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The Conservation Fund Chosen To Manage NCSU’s Hofmann Forest
The Endowment Fund of N.C. State University has chosen a national nonprofit organization to handle land-use negotiations for the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest. The Conservation Fund, based in Virginia, has a dual mission of environmental protection and economic...
Texas A&M Forest Service Responds To Flooding
During the Memorial Day weekend, as part of a month-long string of weather incidents, deadly storms struck parts of Texas and Oklahoma dumping record rainfall and causing torrential flooding. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, bridges and roads were washed...
Louisiana Black Bear On Path To Leave Threatened List
The Louisiana black bear, the inspiration for the iconic stuffed animal named after President Theodore Roosevelt, got some good news Wednesday when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it is no longer in danger of extinction during the next 100 years. State and...
Auburn, Tuskegee Universities Receive Grant For Joint Research Project
Auburn and Tuskegee Universities are partnering to research heir property with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Institute. “This is a major national grant with a true partnership between colleagues at Tuskegee...
Florida Wildfires Burn More Than 15,000 Acres At Big Cypress
A fire in several areas of the Big Cypress National Preserve east of Naples that started nine days ago has multiplied due to lightning strikes and burned more than 15,000 acres, threatening private and public buildings, roads and sensitive wildlife areas. The fires...
South Florida Lumber Companies Looking Solid
Take all the wood to build the frames of all the homes permitted in the past 12 months in Lee, Charlotte, Collier and Palm Beach counties — the places where Florida Weekly is distributed. Take all those two-by-four pieces of lumber, and they would stretch 26,000...
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