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Arkansas Timber Glut Worries State’s Loggers
Mike Pennington eased his pickup to the edge of a muddy road to let a log truck pass. Thick stands of pine trees crowded the road on both sides. "There's more trees standing now than ever before," said Pennington, an Arkansas timber industry veteran and owner of LD...
Earl St. John, 79, Dies Of Health Complications
Michigan logging businessman Earl St. John, Jr., whose impact on the U.S. logging industry was legendary and whose efforts to improve the public image of logging were considerable, died of declining health complications on September 13. He was 79….
Carter Lumber To Open New North Carolina Manufacturing Facility
Carter Lumber is building a new manufacturing facility in Lexington. The Ohio-based company, which has a lumber yard in Welcome, is opening the facility on Old Hargrave Road to expand its presence in the Southeast. Mark Ely, director of marketing for Carter Lumber,...
Timber Business Booming In Parts Of Florida
The timber business is booming in northeast Florida with demand booming for the natural resource worldwide. The towering grove of century-old longleaf pines surrounding Roger Ward’s family home is a rare site in this verdant swath of north-central Florida — most pines...
Florida Releases Results Of Statewide Forestry Inventory
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced today the results of a forestry inventory of Florida's nearly 17 million acres of forestland. The study, led by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Florida Forest Service, evaluated...
Texas A&M Forest Service: Over 200 Wildfires Burning In State
Record amounts of spring rains may have ended the five-year Texas drought, but it has also provided bountiful fuel for more than 200 wildfires that cropped up around the state last week. Officials with the Texas A&M Forest Service and rangeland resource experts...
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