Aug 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
An Aug. 13 trial date was set in U.S. District Court in Jackson in a breach-of-contract lawsuit by Pike County against a wood pellet company that never built a promised mill. The Enterprise-Journal reports Indeck Energy Services of Buffalo Grove, Ill., bought land...
Aug 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Mississippi Forestry Commission says the first Southern pine beetle outbreak to hit southwest Mississippi in nearly 20 years has apparently doubled in size and shows no signs of slowing. The Enterprise-Journal reports that officials are urging landowners in...
Aug 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
A 20-person crew left West Virginia recently heading for Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, an area where wildfires have been causing problems for firefighters in the area, said Leslie Fitzwater, Division of Forestry spokeswoman. “Typically when the...
Aug 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
With the recent opening of International Paper’s new fluff fiber mill in Isle of Wight County and deals inked for one of two proposed wood-pellet manufacturers, loggers and timber growers are seeing green. Locally, the price of pine wood pulp — the primary...
Aug 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry wants the public to be aware of the increasing potential for extreme wildland fires to occur across much of the state. “Conditions are deteriorating,” said Oklahoma...
Aug 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
Most people would be fortunate enough to have a tree planted and named in their honor. Billy Apperson recently had a whole forest of rare trees named after him. Apperson, a York County resident and long-time James City Bruton Volunteer Firefighter, recently retired...
