Mar 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Florida State Forester and National Association of State Foresters (NASF) president Jim Karels recently urged a House panel to support NASF recommendations for USDA Forest Service (USFS) program funding levels. Speaking to the House Subcommittee on Interior,...
Mar 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Florida Forest Service team has been busy in Jackson County recently. On Monday, crew members were creating a fire line for private property owners, and also took time to deliver a big piece of equipment to one of the local volunteer fire departments. This one...
Mar 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Months into his Forest Service career, Danny Lee stood amid a vast, charred forest in Idaho where a wildfire had consumed a quarter of a million acres, its temperatures hot to enough melt glass bottles. “I thought I was joining the Forest Service to swim around...
Mar 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
Some of the oldest trees in North Carolina have been here for more than 400 years. The North Carolina Forest Service that tends them isn’t quite so old, but it’s getting up there — 2015 marks its centennial. “It’s a really exciting time for us,” said Tom James,...
Mar 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Over the past decade, U.S. Forest Service researchers have been working with university cooperators to find some way to slow down or stop the relentless spread of cogongrass. This last fall, Auburn University researchers reported results that demonstrate, for the...
Mar 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
Georgetown County is one step closer to creating a joint county industrial park to accommodate an expansion by Simpson Lumber Co., which currently has a mill in Georgetown. On second reading, County Council passed an ordinance to create the joint county industrial...
