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Enviva Gives $5 Million To North Carolina, Virginia Forest Conservation
The world's largest wood pellet fuel manufacturer Enviva Holdings, established $5 million, 10-year program that it says is designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of bottomland forests in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia. It will also help shield...
Funding Available To Texas Landowners For Longleaf Pine Conservation
Private landowners in Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Polk and Tyler counties may now apply for funding to help sustain, enhance and restore longleaf pine on their property. Funding is available through the Forestland Stewards Initiative to assist with costs associated with...
Six Reasons Thinning Trees Is Good For The Forest
Over the last few months, we have written extensively about the extreme wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and some of the lingering effects that the devastation will have in the near-term. The fires have been in the mainstream news for months, but a...
Southern Research Station: U.S. Forest Products In The Global Economy
Although the United States leads the world in both production and consumption of forest products, the U.S. share of the global forest products market has declined precipitously since the 1990s. The declines are a result of decreases in U.S. construction and paper...
Arkansas Governor Signs Letter Of Intent For $1.3 Billion Chinese Pulp Mill
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has signed a “letter of intent on investment cooperation” with Chinese-based Shandong Sun Paper Industry Joint Stock Co. to pursue a $1.3 billion pulp mill to be located in south Arkansas. In attendance at the signing ceremony were...
Concerns Grow Over Shrinking Cypress Swamps In Louisiana
Minutes from the New Orleans Central Business District, an airboat whisks us into another world, a seemingly untouched place populated by alligators, bald eagles and cypress trees. But Russell Easley grew up here, and he's seen dramatic changes in the southeast...
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