Sep 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
It isn’t just the illegal hunter or fisherman that Department of Natural Resources officers, forestry officials and others have to worry about these days. More and more they have to be on the lookout for methamphetamine labs. “We have to deal with it a...
Sep 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials have canceled a proposal for commercial logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County that had caused concern about the potential impact on a pristine spring and trees hundreds of years old. An official with the U.S. Forest Service...
Sep 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
According to the update recently released by the Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, forest land in Kentucky covers an estimated 12.4 million acres, remaining the same from he last reported data. The report—compiled from data...
Sep 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
A local development’s efforts to clear some trees as part of a fire mitigation program directed by the Florida Division of Forestry has some residents hopping mad. And while the work has been stopped for now by the St. Johns County Environmental Division, it’s unclear...
Sep 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
A multimillion-dollar plant to process oil and fuel, more controlled burns and even using goats are some of the ideas proposed to help reduce the number of Eastern red cedar trees in Oklahoma. The hardy, invasive trees threaten the state’s landscape by choking...
Sep 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
Protesters locked themselves on Wednesday to logging equipment being used to clear trees in the northeast Texas path of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. The protest in Saltillo came as TransCanada gave Nebraska regulators a new map for routing the...