Dec 1, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Thanksgiving turkey’s not even been purchased before a host of evergreen trees start heading down from the hills, to be trucked across the Southeast and up the East Coast. Rodney Buchanan’s crew has been cutting and baling fragrant Fraser firs since...
Nov 24, 2014 | News, News/PR
After a timber company makes its plywood or paper, there’s leftover sawdust and wood shavings. These leftovers are called woody biomass and in Georgia, they’re becoming a big source of renewable energy. A Pew study ranked Georgia third in the country for converting...
Nov 19, 2014 | News, News/PR
Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia’s governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast. The U.S. Forest Service...
Nov 17, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Alabama Forestry Commission is harvesting loblolly pine stands that surround Frog Pond in White Plains, leaving the entrance to the seasonal habitat marred and impassable. That is problematic for educators at Jacksonville State University, who have used the...
Nov 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has unveiled a draft management plan that would allow logging on 700,000 acres of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Officials said Wednesday the plan is aimed at preserving the woods and restoring habitat diversity. The Forest Service...
Nov 12, 2014 | News, News/PR
Arkansas’ burgeoning biomass industry got a big boost earlier this summer when in the space of 30 days two privately held investor groups announced multi-million dollar projects to produce commercially viable fuel from the state’s vast supply of forest dregs. On July...
