May 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
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...
May 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
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...
May 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
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...
May 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
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...
May 15, 2015 | News, News/PR
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...
Apr 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
As enigmatic as it is deadly, “pine decline” has many Southern timber owners wondering whether the condition may be damaging their investment. South Carolina timber owners and land managers will be able to get the latest information on the problem at a daylong...
