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...
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...
