Jan 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
Keeping sites productive in today’s economy is an important consideration to managing forestlands, according to LSU AgCenter forestry specialist Mike Blazier. With housing starts just starting to recover from an earlier slump, the market for saw timber and plywood is...
Jan 23, 2013 | News, News/PR
While it was a mostly sunny day across the Gulf Coast Monday, that was not the case in an area of northwest Jackson County. Technicians from the U.S. Forest Service performed a prescribed burn of some 2,100 acres, starting early Monday morning and working well into...
Jan 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
Like a druggist mixing a pharmaceutical compound in a lab, Sam Negaran begins his day with a prescription. But instead of being tasked with making medicine, Negaran and his co-workers at the Florida Forest Service are reviewing a detailed plan for burning off...
Jan 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
A Hot Springs senator has proposed an increase in the tax that private timberland owners pay to help the financially troubled Arkansas Forestry Commission. Republican Sen. Bill Sample filed legislation Monday that would increase the fire protection tax from 15 cents...
Jan 14, 2013 | News, News/PR
A new report says Georgia’s forest industry added jobs in 2011 for the first time in four years. The report by Georgia Tech, conducted for the Georgia Forestry Commission, showed 46,378 workers were directly employed in forestry related jobs in 2011 — up 6.8%...
Jan 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Camp Lejeune Environmental Management Division has started lighting prescribed burns on forestry parts of the base and plans to do so for the next eight months. The controlled burning is a tool used by forest managers both on- and off-base to help maintain open,...
