Dec 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
Eastern Carolina is getting 350 new jobs thanks to an Austrian timber manufacturer. Klausner Lumber Two, a privately-owned softwood timber manufacturer, will build a state-of-the art sawmill in Halifax County. Governor Beverly Perdue says the company plans to create...
Dec 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
An artificial Christmas tree would have to be used for 20 years before its carbon footprint matches that of a farmed tree, according to a forestry professor at the University of B.C. Steve Mitchell said most artificial trees are kept only six years before fashions...
Dec 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
A new biomass power plant announced Thursday is expected to bring hundreds of related jobs and a direct $95 million investment. A statement from the office of Gov. Nathan Deal said the plant itself will bring 35 permanent jobs to Laurens County. The new biomass power...
Dec 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
ArborGen, the world leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees, announced that it has formed a long-term partnership with the College of Charleston Foundation to support its forest conservation and...
Dec 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
Six state forest properties (Green River, Kentenia, Kentucky Ridge, Pennyrile, Peterson, and Tygarts) owned by the Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) and four state forest properties jointly-owned by KDF and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (Big...
Dec 5, 2012 | News, News/PR
The unlikely heroes in healing the great pine forest of Central Texas are seeds that no one wanted. The Texas A&M Forest Service was making plans to dump more than a half-ton of loblolly pine seeds into a landfill when the most destructive wildfire in state...
