Jul 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) will hold its 35th annual meeting September 10-12, 2012 in New Bern, North Carolina at the Doubletree Riverfront Hotel. The theme of the meeting is “Engineering New Solutions for Energy Supply and Demand”. The local host of the...
Jul 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
Money really does grow on trees, especially if those trees are on your property. You could be sitting on top of a gold mine if you have a few spare acres lying around. Timber and trees have made some in South Carolina millionaires. It’s a 17 billion dollar...
Jul 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
Southern Company recently announced that the nation’s largest biomass plant is putting electricity on the grid in Texas. Southern Company President, Chairman and CEO Thomas A. Fanning joined state and local dignitaries at the company’s Nacogdoches...
Jul 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
West Virginia University is bringing forestry education to a state women’s prison. On Aug. 7, faculty from WVU’s Division of Forestry and Natural Resources will travel to the Lakin Correctional Center in West Columbia to kick off a program to teach inmates...
Jul 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Although drought is often the cause, trees can die for other reasons besides lack of soil moisture, said Dr. Eric Taylor, Texas AgriLife Extension Service forestry specialist, Overton. “Drought is the primary contributor to tree kill, but it may not be exactly the way...
Jul 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
An invasive wood-boring beetle has spread to more than a dozen counties in Virginia, threatening millions of ash trees, state forestry officials said last week. The emerald ash borer, a native of Asia first detected in the U.S. 10 years ago, has now spread to the...
