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...
May 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
Ronald Reagan once justified logging with “a tree is a tree; how many more do you need to look at?” Besides, he warned, “trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” We cringed at his biases. Yet due to forces none foresaw, Reagan’s...
May 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
The drive to develop crops for use as biofuel continues to raise questions about additional uses of forest land. A cutting edge computer model developed at North Carolina State University offers detailed insight to predict the environmental impact, along with...
May 11, 2012 | News, News/PR
A wildlife partnership seeking to protect the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake accomplished a great feat Wednesday when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the snake might qualify for the Endangered Species Act. Last August, the group filed a petition to...
May 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
Forest Resources Association Chairman Dick Carmical recently announced that FRA had hired Deb Hawkinson to replace FRA President Richard Lewis, effective as of Lewis’s scheduled retirement on July 2, 2012. “The FRA Officer Search Team was very impressed with Deb...
May 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
There have been very few scientific studies on the outdoor activities of children and youth. The few that have been published are relatively small, surveying less than 500 individuals. In 2007, to address an important gap in information about kids and the outdoors,...
