Dec 14, 2016 | News, News/PR
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced the award of three planning grants from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) Fund. The Commonwealth awarded a total of $64,000 to projects by Floyd County and the New River Valley Regional Commission...
Mar 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Southern Regional Extension Forestry office (SREF) in partnership with the Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) has launched a one-stop website devoted to offering the most recent state and regional level data on forest economic impacts in the Southeast....
Feb 24, 2016 | News, News/PR
The forestry sector in South Carolina has an annual economic impact of $18.6 billion, employs more than 90,000 people, is the largest harvested crop at $759 million and is the No. 1 export commodity from the Port of Charleston at $1.5 billion. And yet, there remains...
Feb 8, 2016 | News, News/PR
The South Carolina Forestry Commission has raised its estimate of economic impact loss to the state’s forest products industry from last year’s historic flooding to $100 million. The agency derived its initial impact assessment of $65 million in October 2015 from...
Oct 19, 2015 | News, News/PR
South Carolina Forestry Commission officials estimate a loss of at least $65 million in the forest products industry’s economic impact because of last week’s historic flooding. The estimate was derived from forest planting and inventory data, aerial surveillance, mill...