Feb 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
Thanks to a $3 million federal grant, the N.C. Forest Service and its conservation partners have now protected more than 40 percent of a fledgling 8,000-acre Headwaters State Forest in southern Transylvania County. On Tuesday, state forestry officials announced they...
Feb 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Approximately 10,000 trees will take root in Texas soil over the next two weekends in February, helping restore the wildfire-scarred landscape of Bastrop County. Aggie Replant – a Texas A&M student organization – will converge approximately 800-strong on...
Jan 31, 2014 | News, News/PR
Texas A&M University’s Ecosystem Science and Management department’s forestry program (formerly known as the Forest Science and Rangeland Ecology and Management) is refocusing in an effort to make it a model among other schools, according to forest management and...
Jan 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Georgia timber might seem like a well-rooted asset, but thieves actually are making off with enough truckloads of trees that the state Legislature is considering tripling penalties and empowering state foresters to arrest crooks. “We’re trying to make a disincentive...
Jan 24, 2014 | News, News/PR
New words like wood pellets and biomass are providing a ray of hope for Louisiana forest landowners who have seen nothing but low prices since the downturn in the economy. Producers who attended the LSU AgCenter Forestry Forum in West Monroe on January 17th heard from...
Jan 20, 2014 | News, News/PR
Tate’s Hell State Forest, best known for its swamp, seclusion and signature species, may become the site of weekly helicopter drops of up to 50 men, careening Humvees with blacked-out headlights and foraging soldiers made to subsist off the land for seven days. Those...
