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...
Jun 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
Virginia is looking to increase agricultural and forestry trade with a new office in Europe. Gov. Bob McDonnell announced the opening of the office Thursday morning in a news release. Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore participated in an...
Jun 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
In order to meet the European Union’s goal of 20% renewables by 2020, some European utility companies are moving away from coal and replacing it with wood pellet fuel. The idea is simple: trees will regrow and recapture the carbon released in the burning of wood...
Jun 17, 2013 | News, News/PR
Hurt by the collapsing housing market, the timber industry in Georgia is showing signs of a potential rebound. The state’s $15 billion timber industry was punished during the Great Recession. Forestry industry payrolls peaked at nearly 68,000 before the housing bust,...
Jun 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
The state spent $2 million two years ago renovating the North Carolina Museum of Forestry in downtown Whiteville, so supporters were surprised by a move in the legislature to cut the museum out of the state budget. The state Senate budget omits the $357,000 needed to...
