Dec 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
A new biomass power plant announced Thursday is expected to bring hundreds of related jobs and a direct $95 million investment. A statement from the office of Gov. Nathan Deal said the plant itself will bring 35 permanent jobs to Laurens County. The new biomass power...
Dec 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
ArborGen, the world leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees, announced that it has formed a long-term partnership with the College of Charleston Foundation to support its forest conservation and...
Dec 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
Six state forest properties (Green River, Kentenia, Kentucky Ridge, Pennyrile, Peterson, and Tygarts) owned by the Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) and four state forest properties jointly-owned by KDF and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (Big...
Dec 5, 2012 | News, News/PR
The unlikely heroes in healing the great pine forest of Central Texas are seeds that no one wanted. The Texas A&M Forest Service was making plans to dump more than a half-ton of loblolly pine seeds into a landfill when the most destructive wildfire in state...
Dec 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
One hundred years ago the Blue Ridge Mountains were covered in American chestnut trees, which made up roughly a quarter of the canopy. The chestnut blight, an imported fungal infection first noticed in New York in 1904, had by the ’50s spread throughout...
Nov 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
What’s old is now new again. The Louisiana Pacific Mill just south of Thomasville shut down three years ago due to the economy, putting hundreds out of work. Now the hiring begins as the plant gears up for reopening. “This particular project you...
