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...
Apr 10, 2013 | News, News/PR
The ancient forest found 60 feet underwater about 10 miles offshore of Alabama is much older than originally thought. I collected samples of the trees during an AL.com scuba diving expedition to the forest. Those samples were sent to the Lawrence Livermore National...
Apr 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
On Tuesday, March 26, the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Operations Research unit in Auburn, Alabama, hosted attendees of the 2013 Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute (SALHI) for an introduction to harvesting and forest operations...
Apr 3, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gulf Coast Renewable Energy, which plans to bring a multimillion-dollar wood pellet manufacturing facility to George County’s industrial park in Lucedale, Mississippi, announced today that it has decided to double the plant’s capacity. It will now produce about...
Apr 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed legislation Wednesday specifying that rating systems used in green building projects funded by the state government “shall not exclude certificate credits for forest products certified by the Sustainable Forestry...
