Jul 10, 2013 | News, News/PR
In Mississippi — and especially southwest Mississippi — timber is a growth industry. Last week, KiOR — the alternative fuels company with plans to build a cellulosic fuel production facility using pine as feedstock near Adams County’s port — announced it had begun...
Jul 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Florida State Forester Jim Karels has been named the lead investigator for the review of the tragic deaths of 19 firefighters in Arizona this week. The Arizona State Forestry Division announced the members of the Yarnell Hill Investigation Team that will investigate...
Jul 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Through what it calls The Sustainable Logging Initiative, the Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF) is making loans to qualified loggers who operate in the organization’s core lending area of the Virginias, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia. NCIF...
Jun 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
A field day and workshop held on May 23rd at the U.S. Forest Service Kisatchie National Forest Ranger District office near Natchitoches, Louisiana is among the first ventures to spark landowner interest in longleaf pine along the western edge of this species’ historic...
Jun 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
Mount Airy, North Carolina officials are moving ahead with a plan to sell timber in the city-owned Westwood Industrial Park area. After a recent presentation by a N.C. Forest Service representative, the board of commissioners is seeking to enlist the services of a...
Jun 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Virginia forestry officials are reporting widespread damage to oaks and other trees from this year’s arrival of the 17-year cicadas. Tree damage is the result of cicada females laying eggs in the thin-barked outer branches of trees and shrubs. The females slice...
