Nov 19, 2014 | News, News/PR
Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia’s governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast. The U.S. Forest Service...
Nov 17, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Alabama Forestry Commission is harvesting loblolly pine stands that surround Frog Pond in White Plains, leaving the entrance to the seasonal habitat marred and impassable. That is problematic for educators at Jacksonville State University, who have used the...
Nov 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has unveiled a draft management plan that would allow logging on 700,000 acres of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Officials said Wednesday the plan is aimed at preserving the woods and restoring habitat diversity. The Forest Service...
Nov 12, 2014 | News, News/PR
Arkansas’ burgeoning biomass industry got a big boost earlier this summer when in the space of 30 days two privately held investor groups announced multi-million dollar projects to produce commercially viable fuel from the state’s vast supply of forest dregs. On July...
Nov 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
New logging processes integrate technology to get the job done, revolutionizing one of the oldest professions in the world. Logging is an ancient practice. Dating back to the boom of the Fertile Crescent — parts of the modern-day Middle East — organized or systemic...
Nov 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
Faculty members Stephen Ditchkoff, Mark Smith, Todd Steury, Robert Gitzen, Graeme Lockaby, and Edward Loewenstein in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences received a $861,833 grant from the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division of the...
