Nov 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A trio of North Carolina conservation groups are appealing a local district ranger’s decision to log the Courthouse Creek drainage of the Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County. On behalf of WildSouth, the Wilderness Society and the Western North Carolina...
Nov 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
Firefighters are still battling a wildfire that has burned more than 300 acres of the Talladega National Forest in Calhoun County. So far, 319 acres of forest have burned near the Rabbittown community. Officials estimate a total of 566 acres will burn before the fire...
Nov 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
A Wake County Superior Court Judge declined Tuesday to temporarily block N.C. State University’s sale of the massive Hofmann Forest in the southeastern part of the state near Jacksonville. The decision is a setback to opponents of the $150 million deal, who fear that...
Nov 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
The St. Joe Company announced an agreement Thursday to sell more than two-thirds of its Northwest Florida landholdings. The agreement outlines the sale of 382,834 acres of rural timberland to Utah-based company AgReserves Inc. for $565 million, leaving St. Joe with...
Nov 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
A $150 million deal to sell N.C. State’s Hofmann Forest to an Illinois farming empire is nearly complete—but an injunction hearing to block the sale is still scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 12. The forest owners, N.C. State University’s Board of Trustees of...
Nov 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Rayonier Inc. has finished a massive expansion to its mill in Jesup, Ga. The $385 million cellulose specialties expansion added 190,000 metric tons of additional production capacity to the mill. Rayonier’s cellulose specialties fibers are used in everyday products...
