Mar 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
A wildfire jumped a road in central Florida, scorching homes and wiping out trees as it charred more than 1,900 acres, a fire official said Sunday. Some 24 structures in Marion County had been burned by what’s being called the Hopkins Prairie Fire, said U.S....
Mar 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
South Carolina Forestry Commission investigators have arrested a North Carolina man on two different charges relating to a timber deal in which the victim was underpaid. Tim Gosnell, 40, of Rutherford, North Carolina, failed to pay a Cherokee County, South Carolina...
Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
John Deere’s Worldwide Construction & Forestry Division has implemented organizational changes to enhance its focus on forestry customers. The changes improve alignment and management of the overall global forestry product portfolio and stewardship of the forestry...
Feb 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
South Carolina’s Bureau of Air Quality approved an air quality and construction permit for Austria’s Klausner, which, through its U.S.-based office, appears to be moving forward with building a sawmill on 248 acres between Rowesville and Orangeburg. An official...
Feb 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
On a cold February morning in Athens, dozens of volunteers handed out hundreds of trees. The group, Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful, hopes to help with the rebuilding process from the April 27, 2011 tornadoes. Boxes of trees from the Alabama Forestry Commission will...
Feb 20, 2013 | News, News/PR
And on the eighth day, God looked down on the earth he had created and said, “I need an old school conservationist, someone who will care for the forests I’ve created, someone who understands that I planted these forests for man’s pleasure and needs ” So, God made a...