseases in living trees or help prevent log theft and illegal logging by tracking individual logs from the forest to the lumberyard? What about a machine that researchers could use to identify and understand the ecological...
Ancient Underwater Forest Off Alabama Coast Is Much Older Than Scientists Thought
The ancient forest found 60 feet underwater about 10 miles offshore of Alabama is much older than originally thought. I collected samples of the trees during an AL.com scuba diving expedition to the forest. Those samples were sent to the Lawrence Livermore National...
U.S. Forest Service Alabama Unit Hosts SALHI Workshop
On Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Operations Research unit in Auburn, Alabama, hosted attendees of the 2013 Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute (SALHI) for an introduction to harvesting and forest operations...
Company To Double Production Of Mississippi Wood Pellet Plant
Gulf Coast Renewable Energy, which plans to bring a multimillion-dollar wood pellet manufacturing facility to George County's industrial park in Lucedale, Mississippi, announced today that it has decided to double the plant’s capacity. It will now produce about...
Mississippi Endorses Inclusive Approach to Forest Certification
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed legislation Wednesday specifying that rating systems used in green building projects funded by the state government "shall not exclude certificate credits for forest products certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative,...
Fly Timber Expanding Operations In Mississippi
Officials from Fly Timber have announced the company is expanding its operations in Grenada, Mississippi, in Grenada County. The project represents a company investment of more than $6 million and will create 30 new jobs, bringing the total number of workers employed...
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