Jun 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
Greensville County will soon have a new company, Greensville Biomass, LLC. CHP Energy Engineering is developing a wood fueled (biomass) combined heat and power project that will supply electricity and steam to Boar’s Head. Excess electricity produced will either be...
Jun 4, 2012 | News, News/PR
Loggers voices were heard once again in Washington, DC as a representative for the American Loggers Council (ALC) testified at the House Agriculture Conservation, Energy and Forestry Subcommittee hearing on the 2012 Farm Bill. Schwab’s testimony included comments on...
Jun 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
A ban by China on imported South Carolina- and Virginia-grown logs is close to ending now that a small delegation of Chinese authorities has visited Virginia and the Carolinas, the S.C. Forestry Commission announced. The commission organized the meeting, partnering...
May 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Alabama Loggers Council (ALC) Annual Meeting at the Birmingham Marriott on Saturday, June 9, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of a program that has sent more than $6 million to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham and Children’s and Women‘s Hospital in Mobile....
May 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
Texas Forest Service personnel will be doing a survey throughout the next two months as part of a drought assessment program designed to get a clearer picture of the mortality rate of trees that died as a result of the 2011 drought. Work crews will go to 700 plots of...
May 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
Following an arrest initially made in March of 2011, the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is crediting the successful conviction of the crime to “Blaze,” the agency’s arson dog. Brian Keith Wilson, a 46-year-old Stapleton man, pleaded guilty on May 4 to charges of...
