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U.S. Forest Service Prepares For Southern Pine Beetle In Mississippi
The U.S. Forest Service announced early signs indicating national forest lands will face a second consecutive year of a severe southern pine beetle outbreak threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in Mississippi. Forest Service scientists...
Vicksburg Forest Products To Reopen Anderson-Tully Sawmill In Mississippi
Two months after it was initially announced, the sale of Anderson-Tully became official Monday. The Vicksburg-based sawmill was purchased by Vicksburg Forest Products LLC., which is headquartered in Jackson. The parent company of Vicksburg Forest Products also owns...
UGA Forestry School Sponsoring Logging Cost Analysis Course
The University Of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources will sponsor a logging cost analysis course to be held June 12-13 at the Cunningham Research Station, 200 Cunningham Road, in Kinston, NC. The course will be presented by Dr. Joe Conrad, an...
Canfor Investing $40 Million To Upgrade South Carolina Sawmill
Canfor Southern Pine, a leading integrated forest products company, will invest $40 million to upgrade its existing sawmill in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. A leading manufacturer of high-quality Southern yellow pine lumber, Canfor Southern Pine operates 14...
New $100 Million Lumber Facility Set To Open In Texas
Angelina Forest Products, LLC announced plans to build a new softwood lumber production plant in Lufkin, Texas. The company purchased the former General Electric Buck Creek site and will begin construction of a $100 million state-of-the-art sawmill…
Alabama CLT Plant Is Nearly Operational
The first and biggest cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plant in the eastern U.S. is nearly fully operational, with 25 employees currently working a portion of the plant. Florida-based International Beams (IB), a manufacturer of pre-fabricated i-joist beams,...
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