May 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
Forest Resources Association Chairman Dick Carmical recently announced that FRA had hired Deb Hawkinson to replace FRA President Richard Lewis, effective as of Lewis’s scheduled retirement on July 2, 2012. “The FRA Officer Search Team was very impressed with Deb...
May 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
There have been very few scientific studies on the outdoor activities of children and youth. The few that have been published are relatively small, surveying less than 500 individuals. In 2007, to address an important gap in information about kids and the outdoors,...
May 4, 2012 | News, News/PR
Even in the best of times, farming in Louisiana has always been a risky business; a gamble on rainfall, storm events, and fluctuations in the price of crops, chemicals, equipment and fuel. Rather than pinning their hopes on the success of farming in a market that is...
May 2, 2012 | News, News/PR
The University of Georgia Center for Forest Business recently received a data collection program from forest industry consulting firm Forisk Consulting. The firm donated its Wood Demand Research Program, which tracks and analyzes the consumption of raw materials by...
Apr 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
In response to increasing demand for more accurate and up-to-date wildfire risk information across the state, Texas Forest Service established the Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment Project (TWRA). The goal of the project is to provide a consistent, comparable set of...
Apr 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
A first-of-its-kind regional assessment for woody biomass in Southeastern North Carolina is moving into its third and final phase. Conducted in partnership with the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, the study has focused attention on promising woody biomass...
