May 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
Widespread heavy rain last week was a fitting and welcome end to a relatively busy spring fire season in Virginia. Firefighters from the Virginia Department of Forestry responded to 597 wildfires and protected more than 950 homes and other structures during the spring...
May 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
There’s the clatter of machinery, the buzzing of saws and pounding of hammers — all inside a 1920s brick and wood factory, where Brown-Forman Cooperage workers make 2,700 whiskey barrels each day from white oak. With Brown-Forman investing $135 million to expand...
Apr 30, 2014 | News, News/PR
The once-abundant Eastern Hemlock provided shade and respite from the summer heat and played a key role in riverbank ecology. Now they resemble towering grey skeletons, and, gradually, their broken limbs and trunks are filling the creeks and rivers. The questions for...
Apr 28, 2014 | News, News/PR
Tens of millions of Kentucky hemlock trees are at risk from a bug just one-sixteenth of an inch in size that literally sucks the life out of the tree by feeding on the starches that are the tree’s food source. The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, which has no natural...
Apr 25, 2014 | News, News/PR
Charred trees now tower over bright green vegetation between Carolina Forest and North Myrtle Beach along S.C. 31, where the state’s most destructive wildfire burned five years ago. The fire, which spread over 19,130 acres, damaged 97 homes and destroyed 76 homes...
Apr 23, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Alabama Forestry Commission hopes it can assist private landowners in stopping beetle infestations of pine trees. The commission announced this month that it is awarding $160,000 to landowners to use prescribed burns and thinning on their pine stands to stop the...
