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Louisiana Landowners Advised To Focus On Forest Productivity
Keeping sites productive in today’s economy is an important consideration to managing forestlands, according to LSU AgCenter forestry specialist Mike Blazier. With housing starts just starting to recover from an earlier slump, the market for…
U.S. Forest Service Conducts Big Prescribed Burn In Mississippi
While it was a mostly sunny day across the Gulf Coast Monday, that was not the case in an area of northwest Jackson County. Technicians from the U.S. Forest Service performed a prescribed burn of…
Florida Foresters Use Prescribed Burn To Preserve Habitat and More
Like a druggist mixing a pharmaceutical compound in a lab, Sam Negaran begins his day with a prescription. But instead of being tasked with making medicine, Negaran and his co-workers at the Florida Forest Service…
Arkansas Senator Proposes Tax Hike For Forestry Agency
A Hot Springs senator has proposed an increase in the tax that private timberland owners pay to help the financially troubled Arkansas Forestry Commission. Republican Sen. Bill Sample filed legislation Monday that would increase the…
Georgia Forest Industry Shows Growth
A new report says Georgia’s forest industry added jobs in 2011 for the first time in four years. The report by Georgia Tech, conducted for the Georgia Forestry Commission, showed 46,378 workers were directly employed…
Controlled Forest Burning Planned For Next Eight Months On Camp Lejeune
The Camp Lejeune Environmental Management Division has started lighting prescribed burns on forestry parts of the base and plans to do so for the next eight months. The controlled burning is a tool used by…
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