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USFS Spends $40.6 Million For Lands In 15 States
The U.S. Forest Service is investing $40.6 million to acquire 27 pieces of land in 15 states that the agency says will help safeguard clean water, provide recreational access, preserve wildlife habitat, enhance scenic vistas and protect historic and wilderness areas....
Longleaf Pine Project To Have $300M Impact On Southeast
A long-term, federal initiative aimed at more than doubling the size of longleaf pine forests in the Southeast could have an estimated $300 million economic impact in the Pine Belt. In February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that 20 restoration projects...
Wildfires Burning 7,000 Acres In Virginia
Five large wildfires and many more small ones are burning more than 7,000 acres across the Commonwealth today. While the bulk of the large fires are on U.S. Forest Service land, the Virginia Department of Forestry, USFS, National Park Service along with numerous...
Trees Bent By American Indians Being Identified and Preserved
“If they could talk, the stories they could tell,” Steve Houser, an arborist and founding member of the Dallas Historic Tree Coalition, told the Associated Press. The trees, he said, “were like an early road map” for American Indians. The trees are known as Indian...
Dogs Sniffing Out Arsonists In Alabama
Blaze, a 4-year-old bloodhound, has some serious skills that have impressed his partner and colleagues with the Alabama Forestry Commission's arson investigation team. There have been times when Blaze has led investigators right to the front door of a suspected...
Auburn Researchers Use Dogs To Find Pythons
Jake loves to work. The black Labrador loves to work so much that he doesn't even care for the reward he receives when he does his job successfully. "That's pretty unusual," said Dr. Todd Steury, assistant professor of Wildlife Ecology in the School of Forestry and...
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