May 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
Auburn and Tuskegee Universities are partnering to research heir property with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Institute. “This is a major national grant with a true partnership between colleagues at Tuskegee...
May 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
A fire in several areas of the Big Cypress National Preserve east of Naples that started nine days ago has multiplied due to lightning strikes and burned more than 15,000 acres, threatening private and public buildings, roads and sensitive wildlife areas. The fires...
May 15, 2015 | News, News/PR
Take all the wood to build the frames of all the homes permitted in the past 12 months in Lee, Charlotte, Collier and Palm Beach counties — the places where Florida Weekly is distributed. Take all those two-by-four pieces of lumber, and they would stretch 26,000...
Apr 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
As enigmatic as it is deadly, “pine decline” has many Southern timber owners wondering whether the condition may be damaging their investment. South Carolina timber owners and land managers will be able to get the latest information on the problem at a daylong...
Apr 24, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Southern Forest Futures Project (SFFP) started in 2008 as an effort to study and understand the various forces reshaping the forests across the 13 states of the South over the next 50 years. Chartered by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Region and Southern...
Apr 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
Being in the South in spring is a sight — and a sound — to behold. Bright green growth is bursting from the earth and vivid buds pop from mid-story branches up into the tree tops, all backed up by birds singing a score that only nature can compose. Yes, I’m an...
