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...
Apr 21, 2014 | News, News/PR
Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. and the Arkansas Timber Producers Assn. (ATPA) have joined forces to sponsor the next In-Woods Expo, a major demonstration/display of forestry equipment, supplies and services that ATPA launched in 2004 and held again in 2007 and 2011....
Apr 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the United States Forest Service – State and Private Forestry (USFS) today announced $678,000 in grants to support forest restoration on abandoned mine lands at sites in Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee,...
Apr 16, 2014 | News, News/PR
Nearly 21,000 tons of timber and woody debris damaged by the February ice storm in South Carolina has been burned as renewable energy at the Savannah River bioenergy plant, run by Ameresco in Aiken, SC. Ameresco, Inc. used the wood at its biomass cogeneration facility...
Apr 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
Mississippi State University scientists have created a new software program to help foresters and landowners manage hardwood timber. Emily Schultz and Tom Matney, forestry professors in the MSU Forest and Wildlife Research Center, developed the software and user’s...
