Sep 26, 2012 | News, News/PR
Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive insect that destroys ash trees, has recently been found in Smith and Jefferson counties. Smith is the first county in Middle Tennessee where EAB has been found. Both cases have been confirmed by the USDA. While Jefferson County is...
Sep 24, 2012 | News, News/PR
Representatives Diane Black (R- TN-06) and Mike Michaud (D-ME-02) recently introduced the Keep the Forest and Farm in the Family Act of 2012 (H.R. 6439) to provide estate tax relief to America’s forest owners, farmers, and ranchers. Families—not the federal...
Sep 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
Gov. Nathan Deal announced in a news release recently that Sandersville is getting a $60 million wood pellet manufacturing plant. Officials say General Biofuels Georgia, LLC will create 35 jobs with its facility in Sandersville. It will have the capacity to produce...
Sep 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
It isn’t just the illegal hunter or fisherman that Department of Natural Resources officers, forestry officials and others have to worry about these days. More and more they have to be on the lookout for methamphetamine labs. “We have to deal with it a...
Sep 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials have canceled a proposal for commercial logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County that had caused concern about the potential impact on a pristine spring and trees hundreds of years old. An official with the U.S. Forest Service...
Sep 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
According to the update recently released by the Southern Research Station (SRS) Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, forest land in Kentucky covers an estimated 12.4 million acres, remaining the same from he last reported data. The report—compiled from data...
