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Unwanted Seeds Could Save Badly Burned Lost Pines In Texas
The unlikely heroes in healing the great pine forest of Central Texas are seeds that no one wanted. The Texas A&M Forest Service was making plans to dump more than a half-ton of loblolly pine seeds into a landfill when the most destructive wildfire in state...
Virginia’s Mighty Chestnut May Yet Return To Glory
One hundred years ago the Blue Ridge Mountains were covered in American chestnut trees, which made up roughly a quarter of the canopy. The chestnut blight, an imported fungal infection first noticed in New York in 1904, had by the '50s spread throughout Appalachia and...
LP Announces Planned Restart Of Alabama Mill
What's old is now new again. The Louisiana Pacific Mill just south of Thomasville shut down three years ago due to the economy, putting hundreds out of work. Now the hiring begins as the plant gears up for reopening. "This particular project you don't have to wait for...
Rain Finally Helps Foresters Battle Wildfires In East Tennessee
Much-needed showers Monday left state foresters cautiously optimistic in their battle against a rash of wildfires that have ignited across East Tennessee over the past two weeks. Scattered showers in Anderson and Campbell counties added firefighters' ongoing efforts...
Firefighters Battling 2,000 Acre Wildfire In Tennessee County
State firefighters are continuing to battle a wildfire today in Hawkins County that has consumed about 2,000 acres on Short Mountain near Rogersville. The blaze is one of six different fire calls answered Monday in Hawkins, Scott, Grainger, Hancock, Campbell and Knox...
Employment Stabilizes For Arkansas’s Timber Plants
Executives like Steve Anthony may not be particularly optimistic about the return of the building boom but Arkansas Business’ annual survey of forest products companies indicates that employment has been stable or a bit improved over the past year. Georgia-Pacific LLC...
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