May 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Florida’s forestry authorities are confident of the state’s program to expand the amount of forested acres and ensure those lands can support the natural environment and the needs of the construction industry. About 120,000 acres of trees are replanted annually to...
Apr 29, 2013 | News, News/PR
N.C. State University officials are negotiating with a potential buyer for the 80,000-acre Hofmann Forest, a research site near Jacksonville that university officials hope to convert to cash to help support the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources....
Apr 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today as part of his trade and marketing mission to Asia the formal opening of a representative office in mainland China dedicated to increasing agricultural and forestry product exports to China, the world’s most populous...
Apr 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
The world’s largest wood pellet plant is coming to one of the smallest towns in Central Louisiana. German Pellets GmbH will begin work immediately on a $300 million plant in Urania that is expected to employ about 80 people directly and support more than 400 indirect...
Apr 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
A Texas A&M Forest Service Incident Management Team has deployed to Central Texas to aid in response and recovery efforts following a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The 18-member team — as well as the agency’s mobile command post and...
Apr 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
What if a machine could detect insects and diseases in living trees or help prevent log theft and illegal logging by tracking individual logs from the forest to the lumberyard? What about a machine that researchers could use to identify and understand the ecological...
