Nov 15, 2017 | News, News/PR
More than 150 wood pellet manufacturing mills operate across the U.S., many supplying the domestic woodstove pellet market with home heating fuel. More than a quarter are industrial pellet mills, grinding thousands of acres of forest into biomass for overseas export...
Nov 10, 2017 | News, News/PR
In springtime, wildflowers carpet the ground and water trickles down stream beds. In the fall, chestnuts drop from the canopy as yellow leaves flutter to the forest floor like rain showers. There are rugged bluffs, hidden bat-filled caves and an awe-inspiring...
Nov 8, 2017 | News, News/PR
In the next part of our occasional series on the timber and forest products industry – from seedlings to final products, we follow cut logs to one of West Virginia’s most sophisticated sawmills. Independent producer Jean Snedegar spent some time at Allegheny Wood...
Nov 6, 2017 | News, News/PR
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced two planning grants have been awarded from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) Fund. The Commonwealth awarded a total of $40,947 to projects by Fauquier & Loudoun Counties and Clarke County to...
Nov 3, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation that would make it harder for environmentalists to derail federal forest management plans. The measure passed 232-188. Ten Democrats supported the measure; nine Republicans opposed it. A member of the...
Nov 1, 2017 | News, News/PR
While many of us believe we are giving too much of ourselves — our time, mental exertion and personal freedoms — to our jobs, we likely have it better than workers in riskier career fields. In fact, there are several careers that put their workers’ lives in danger...
