Dec 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
One hundred years ago the Blue Ridge Mountains were covered in American chestnut trees, which made up roughly a quarter of the canopy. The chestnut blight, an imported fungal infection first noticed in New York in 1904, had by the ’50s spread throughout...
Nov 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
What’s old is now new again. The Louisiana Pacific Mill just south of Thomasville shut down three years ago due to the economy, putting hundreds out of work. Now the hiring begins as the plant gears up for reopening. “This particular project you...
Nov 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
Much-needed showers Monday left state foresters cautiously optimistic in their battle against a rash of wildfires that have ignited across East Tennessee over the past two weeks. Scattered showers in Anderson and Campbell counties added firefighters’ ongoing...
Nov 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
State firefighters are continuing to battle a wildfire today in Hawkins County that has consumed about 2,000 acres on Short Mountain near Rogersville. The blaze is one of six different fire calls answered Monday in Hawkins, Scott, Grainger, Hancock, Campbell and Knox...
Nov 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
Executives like Steve Anthony may not be particularly optimistic about the return of the building boom but Arkansas Business’ annual survey of forest products companies indicates that employment has been stable or a bit improved over the past year. Georgia-Pacific LLC...
Nov 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
Each year, thousands of volunteers across the country participate in the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in America, National Public Lands Day. Students and staff of the Oconaluftee Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center contributed over 250 hours...
