Apr 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today as part of his trade and marketing mission to Asia the formal opening of a representative office in mainland China dedicated to increasing agricultural and forestry product exports to China, the world’s most populous...
Apr 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
The world’s largest wood pellet plant is coming to one of the smallest towns in Central Louisiana. German Pellets GmbH will begin work immediately on a $300 million plant in Urania that is expected to employ about 80 people directly and support more than 400 indirect...
Apr 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
A Texas A&M Forest Service Incident Management Team has deployed to Central Texas to aid in response and recovery efforts following a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The 18-member team — as well as the agency’s mobile command post and...
Apr 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
What if a machine could detect insects and diseases in living trees or help prevent log theft and illegal logging by tracking individual logs from the forest to the lumberyard? What about a machine that researchers could use to identify and understand the ecological...
Apr 10, 2013 | News, News/PR
The ancient forest found 60 feet underwater about 10 miles offshore of Alabama is much older than originally thought. I collected samples of the trees during an AL.com scuba diving expedition to the forest. Those samples were sent to the Lawrence Livermore National...
Apr 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
On Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Operations Research unit in Auburn, Alabama, hosted attendees of the 2013 Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute (SALHI) for an introduction to harvesting and forest operations...
